West African Challenge to Empire - Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War

West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa.

Summary

West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915–16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Royer, Mahir Saul
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2002
• EAN: 9780821414132
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1413-2
• No. of pages: 417
• Series: Western African Studies (Hardc; Western African Studies; Western African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous