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West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native - And a Vindication of the African Race (Paperback)
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West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native - And a Vindication of the African Race (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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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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