scholarly journals Dual Allegiance And the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa: How to Address the Issue in an Open Dialogue in the West Central Africa Division

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Wari
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
The West ◽  
West Central ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
Dual Allegiance

THE IRON AGE IN WEST CENTRAL AFRICA: RADIOCARBON DATES FROM CORISCO ISLAND (EQUATORIAL GUINEA)

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-365
Author(s):  
MANUEL SÁNCHEZ-ELIPE LORENTE ◽  
ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ-RUIBAL ◽  
JESÚS F. JORDÁ PARDO ◽  
CARLOS MARÍN SUÁREZ
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Equatorial Guinea ◽  
The West ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
West Central ◽  
Southern Cameroon ◽  
African Iron Age

AbstractOver the last few decades the number of radiocarbon dates available for West Central Africa has increased substantially, even though it is still meagre compared with other areas of the continent. In order to contribute to a better understanding of the Iron Age of this area we present and analyze a total of 22 radiocarbon dates obtained from sites from the island of Corisco (Equatorial Guinea). By comparing them with those from Equatorial Guinea, southern Cameroon, and coastal Gabon and Congo we intend to clarify the picture of the West Central African Iron Age and propose a more accurate archaeological sequence.

The States General and the Stadholder: Dutch Diplomatic Practices in the Atlantic World before the West India Company

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Meuwese
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
New Netherland ◽  
The West ◽  
West Central ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
West India Company

After a discussion of the States General and the office of stadholder as the two key institutions of Dutch sovereignty in Dutch foreign relations, this article analyzes to what extent the two institutions were involved in Dutch diplomacy with non-European peoples in the Atlantic World before the founding of the West India Company in 1621. On the Gold Coast and in West-Central Africa, regions controlled by centralized states and shaped by the presence of Iberian colonizers, Dutch traders relied on the support of the States General and the stadholder to establish alliances. On the Wild Coast of South America and in New Netherland, uncontested regions dominated by decentralized Indigenous groups, Dutch merchants did not require the diplomatic support of the States General or the stadholder but instead established alliances based on local Indigenous protocol.

Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700–1810: new estimates of volume and distribution

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The West ◽  
Commodity Production ◽  
West Central ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Demographic Effects

Using new evidence on the British, French and North American slave-carrying trades, this article seeks to revise Lovejoy's recently published estimates of the levels of slave exports from West and West-Central Africa in the eighteenth century. The figures suggest that Lovejoy's estimate of the total volume of slave exports from the west coast of Africa to America between 1700 and 1810 was probably reasonably accurate, being only 8 per cent lower than the total indicated here. However, the new data reveal temporal and coastal distributions of slave exports that differ substantially from those proposed by Lovejoy. In particular, they suggest that previous work significantly understated levels of slave exports between 1713 and 1740, and again in the 1760s and 1770s. Contrary to earlier findings, in fact, it appears that slave exports from the west coast of Africa to America in the decade prior to the War of American Independence were very similar to levels attained after 1783. Furthermore, in terms of coastal distributions, it seems that the Bight of Biafra and West-Central Africa, particularly the Loango coast, contributed much more substantially to the slave traffic to America during the early decades of the century than was previously assumed. These revisions of Lovejoy's figures have important implications for movements in slave prices in Africa and for assessing the demographic effects of the trade on the slave-supplying regions. In addition, they help to improve our understanding of the relationship between the slave trade and changes in sugar and other commodity production in America during the eighteenth century.

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