Berengario Cermenati Among the Igbirra (Ebira) of Nigeria


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Chapters: A calamity in Okene - The setting: political and ecclesiastical -- The early years (1899-1917) -- Harmony and discord in Igbirraland -- The Oka Palaver -- Ibrahima, Atta of the Igbirra, in the dock -- Berengario Cermenati in the dock -- The Bangedi uprising and its aftermath.




Berengario Cermenati Among the Ebira of Nigeria


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Berengario Cermenati among the Igbirra (Ebira) of Nigeria(A study in colonial, missionary and local politics, 1897-1925)







Banished potentates


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Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French – with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco – from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.







The Story of the Great War


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The Irish Missionary Movement


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The British in Northern Nigeria


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East African Doctors


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John Iliffe's 1998 book is a history of the African medical profession in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from the earliest training of modern medical staff in the 1870s to the present day. Based on extensive research, and dealing exclusively with African doctors, it offers an understanding of professionalisation in the Third World. It describes the recruitment and education of doctors, their understanding and practice of modern medicine, the struggle for international recognition of their qualifications and efforts to develop East African medical systems after independence, and their experiences during a period of political and economic difficulty. The book ends with an account of the significant work of East African doctors in the study and control of AIDS. This is a major contribution to the social history of Africa and to the social history of medicine more broadly.