By Gibril R. Cole
ISBN-10: 082142047X
ISBN-13: 9780821420478
The e-book hence demonstrates the complicated nature of the interactions among the recent arrivals (the ex-slaves) and the older populations that started to produce a shared experience of identification past the oft-repeated narrative of abolition, admiralty, and the relocation of the trans-Atlantic ex-slave inhabitants in West Africa. by way of concentrating on Islam within the making of Krio society in Sierra Leone, this e-book additionally is helping recontextualize creolization in West Africa and elsewhere.
The publication bargains a nuanced exam of West African background within the postabolition and colonial sessions, together with a severe examine the slave exchange after 1807, the period of steamboat trade, and the function of trained West African Krio throughout varied transcolonial borders within the past due 19th and early 20th centuries. Its exploration of the Islamic presence in precolonial Sierra Leone is a departure from the hitherto limited scholarly method of the research of the stumble upon among Christianity and Islam within the sector. obtainable sufficient for use as a huge advent to the heritage of a West African society for undergraduates, it's also cutting edge sufficient, theoretically and empirically, to be of worth to scholars.
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