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Shadows of Empire in West Africa

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

Editors: Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo; Smith, Victoria Ellen

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39282-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-39281-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 8, 2017

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: Interpreting West Africa’s Forts and Castles

Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo; Smith, Victoria Ellen

Pages: 1 –31

[This introduction to the collection provides a broad context for the presence of European forts and castles on the coast of West Africa and surveys the scholarly works that have been produced with the objective of documenting and interpreting their history. The editors argue that there is a need...
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Chapter 2Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa? Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic Entanglements and National Memory

Zaugg, Roberto

Pages: 33 –73

[Between the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, the fortress of Grossfriedrichsburg in Pokesu (Princes Town, Ghana) was a lively hub of Atlantic entanglements, serving first as the main factory of the Brandenburg African CompanyBrandenburg African Company (BAC) and subsequently as...
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Chapter 3‘Far from My Native Land, and Far from You’: Reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the Nineteenth Century

Smith, Victoria Ellen

Pages: 75 –106

[This chapter focuses on how the British have imagined themselves at Cape Coast Castle through enduring justificatory narrative that marginalised the slave trade and colonial rule. It reflects on what continued to bring the British to Cape Coast after the slave trade, the realities that were...
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Chapter 4Viewed from a Distance: Eighteenth-Century Images of Fortifications on the Coast of West Africa

Mann, Emily

Pages: 107 –136

[In the early 1700s, a series of publications based on European sources provided English-speaking audiences with images of the fortifications that had been built and fought over in West Africa. They include Willem Bosman’s New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1705), William...
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Chapter 5Illusions of Grandeur and Protection: Perceptions and (Mis)Representations of the Defensive Efficacy of European-Built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, Seventeenth–Early Nineteenth Centuries

Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo; von Hesse, Hermann W.

Pages: 137 –167

[This paper explores how individuals and polities on the Gold Coast (mis)understood their relationships with their European allies and how the presence of rivalling European fortifications and settlements in African localities constituted (dis)advantages in inter-African as well as...
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Chapter 6Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, Trade and Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast

Adu-Boahen, Kwabena

Pages: 169 –199

[From the late fifteenth century, Womenagency in a cultural confluenceEuropean traders operated from fortresses established along the West African coast. In their trading activities and in most social, political and general cultural communication, they dealt, almost exclusively, with the males...
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Chapter 7Fort Metal Cross: Commercial Epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast

Biveridge, Fritz

Pages: 201 –237

[This chapter investigates the consequences of the English presence at Gold CoastDixcove (Efiema) and how the encounter impacted the indigenous AhantaAhanta (Ahanta-land) who occupy Dixcove and the local economy from 1620 to 1900 A.D. Archaeological, historical and ethno-historical sources...
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Chapter 8European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions

Wellington, Henry Nii Adziri; Oppong, Rexford Assasie

Pages: 239 –272

[The opening section of the chapter takes a broad look at the fortifications in West Africa as architectural designs reflecting European philosophy and spatial conceptualisation. The second section then presents a prototypical architectural component of the European Fortifications, namely the...
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Chapter 9A Theatre of Memory for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and Its Museum

Jeychandran, Neelima

Pages: 273 –295

[This paper examines how colonial fortresses in coastal Ghana and the museums inside them function as memoryscapes where narratives of the pasts are represented and reproduced in the context of the exhibition space. Although small in area, museums within the former “slave castles” play a crucial...
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Chapter 10Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the “Door of no Return”. President Barack Obama and Family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009

Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo; Ayesu, Ebenezer

Pages: 297 –326

[President Barack Hussein Obama’s one-day state visit, with his family, to Ghana in July 2009 was in many ways a journey that fused official engagements and a deeply private quest. This chapter explores the underlying political motivations, historical meanings, symbolisms and paradoxes of the...

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