Lamin Sanneh
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195189605
- eISBN:
- 9780199868582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189605.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter expounds the role of Bible translation in the indigenous awakening and local adaptation. It describes Nigeria's Mojola Agbebi and his call for liturgical renewal in Christianity's ...
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This chapter expounds the role of Bible translation in the indigenous awakening and local adaptation. It describes Nigeria's Mojola Agbebi and his call for liturgical renewal in Christianity's African phase. The chapter returns to the story of Christian Independency and charismatic awakening, with a discussion of social ministry and philanthropy. The role of New World Africans in the inter‐continental transmission of revival religion is reviewed alongside post‐Western developments in World Christianity, as is the impact of vernacular Bible translation and mother tongue education. The chapter rounds up the work of missions with a synopsis of the work of John Philip, Walter Miller, and Samuel Ajayi Crowther in the advancement of African rights.Less
This chapter expounds the role of Bible translation in the indigenous awakening and local adaptation. It describes Nigeria's Mojola Agbebi and his call for liturgical renewal in Christianity's African phase. The chapter returns to the story of Christian Independency and charismatic awakening, with a discussion of social ministry and philanthropy. The role of New World Africans in the inter‐continental transmission of revival religion is reviewed alongside post‐Western developments in World Christianity, as is the impact of vernacular Bible translation and mother tongue education. The chapter rounds up the work of missions with a synopsis of the work of John Philip, Walter Miller, and Samuel Ajayi Crowther in the advancement of African rights.
Padraic X. Scanlan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300217445
- eISBN:
- 9780300231526
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300217445.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African History
Freedom’s Debtors is a history of the British movement to abolish the slave trade, told through the lens of the history of early colonial Sierra Leone. After the abolition of the British slave trade ...
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Freedom’s Debtors is a history of the British movement to abolish the slave trade, told through the lens of the history of early colonial Sierra Leone. After the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, Sierra Leone became the judicial, military, and economic capital of British efforts to interdict slave ships. British antislavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. The colony was closely connected to the elite leaders of the abolitionist movement in Britain, and became closely identified with their business interests. This history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone offers insight into how antislavery policies were used to justify colonialism and reframes a moment considered a watershed in British public morality as the beginning of morally ambiguous and exploitative colonial history. From Sierra Leone, it is easier to see British antislavery as it really was: acquisitive, devoted to coercive and gradual schemes for emancipation, militarised, and shot through with imperial ambitions.Less
Freedom’s Debtors is a history of the British movement to abolish the slave trade, told through the lens of the history of early colonial Sierra Leone. After the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, Sierra Leone became the judicial, military, and economic capital of British efforts to interdict slave ships. British antislavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. The colony was closely connected to the elite leaders of the abolitionist movement in Britain, and became closely identified with their business interests. This history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone offers insight into how antislavery policies were used to justify colonialism and reframes a moment considered a watershed in British public morality as the beginning of morally ambiguous and exploitative colonial history. From Sierra Leone, it is easier to see British antislavery as it really was: acquisitive, devoted to coercive and gradual schemes for emancipation, militarised, and shot through with imperial ambitions.
Michael Wright, David Clark, and Jennifer Hunt
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199206803
- eISBN:
- 9780191730474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206803.003.0016
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
The Republic of Sierra Leone (population 5.88 million) is a country in Western Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of 71, 740 km 2 and its boundaries border the countries of ...
