West African City by Michael Banton

Author:Michael Banton [Banton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, General
ISBN: 9781351042284
Google: hxBqDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-16T03:39:57+00:00

1T. J. Aldridge, A Transformed Colony, London, 1910, p. 81.

1For an interesting description of Lebanese traders in Conakry see O. Dollfus, ‘Conakry en 1951–2. Etude Humaine et Economique’, Etudes Guinéennes, 10–11, 1952, pp. 80–3.

1Bauer, op. cit., p. 164.

1R. P. M. Davis, History of the Sierra Leone Battalion of the R.W.A.F.F., Freetown 1932, p. 111.

2See Kuczynski, op. cit., p. 278.

3Cf. André Arcin, La Guinée Française, Paris, 1907, pp. 539–40.

4Kuczynski, op. cit., pp. 277–81.

1E. M. Richardson and G. R. Collins, ‘Economic and Social Survey of the Rural Areas of the Colony of Sierra Leone’: a report to the Colonial Social Science Research Council. Colonial Office Research Dept. (unpublished), p. 29.

2Sierra Leone: A Modern Portrait, London, 1954, p. 26.

3For migration from the rural areas to Freetown consult G. R. Collins’ article in the I.N.C.I.D.I. (International Institute of Differing Civilizations) volume, The ‘Pull’ exerted by Urban and Industrial Centres in countries in course of Industrialisation, Brussels, 1953.

1Op. cit., pp. 164–5.

2A konko is a lean-to built on to an existing house.

3Old and New in Sierra Leone, London, 1945, p. 79.

4An elector had to be (i) owner or occupier of property of value of £10 per annum in urban districts, or £6 in rural districts, or (ii) in receipt of a salary of not less than £100 per annum in urban districts or £60 in rural districts and be able to read and write in English or Arabic, Orders in Council, Vol, IV, Freetown, 1946, pp. 1,342–3.

1Quoted from the Weekly News, 10 February 1951, by Richardson and Collins, op. cit.

1Op. cit., pp. 398–9.

1Sierra Leone Daily Mail, 23 October 1953.

1The Two P’s or Politics for the People, by Laminah Sankoh (pseudonym of the Rev. E. N. Jones), Freetown, n.d. (c. 1952), p. 26.

2In this book I have not substituted the term ‘Provinces’ for ‘Protectorate’ because up to the time when I carried out my research the older outlook still prevailed.

1Op. cit., p. 35. For Lewis’ account of the Creoles, see pp. 1–40, and of Krio, their dialect, pp. 41–51.

2T. R. Griffith, ‘Sierra Leone—Past, Present and Future’, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. XIII, 1881–2, p. 83.

3‘British West Africa and the Trade of the Interior’, Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. XX, 1888–9, P. 97.

4Travels in West Africa, London, 1898, pp. 16–17.

5Wanderings in West Africa, London, 1863, Vol. I, p. 209; cf. p. 239.

1Lewis, op. cit. p. 40.

2‘The Problem of Negro Culture’ in the Unesco volume Interrelations of Cultures, Paris, 1953, at pp. 352 and 369.

3Op. cit., p. 529.

1I made no systematic observations of inter-group relations during my stay in Freetown. This section is a reconstruction of my impressions, avowedly speculative, and included only because they may help a future investigator to formulate some useful hypotheses.

2The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, London, 1930.

3W. Stark, ‘Capitalism, Calvinism, and the Rise of Modern Science’, The Sociological Review, Vol. XLIII, 1951, Section 5.

1Surprising disregard is often shown in Freetown for the value of time. On one occasion I had to wait forty minutes to cash a cheque at the local branch of a British bank, and on another occasion twenty minutes.

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