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Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.A good resource for those seeking to understand colonialism’s impact on Indigenous populations.
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Discover how European colonization across the many regions in Africa dramatically altered the continent and the daily lived experiences of its peoples.
Daily Life in Colonial Africa explores nine facets of daily life in the European-colonized African continent, such as domestic, economic, political, and religious life. Examples of everyday people—farmers forced to switch to cash crops, people of faith melding native traditions and European Christian doctrine on beliefs about the afterlife, storytellers using allegory to discreetly challenge colonial rule—show how colonialization impacted every aspect of life for Africa’s indigenous people, as well as how they adapted to new ways of life while maintaining their cultural roots. Alongside the main text, helpful additional resources such as a timeline of the colonization of Africa and a glossary of terms provide useful context for understanding what life in this period of history was truly like for the many different people and groups affected by Africa’s colonization.
Preface
Introduction
Timeline
Glossary
1. Domestic Life
2. Economic Life
3. Intellectual Life
4. Material Life
5. Political Life
6. Recreational Life
7. New Forms of Songs
8. Religious Life
9. Resistance to Colonialism
10. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
What was life really like for ordinary people throughout history? How did they raise their children? What did they do for fun? From sexual mores in ancient Egypt to resistance music in modern Latin America, and from the fashion sense of the Mongols to the importance of film in modern India, the world comes alive in this award-winning series.
· Exploration of everything from religion and food to sickness and sports gives readers a window into all aspects of social history
· Sources such as photos, recipes, sheet music, rules for games, song lyrics, and maps bring the past to life
· A timeline enables readers to visualize the sequence of events and see connections and patterns through history
This series was previously entitled The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History series. To view titles published in this series before 2024, please visit: bloomsbury.com/series/the-greenwood-press-daily-life-through-history-series