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The Republic of Sierra Leone (population 5.88 million) is a country in Western Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of 71, 740 km 2 and its boundaries border the countries of Guinea and Liberia. In Sierra Leone, palliative care services are provided by The Shepherd's Hospice (TSH), Freetown. The range of services includes home-based care, inpatient care (24 h symptom control), outpatients' clinics (twice a week), education and training, orphans and vulnerable children's programme, Women's Wellness Project (WWP) and advocacy. As an NGO, TSH relies on fundraising and charitable donations to meet its costs. The national and professional organizations include the Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL), and Friends of The Shepherd's Hospice (UK). TSH takes patients from Freetown and parts of the western area of Sierra Leone. The chapter then deals with the history and development of hospice-palliative care in Sierra Leone.Less
The Republic of Sierra Leone (population 5.88 million) is a country in Western Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. It covers an area of 71, 740 km 2 and its boundaries border the countries of Guinea and Liberia. In Sierra Leone, palliative care services are provided by The Shepherd's Hospice (TSH), Freetown. The range of services includes home-based care, inpatient care (24 h symptom control), outpatients' clinics (twice a week), education and training, orphans and vulnerable children's programme, Women's Wellness Project (WWP) and advocacy. As an NGO, TSH relies on fundraising and charitable donations to meet its costs. The national and professional organizations include the Christian Health Association of Sierra Leone (CHASL), and Friends of The Shepherd's Hospice (UK). TSH takes patients from Freetown and parts of the western area of Sierra Leone. The chapter then deals with the history and development of hospice-palliative care in Sierra Leone.
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853233770
- eISBN:
- 9781846317293
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317293.001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
The Sierra Leone expedition of 1786–1787, which saw a group of black people from London build a settlement in West Africa, is considered one of the most controversial episodes in the history of ...
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The Sierra Leone expedition of 1786–1787, which saw a group of black people from London build a settlement in West Africa, is considered one of the most controversial episodes in the history of blacks in Britain. It raises a number of important questions, such as how these black people had come to Britain, how they were perceived by the native white population, or why some of them left Britain and founded a new community in Africa. The settlement established by these so-called ‘Black Poor’ from London would become Freetown, the current capital of the modern state of Sierra Leone. Its history has long been interpreted in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade, a notion challenged by Eric Williams in his 1944 book Capitalism and Slavery. This book explores the different interpretations regarding the settlement formed by London's Black Poor and the role of the Sierra Leone Company in running the settlement.Less
The Sierra Leone expedition of 1786–1787, which saw a group of black people from London build a settlement in West Africa, is considered one of the most controversial episodes in the history of blacks in Britain. It raises a number of important questions, such as how these black people had come to Britain, how they were perceived by the native white population, or why some of them left Britain and founded a new community in Africa. The settlement established by these so-called ‘Black Poor’ from London would become Freetown, the current capital of the modern state of Sierra Leone. Its history has long been interpreted in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade, a notion challenged by Eric Williams in his 1944 book Capitalism and Slavery. This book explores the different interpretations regarding the settlement formed by London's Black Poor and the role of the Sierra Leone Company in running the settlement.
Alice Waters
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Alice Waters—chef, restaurateur, author, and activist—names The Taste of Country Cooking as a profound influence on the manner in which she runs her restaurant Chez Panisse.
Alice Waters—chef, restaurateur, author, and activist—names The Taste of Country Cooking as a profound influence on the manner in which she runs her restaurant Chez Panisse.
Stephen J. Braidwood
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853233770
- eISBN:
- 9781846317293
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317293
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This book examines the events surrounding the establishment of a settlement in West Africa in 1787 that was later to become Freetown, the present-day capital of Sierra Leone. It outlines the range of ...
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This book examines the events surrounding the establishment of a settlement in West Africa in 1787 that was later to become Freetown, the present-day capital of Sierra Leone. It outlines the range of ideas and attitudes to Africa that underlay the foundation of the settlement, and the part played by the black settlers themselves, London's ‘Black Poor’. Was the settlement based on a racist deportation designed to keep Britain white (as some accounts claim), or a voluntary emigration in which blacks themselves played a part? Once in West Africa, the settlers faced a struggle to survive against often harsh conditions, a struggle that included conflict with slave traders and neighbouring Africans. The settlement's ‘failure’ is perhaps less surprising than its subsequent re-establishment. The last part of the book looks at the nature of the Sierra Leone Company through the debate over its formation.Less
This book examines the events surrounding the establishment of a settlement in West Africa in 1787 that was later to become Freetown, the present-day capital of Sierra Leone. It outlines the range of ideas and attitudes to Africa that underlay the foundation of the settlement, and the part played by the black settlers themselves, London's ‘Black Poor’. Was the settlement based on a racist deportation designed to keep Britain white (as some accounts claim), or a voluntary emigration in which blacks themselves played a part? Once in West Africa, the settlers faced a struggle to survive against often harsh conditions, a struggle that included conflict with slave traders and neighbouring Africans. The settlement's ‘failure’ is perhaps less surprising than its subsequent re-establishment. The last part of the book looks at the nature of the Sierra Leone Company through the debate over its formation.
