West African studies. Mary Henrietta Kingsley

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066119256

Table of Contents

       PREFACE TO THE READER

       WEST AFRICAN STUDIES

       CHAPTER I

       INTRODUCTORY

       CHAPTER II

       SIERRA LEONE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

       CHAPTER III

       AFRICAN CHARACTERISTICS

       CHAPTER IV

       FISHING IN WEST AFRICA.

       CHAPTER V.

       FETISH.

       CHAPTER VI

       SCHOOLS OF FETISH

       CHAPTER VII

       FETISH AND WITCHCRAFT

       CHAPTER VIII

       AFRICAN MEDICINE

       CHAPTER IX

       THE WITCH DOCTOR

       CHAPTER X

       EARLY TRADE IN WEST AFRICA

       CHAPTER XI

       FRENCH DISCOVERY OF WEST AFRICA

       CHAPTER XII

       COMMERCE IN WEST AFRICA

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA

       CHAPTER XV

       MORE OF THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM

       CHAPTER XVI

       THE CLASH OF CULTURES

       CHAPTER XVII

       CHAPTER XVIII

       AFRICAN PROPERTY

       APPENDICES

       APPENDIX I

       A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVES OF THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR CUSTOMS, RELIGION, TRADE, &c. BY M. le COMTE C. N. de CARDI.

       NATIVE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN BENIN, AND RELIGION

       ORIGIN OF THE BENIN CITY PEOPLE

       BRASS RIVER

       RELIGION

       NEW CALABAR

       BONNY AND THE PEPPLE FAMILY

       ANDONI RIVER AND ITS INHABITANTS.

       OPOBO RIVER.

       KWO IBO.

       OLD CALABAR.

       SECRET SOCIETIES AND FESTIVALS IN OLD CALABAR—AND THE COUNTRIES UP THE CROSS RIVER

       APPENDIX II

       PART I

       A VOYAGE TO THE AFRICAN OIL RIVERS TWENTY-FIVE