West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War

by Mahir Saul and Patrick Royer

Book Overview

West African Challenge to Empire examines the anticolonial war in the Volta and Bani region in 1915-16. It was the largest challenge that the French ever faced in their West African colonial empire, and one of the largest armed oppositions to colonialism anywhere in Africa. How such a movement could be organized in the face of European technological superiority despite the fact that this region is generally described as having consisted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821414143
• ISBN13: 9780821414149
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"