Anne Whitehead
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780748686186
- eISBN:
- 9781474438728
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686186.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on medicine and empathy in the context of global capitalism. It argues that our affective interactions are necessarily embedded in, and inflected by, structural and material ...
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This chapter focuses on medicine and empathy in the context of global capitalism. It argues that our affective interactions are necessarily embedded in, and inflected by, structural and material relations of power. Empathy emerges as an affect that follows existing routes of privilege. The first section, ‘Medical migrations’, analyses current debates about the relation of medical migration to inequalities in world health and traces the circuits by and through which medical resource is distributed. Turning to Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love, it is argued that Forna pays detailed attention to the unevenness of the global economics of medical resource, with specific reference to Sierra Leone. In the second section, Forna’s protagonist Adrian Lockheart is used to open up the question of how affect circulates, and where it sticks, in the novel and discusses Adrian’s empathetic misrecognition in the treatments of his patients in Sierra Leone. The final section asks whether change is possible in the novel, drawing out the significance of the novel’s double time frame to suggest that the unfulfilled political promise of the past can shape the future.Less
This chapter focuses on medicine and empathy in the context of global capitalism. It argues that our affective interactions are necessarily embedded in, and inflected by, structural and material relations of power. Empathy emerges as an affect that follows existing routes of privilege. The first section, ‘Medical migrations’, analyses current debates about the relation of medical migration to inequalities in world health and traces the circuits by and through which medical resource is distributed. Turning to Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love, it is argued that Forna pays detailed attention to the unevenness of the global economics of medical resource, with specific reference to Sierra Leone. In the second section, Forna’s protagonist Adrian Lockheart is used to open up the question of how affect circulates, and where it sticks, in the novel and discusses Adrian’s empathetic misrecognition in the treatments of his patients in Sierra Leone. The final section asks whether change is possible in the novel, drawing out the significance of the novel’s double time frame to suggest that the unfulfilled political promise of the past can shape the future.
Jane Lear
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Popular food and travel writer Jane Lear reflects on Lewis’s essay “What is Southern?,” which she helped to publish in Gourmet magazine. Lear praises Lewis’s “unaffected, straightforward language” ...
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Popular food and travel writer Jane Lear reflects on Lewis’s essay “What is Southern?,” which she helped to publish in Gourmet magazine. Lear praises Lewis’s “unaffected, straightforward language” and remarkable self-sufficiency for the colorful ingredients that pepper her writing.Less
Popular food and travel writer Jane Lear reflects on Lewis’s essay “What is Southern?,” which she helped to publish in Gourmet magazine. Lear praises Lewis’s “unaffected, straightforward language” and remarkable self-sufficiency for the colorful ingredients that pepper her writing.
Caroline Randall Williams
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Caroline Randall Williams—culinary author, young adult novelist, and poet—writes of the profound influence that Lewis has had on her life. She recalls listening to her mother’s stories of Lewis in ...
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Caroline Randall Williams—culinary author, young adult novelist, and poet—writes of the profound influence that Lewis has had on her life. She recalls listening to her mother’s stories of Lewis in childhood, cooking from The Edna Lewis Cookbook as an undergrad, and being inspired by Lewis’s works to write her very own cookbook.Less
Caroline Randall Williams—culinary author, young adult novelist, and poet—writes of the profound influence that Lewis has had on her life. She recalls listening to her mother’s stories of Lewis in childhood, cooking from The Edna Lewis Cookbook as an undergrad, and being inspired by Lewis’s works to write her very own cookbook.
