ABSTRACT This thesis informs the Socio-Economic and Political Role of Prison Institution in Zanzibar from 1890 to 1963. It, specifically, informs how prison was operated. It then informs the socio-economic, as well as the political role of colonial prison in Zanzibar. The Marxist theory of state supplemented with Foucault Disciplinary Approach guided in generating and analysing data from primary and secondary sources. It is argued that operation of colonial prison was not accidental but it m...
ABSTRACT Policing as a profession from its inception in Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) had been a profession reserved for men. This is because policing in all the former British colonies imitated the British style of policing which was base on the British Victorian Ideology. The purpose of this research is to investigate policewomen’s contributions to the development of the Ghana Police Force. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources including archival documents from the Public Recor...
ABSTRACT This research examines the history of coffee production in Kiambu County between 1912 and 1978 basing on three objectives; to investigate the origin and development of coffee production in Kiambu County from 1912-1950, to examine the role of Africans in coffee production in Kiambu County from 1950-1963 and analyse the contribution of coffee production to the economic transformation of Kiambu County from 1963-1978. Coffee growing was introduced by the Missionaries and later on adopte...
ABSTRACT The mid-twentieth century undoubtedly marked a watershed in African history and historiography. One striking feature of the period was the emergence of a new crop of African historians who were poised to challenge the hegemony of Eurocentric scholarship. Kenneth O. Dike, a prominent Nigerian historian blazed the trail with his magnum opus Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885. In Ghana, the trailblazer was Prof. Albert Adu Boahen who was a teacher, scholar and an astute po...
ABSTRACT Traditional African societies are not oblivious to examinations. The introduction of formal ed-ucation to British West Africa, however with school examinations, date back to the eighteenth century. This system brought a different understanding of assessing learners with its own unique form of examination, administered after a period of study. The aim of this study is to provide a historical survey of second cycle external examinations and the two common inter-twined problems of annua...
ABSTRACT Land urbanisation are two major issues that are critical to the development of a mega city like Lagos.
ABSTRACT The major factor in the history of the eastern Niger Delta is not just the increase of the trans Atlantic trade from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
ABSTRACT Development initiatives in post-independence Africa have been influenced by the social, economic and political conditions of the continent as well as the dominant development thoughts at different times. Africa has experienced a very low level of economic development since the 1970s compared to other regions of the world, and in response, several development initiatives have been articulated since the 1980s which reflect the continent’s preferred development agenda. The African ec...
Abstract This study is about the Digawa Muslims of Danzomo town in Sule Tankarkar Local Government of Jigawa State, Nigeria. The Digawa Muslims are also found in other areas of the State such as ‘Yandamo, Jikai, Umarni, Babbansara, Digawar-Tudu, Saidawa, Dorai, Galma, Buduma and Zai. Data for this study were collected through primary and secondary sources. Primary data was collected using random oral interviews both individual and groups. The Digawa are not ethnic group, but a religious gr...
ABSTRACT The provision of modern health services was a legacy of colonial administration in Africa. Yet, little attention has been paid to the history of medical and health development in Africa, especially Ibadan, which benefited greatly from the colonial health policy. This study, therefore, examined the changing trends in the growth and development of colonial medical and health services in Ibadan between 1900 and 1960 with a view to highlighting the impact of colonial medicine in the city...
ABSTRACT This study is primarily concerned with historical developments that cover a period of over three hundred years, with the purpose of establishing the evolution of a state system among the Gbagyi that inhabit an area referred to as the River Kaduna valley. It was however, not in doubt that the Gbagyi settlements along the River Kaduna never at the earliest times succeeded in forming large centralized political settlements. They were confederate states, or what is popularly referred to ...
The provision of modern health services was a legacy of colonial administration in Africa. Yet, little attention has been paid to the history of medical and health development in Africa, especially Ibadan, which benefited greatly from the colonial health policy. This study, therefore, examined the changing trends in the growth and development of colonial medical and health services in Ibadan between 1900 and 1960 with a view to highlighting the impact of colonial medicine in the city. A...
ABSTRACT This study examines the causes of the Nawuri-Gonja conflict, which broke out in 1991 over allodial land rights. In Alfai, as is the case of other Ghanaian societies, the modes of measuring allodial land rights are embedded in the historical traditions of the people. By right of autochthony and autonomy, allodial land rights in Alfai in the pre-colonial period resided in the Nawuri. However, Alfai’s encounters with the colonial enterprise led to the evolution of new constructs of al...
ABSTRACT Jukun-Tiv relation has increasingly gone through disturbing phases over the years, especially as from the inception of colonial rule in the area. Every turning point appears to alter the level of cooperation between the two communities in the present day Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. This unfolding trend gives the impression that the two communities never enjoyed peaceful intercourse. This assumption has been examined and proved to be erroneous. A very thorough appra...
Introduction All over the world, democracy have been embraced, while principles have assumed as the main pillar in selecting political leaders in a democratic society. In West Africa, undoubtedly, the most appropriate platform for selecting leaders is through elective principles. This process of selecting leaders has been in use, in the selected West African Countries: Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia. Historically, these three West African States have many things in common: located in the same re...