Alusine Jalloh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92488 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alusine Jalloh |
| NOMBRES | Alusine |
| APELLIDO | Jalloh |
| FIRMA | JALLOH A |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone
The first comprehensive book on the participation of Muslim Fula business elites in the post-independence politics of Sierra Leone
Reconstructing Modern African Business History
This chapter examines the methods and sources of African business history or the history of African business activities on the continent, focusing on the post-colonial period. It also examines three methodological approaches in reconstructing modern African business history: biographies, sector approach, and company histories. Reconstructing book-length biographies of individual African entrepreneurs or collective biographies of African businessp…
The United States and West Africa
Over the last several decades, historians have conducted extensive research into contact between the United States and West Africa during the era of the transatlantic trade. Yet we still understand relatively little about more recent relations between the two areas. This multidisciplinary volume presents the most comprehensive analysis of the U.S.-West African relationship to date, filling a significant gap in the literature by examining the soci…
Economic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900–1950
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African Americans in Ghana and Their Contributions to “Nation Building” since 1985
West Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective
During World War II, the exigencies of America's national security caused the forging of new and more enduring relations between the African continent and the United States. What had hitherto been a “dark continent” to many Americans became something of significance to the United States during the war. Yet the history of interactions between the two entities dates back several centuries before the global war of 1939–45. The possibility of pre-Col…
The West African Enterprise Network
Introduction This chapter discusses the “new generation” of African entrepreneurs who were organized into the West African Enterprise Network (WAEN) between 1993 and 2003, as a creation of a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors. The aim was to “strengthen private sector capacity to pursue regional and international business opportunities and to develop and implement a reform agenda targ…
From Africa to Brazil
From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600 – 1830 is an original and important addition to the growing number of studies on African ethnicities and slavery in the Americas. This carefully researched and well-written book breaks new ground in our understanding of the transatlantic connections between the rice-producing regions of the Upper Guinea coast and the understudied Amazonia area in northeastern Brazil, wher…
United States and West Africa
Informal Credit and Politics in Sierra Leone
Black Business and Economic Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Slaves and Slaveholders on the Gold Coast
Haenger, Peter. 2000. Slaves and Slaveholders on the Gold Coast: Towards an Understanding of Social Bondage in West Africa. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 213 pp. Edited by J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy. Translated from the German by Christina Handford
El Dorado in West Africa
Dumett, Raymond E. 1998. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey. 396 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
African Enterpreneurship
African entrepreneurship
Between 1961 and 1978, Muslim Fula immigrants from different West African countries became one of the most successful mercantile groups in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. African Entrepreneurship, published by Ohio University Press on December 31, 1999, examines the commercial activities of Fula immigrants and their offspring in Sierra Leone. Author Alusine Jalloh explores the role of Islam in Fula commercial organizations and social …
The African Diaspora
The African Diaspora
The Fula and the Motor Transport Business in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Over the past three decades, the motor transport business has been one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. Freetown has long been the hub of the national transportation network. This is the result of the city's port, its point of contact with the outside world, its concentration of economic and utility services, and its role as the seat of government and the source of news and innovation. F…
The Fula and Islamic Education in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This study examines the role of the Fula in Islamic education inFreetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, from the colonial to the postcolonialperiod. The Fula educational initiative forges a partnershipbetween the Muslim private sector and local educators. Not only does itprovide a model for responding to the challenge of developing Islamiceducation in Sierra Leone, but it is a model that can be implementedthroughout Africa. It is especially i…
Divine Madness
Journal Article Divine Madness: Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (1856–1920) Get access Divine Madness: Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (1856–1920), by Abdi Sheik-Abdi. London: Zed Books Ltd., 1993. xi + 226pp. £13.95. ISBN 0-86232-444-0. ALUSINE JALLOH ALUSINE JALLOH University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 375, April 1995, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.1093/ox…
Black Business and Economic Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Fula and the Motor Transport Business in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Over the past three decades, the motor transport business has been one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. Freetown has long been the hub of the national transportation network. This is the result of the city's port, its point of contact with the outside world, its concentration of economic and utility services, and its role as the seat of government and the source of news and innovation. F…
