A year after the great African explorer Dr David Livingstone’s death in 1873, his friend Horace Waller published an edited version of his diaries. In his introduction to ‘The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death’ Mr Waller remarks ‘Whilst in the Manyema country he ran out of note-books, [...]
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Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary
Posted in Contemporary History, Imperial History, tagged Africa, British Empire, East African Slave Trade, Imperial History, Livingstone, Livingstone 1871 Field Diary, Nyangwe Massacre, The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project on 16/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
An East African Israel
Posted in Imperial History, tagged Africa, British Empire, East Africa, Imperial History, Israel, Jewish Settlement, Kenya, Sir Charles Eliot, Uganda on 30/06/2011 | Leave a Comment »
During the first few years of the 20th century, British authorities were speculating into the feasibility of establishing a Jewish settlement on the Gwas Ngishu plateau in the British East Africa Protectorate. In this regard the Commissioner of British East Africa, the multi-linguist Sir Charles Eliot, produced a memorandum contemplating the potential consequences of establishing, what [...]
McLeod of the Niger
Posted in Imperial History, tagged Africa, Anti-Slavery Squadron, British Empire, Imperial History, Lyons McLeod, Victorian History on 21/08/2010 | Leave a Comment »
An old soldier neglected by an ungenerous country. (The Morning Leader, October 1892) English governments have a rather unpleasant reputation for neglecting the humbler heroes of the nation; and another instance of the kind which goes to support the public impression has been brought before the notice of The Morning Leader. The story of Capt. Lyons [...]
La Guerre d’Algérie
Posted in Imperial History, Violence, tagged Algeria, Algerian War, Counterinsurgency, Decolonisation, Empire, French Empire, Imperial History, Insurgency, Violence, War on 09/06/2010 | 1 Comment »
“War is an act of violence that has no limit.”[1] Upon Algerian independence in 1962, France and its former colony could look back at an armed conflict that had lasted for eight years, cost the lives of close to half a million people and radically transformed the French Republic itself. When Algerian demands for civil [...]
The Congo Free State – A Latifundium of Terror
Posted in Economic History, Imperial History, Violence, tagged Africa, Henry Morton Stanley, Imperial History, King Leopold II, Rubber, The Congo Free State on 16/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘Leopold II…has knit adventurers, traders and missionaries of many races into one band of men, under the most illustrious of modern travellers (H.M. Stanley) to carry into the interior of Africa new ideas of law, order, humanity, and protection of the natives.’[1] The Daily Telegraph, 22nd of October 1884 Some of the worst atrocities committed [...]
The Sierra Leone Civil War
Posted in Contemporary History, Imperial History, Violence, tagged Africa, Conflict Diamonds, Imperial History, Intervention, Liberia, Misgovernment, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Civil War, Violence, War on 12/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
As a direct consequence of the abolitionist movement’s campaigns in Britain, the settlement called Freetown was founded 1787 for emancipated slaves. Initially consisting of the so-called black poor from Britain and Nova Scotia, it later would become home for the liberated Africans captured by the British anti-slavery squadron. Assuming status as a crown colony in [...]
Fighting Season in Afghanistan
Posted in Imperial History, Violence, tagged Afghanistan, Casualties, Imperial History, Intervention, Violence on 05/04/2010 | 1 Comment »
Is there any relationship between labour demand in Afghanistan’s agricultural sector and Taliban activity? Co-variation between casualty data and temperature statistics suggest there might be a link. There is a clear upward trend in NATO fatalities in this particular conflict, most notably 2009 saw a substantial increase in annual casualties, 520 were killed, a growth [...]
Back to the Future for Africa?
Posted in Economic History, Imperial History, tagged Africa, China, Chinese Iron Ore Imports, Chinese Steel Production, Commodity Demand, Economic Development, Imperial History, Transportation Infrastructure on 04/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
The partition had left the European powers in control of the African continent, what followed was resource extraction in order to make the venture profitable. The industrial revolution had greatly enhanced the world’s demand for raw materials, commodities such as cotton, rubber, coal, iron ore, copper and others had increased enough in value to justify [...]
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