Scott Alves Barton
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Scott Alves Barton, formerly named one of the top 25 African American chefs by Ebony magazine, contextualizes Lewis as a culinary icon in his three-part essay. He emphasizes her importance to the ...
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Scott Alves Barton, formerly named one of the top 25 African American chefs by Ebony magazine, contextualizes Lewis as a culinary icon in his three-part essay. He emphasizes her importance to the African diaspora by giving a detailed account of how her life’s work—food—mingled so inseparably with black history.Less
Scott Alves Barton, formerly named one of the top 25 African American chefs by Ebony magazine, contextualizes Lewis as a culinary icon in his three-part essay. He emphasizes her importance to the African diaspora by giving a detailed account of how her life’s work—food—mingled so inseparably with black history.
Megan Elias
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Author and academic Megan Elias praises Lewis’s role as a cultural teacher through a medium that everyone can enjoy—food. Elias provides a thorough analysis of the historical significance of Lewis’s ...
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Author and academic Megan Elias praises Lewis’s role as a cultural teacher through a medium that everyone can enjoy—food. Elias provides a thorough analysis of the historical significance of Lewis’s life and works.Less
Author and academic Megan Elias praises Lewis’s role as a cultural teacher through a medium that everyone can enjoy—food. Elias provides a thorough analysis of the historical significance of Lewis’s life and works.
Patricia E. Clark
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Associate professor Patricia Clark explores the implications and relationship between the “legions of anonymous black women who labor in the kitchens” and Lewis’s role as a legendary chef.
Associate professor Patricia Clark explores the implications and relationship between the “legions of anonymous black women who labor in the kitchens” and Lewis’s role as a legendary chef.
Annemarie Ahearn
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469638553
- eISBN:
- 9781469641454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Annemarie Aheard, founder of Salt Water Farm Cooking School, shares a passion for sustainable living and cultivating her own ingredients with Lewis. Inspired by the simple observations of the ...
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Annemarie Aheard, founder of Salt Water Farm Cooking School, shares a passion for sustainable living and cultivating her own ingredients with Lewis. Inspired by the simple observations of the surrounding world found in Lewis’s cookbooks, Aheard pens her own brief journal of the Maine landscape.Less
Annemarie Aheard, founder of Salt Water Farm Cooking School, shares a passion for sustainable living and cultivating her own ingredients with Lewis. Inspired by the simple observations of the surrounding world found in Lewis’s cookbooks, Aheard pens her own brief journal of the Maine landscape.
Maggie Dwyer
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190876074
- eISBN:
- 9780190943134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190876074.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
This chapter focuses on a revolt involving roughly fifty soldiers on April 29, 1992 in Sierra Leone. A brief history of the role of the military in Sierra Leone prior to the revolt will help ...
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This chapter focuses on a revolt involving roughly fifty soldiers on April 29, 1992 in Sierra Leone. A brief history of the role of the military in Sierra Leone prior to the revolt will help contextualize the soldiers’ grievances. The chapter will then examine the internal dynamics of the unit drawing on interviews with soldiers involved in the revolt. Their complaints and suspicions about political leaders crystalized into a plan for a mutiny and ultimately resulted in a coup. This case study builds on the discussion of the differences between coups and mutinies.Less
This chapter focuses on a revolt involving roughly fifty soldiers on April 29, 1992 in Sierra Leone. A brief history of the role of the military in Sierra Leone prior to the revolt will help contextualize the soldiers’ grievances. The chapter will then examine the internal dynamics of the unit drawing on interviews with soldiers involved in the revolt. Their complaints and suspicions about political leaders crystalized into a plan for a mutiny and ultimately resulted in a coup. This case study builds on the discussion of the differences between coups and mutinies.
