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Similarly, Africans' non-combat role kept military and non-military supply lines open and whirring during the war and facilitated victory. Also of extraordinary importance was Africa's economic role in the form of voluntary financial contributions, tax revenues, food production, export crop, and mineral production that partly undergirded the war effort. Not least, some African ports facilitated the movement of soldiers and war materials to disparate war theatres. The papers in this volume speak to these dimensions of Africa's contribution to the war and more. Why did Africans participate in a mostly European War? What manner of men and women were these colonial subjects who are the unsung heroes of the war? What exactly did they do, and where? How did the war affect the lives of the colonial subjects who became pawns in a war between European powers? One significant unintended outcome of the war was that it accelerated Africa's decolonization process, mobilizing Africans against the restrictive economic policies and broken promises of the colonial powers. The wartime policies increased social discontent and fused with the grievances of a disparate group - workers, trade unionists, farmers, market women, traders, miners, urban dwellers, war veterans and a new class of poor people - to resist a colonial system weakened by the Second World War.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744878403857,"sku":"NGR9781569027547","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1569027544.jpg?v=1750927006"},{"product_id":"historical-dictionary-of-ghana-book-edmund-abaka-9781538145241","title":"Historical Dictionary of Ghana","description":"Ghana, the former British West African colony of the Gold Coast, is known for its rich agricultural, mineral, and petroleum resources. Ghana has made tremendous strides in all areas of life and has become the gateway to West Africa, if not all of Africa. Observers now cite the country’s achievement of economic recovery, political stability, and democratized governance as an example worthy of emulation by other African countries. Historical Dictionary of Ghana, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ghana.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51688024932625,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51688026341649,"sku":"NIN9781538145241","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52584905048337,"sku":"NLS9781538145241","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1538145243.jpg?v=1751086587"},{"product_id":"asante-world-book-edmund-abaka-9781032004778","title":"The Asante World","description":"The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the \"world the Asante made.\"   By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente\/adinkra cloth types and their associated symbols, proverbs, and drum language. The Asante World explores the Asante origins of Jamaican maroons, Asante secular government, contemporary politics of progress, governance through the institution of Ahemaa or Queenmothers, epidemiology and disease, and education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.   Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52586393665809,"sku":"NLS9781032004778","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032004778.jpg?v=1761054567"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-edmund-abaka.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}