From Slavery to Aid - Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000

This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.

List of contents

1. At the desert's edge; 2. Between Sokoto and Agadez: inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century; 3. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899-1917; 4. Governing labour - slave, forced and migrant, 1918-45; 5. The development of 'development', 1946-83; 6. Fighting against the desert, 1984-2000; 7. Between development and dependence.

About the author

Benedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. She is editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (2009) and Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Anne Haour, 2010), and author of many articles focusing on slavery and emancipation in Africa and on international aid to Niger.

Summary

From Slavery to Aid takes two major themes of African historiography - the death of slavery and the birth of aid - and constructs a social history of the Ader region, an understudied region of the West African Sahel in today's Republic of Niger.

Product details

• Authors: Benedetta Rossi, Benedetta (University of Birmingham) Rossi, Rossi Benedetta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781107545113
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54511-3
• No. of pages: 403
• Series: African Studies; African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Niger, HISTORY / Africa / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Social and cultural anthropology, African History, Slavery and abolition of slavery