The Upper Guinea Coast in Global PerspectiveJacqueline Knörr, Christoph Kohl For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social phenomena. These accounts show a region that, while still grappling with the legacies of colonialism and the slave trade, is both shaped by and an important actor within ever-denser global networks, exhibiting consistent transformation and creative adaptation. |
Contents
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The Cases of GuineaBissau and Sri Lanka | 40 |
Chapter 3 Freetowns YorubaModelled Secret Societies as Transnational and Transethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration | 58 |
Part II Diasporic Entanglements | 75 |
Debating Emigrants Citizenship and Role in Guinean Politics | 77 |
Diaspora within the Nation | 95 |
Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the Atlantic World | 157 |
Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the Upper Guinea Coast | 174 |
Youth and Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Postwar Liberia and Sierra Leone | 197 |
Chapter 11 Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Postwar Sierra Leone | 222 |
Chapter 12 Sierra Leone Child Soldiers and Global Flows of Child Protection Expertise | 241 |
Part IV Interregional Integration | 253 |
Transnational Ethnic Identity and Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Coast Border Area | 255 |
Transnational Connections and Home Politics in the TwentiethCentury Gambia | 280 |
Interaction Integration and the Forging of an Immigration Policy | 116 |
Creole Stratification of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return Visits | 135 |
Part III Travelling Models | 155 |
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