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Pagans and Politicians (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Crowder, Michael

 
9781032568515: Pagans and Politicians (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032568518 ISBN 13: 9781032568515
Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Originally published in 1959, this book charts the journey made by the author and a Creole journalist from Sierra Leone across West Africa at a time when a political, economic and cultural revolution was taking place. It was not so much the exotic tribal Africa as the new Africa of the politicians, the aspects characteristic of the period of transition that fascinated Crowder. He was struck by the differences produced by years of British and French rule. He talked with governors and the governed wherever he went. Part travelogue, part academic study, this is a fascinating portrait of West Africa on the cusp of monumental change in the second half of the 20th Century.

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About the Author

Michael Crowder worked for most of his adult life in West africa, mainly in Nigeria. He was visiting Professor at the University of Lagos, Professor of History at Ahmadu Bello University and founder of the Centre of Nigerial Cultural Studies. He was Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ife and visiting lecturer at the UCLA Berkeley and Columbia University. In 1964 he was made an Officer of the National Order of Senegal.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032568518
ISBN 13 
9781032568515
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230