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West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native: And a Vindication of the African Race

West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native: And a Vindication of the African Race

Horton, James Africanus Beale

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1108028594
ISBN13: 9781108028592
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 2 2011
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book, first published in 1868, became the best-known work of medical officer and writer James Africanus Beale Horton (1835-1883), who was born in Sierra Leone to parents of Igbo descent. He was chosen by the British to train as an army medical officer and attended King's College, London, and Edinburgh University. He returned to West Africa and published his doctoral thesis, which was a medical topography of the region; subsequent works called for health reforms. West African Countries, however, went beyond medicine. In it Horton refutes the derogatory racial theories about Africans rife in Victorian Britain and its empire, and he examines the possibility of self-government and how it might function in Sierra Leone and other territories in West Africa, foreshadowing the decolonisation that took place almost one hundred years later.

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