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Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa: Fulani Migrations and Land Conflict
Contributor(s): Mbah, Emmanuel (Author)
ISBN: 1138239550     ISBN-13: 9781138239555
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - General
- History | Africa - Central
- History | Africa - West
Dewey: 967.110
LCCN: 2016030844
Series: Global Africa
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 186 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
- Cultural Region - West Africa
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Economic, political, and ethnic favoritism are common themes in the historiography of colonial Africa. Land ownership and control, and the abilities of the respective landscapes to sustain Africa's growing population amidst the throes of climate change, have created recurrent identity crises throughout Africa.

The book's chapters elevate the discussion on recurrent environmental issues, the problems of contested ownership of land, autochthonism as well as the interaction and blending of different cultures in a restricted geographical space. The study highlights a neglected aspect of the history of Fulani migrations in West Africa - the colonial extension of the Fulani into the Southern Cameroons (the Fulani as a group did not exist in the region prior to 1916). Therefore the introduction of the Fulani in the region, at a time when ethnic affinities and control over land had already crystallized, resulted in problems of a wider magnitude that have been carefully and meticulously addressed in this book.

Environment and Identity Politics in Colonial Africa makes a major contribution to colonial African historiography. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Modern Africa, African Environmental History and Colonial History