Informal Credit and Politics in Sierra Leone
Divine Madness
Journal Article Divine Madness: Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (1856–1920) Get access Divine Madness: Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (1856–1920), by Abdi Sheik-Abdi. London: Zed Books Ltd., 1993. xi + 226pp. £13.95. ISBN 0-86232-444-0. ALUSINE JALLOH ALUSINE JALLOH University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 375, April 1995, Pages 301–302, https://doi.org/10.1093/ox…
The Fula and Islamic Education in Freetown, Sierra Leone
This study examines the role of the Fula in Islamic education inFreetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, from the colonial to the postcolonialperiod. The Fula educational initiative forges a partnershipbetween the Muslim private sector and local educators. Not only does itprovide a model for responding to the challenge of developing Islamiceducation in Sierra Leone, but it is a model that can be implementedthroughout Africa. It is especially i…
The African Diaspora
The Fula and the Motor Transport Business in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Over the past three decades, the motor transport business has been one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. Freetown has long been the hub of the national transportation network. This is the result of the city's port, its point of contact with the outside world, its concentration of economic and utility services, and its role as the seat of government and the source of news and innovation. F…
African entrepreneurship
Between 1961 and 1978, Muslim Fula immigrants from different West African countries became one of the most successful mercantile groups in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. African Entrepreneurship, published by Ohio University Press on December 31, 1999, examines the commercial activities of Fula immigrants and their offspring in Sierra Leone. Author Alusine Jalloh explores the role of Islam in Fula commercial organizations and social …
The African Diaspora
El Dorado in West Africa
Dumett, Raymond E. 1998. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900. Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey. 396 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
African Enterpreneurship
Slaves and Slaveholders on the Gold Coast
Haenger, Peter. 2000. Slaves and Slaveholders on the Gold Coast: Towards an Understanding of Social Bondage in West Africa. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 213 pp. Edited by J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy. Translated from the German by Christina Handford
Informal Credit and Politics in Sierra Leone
Black Business and Economic Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
United States and West Africa
The United States and West Africa
Over the last several decades, historians have conducted extensive research into contact between the United States and West Africa during the era of the transatlantic trade. Yet we still understand relatively little about more recent relations between the two areas. This multidisciplinary volume presents the most comprehensive analysis of the U.S.-West African relationship to date, filling a significant gap in the literature by examining the soci…
Economic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900–1950
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics
African Americans in Ghana and Their Contributions to “Nation Building” since 1985
West Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective
During World War II, the exigencies of America's national security caused the forging of new and more enduring relations between the African continent and the United States. What had hitherto been a “dark continent” to many Americans became something of significance to the United States during the war. Yet the history of interactions between the two entities dates back several centuries before the global war of 1939–45. The possibility of pre-Col…
The West African Enterprise Network
Introduction This chapter discusses the “new generation” of African entrepreneurs who were organized into the West African Enterprise Network (WAEN) between 1993 and 2003, as a creation of a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors. The aim was to “strengthen private sector capacity to pursue regional and international business opportunities and to develop and implement a reform agenda targ…
From Africa to Brazil
From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600 – 1830 is an original and important addition to the growing number of studies on African ethnicities and slavery in the Americas. This carefully researched and well-written book breaks new ground in our understanding of the transatlantic connections between the rice-producing regions of the Upper Guinea coast and the understudied Amazonia area in northeastern Brazil, wher…
Reconstructing Modern African Business History
This chapter examines the methods and sources of African business history or the history of African business activities on the continent, focusing on the post-colonial period. It also examines three methodological approaches in reconstructing modern African business history: biographies, sector approach, and company histories. Reconstructing book-length biographies of individual African entrepreneurs or collective biographies of African businessp…
Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone
The first comprehensive book on the participation of Muslim Fula business elites in the post-independence politics of Sierra Leone
Geography (13 obras) · African history and culture studies (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · History (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Sierra leone (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Archaeology (5 obras) · Ethnology (5 obras) · Development economics (4 obras)