Andreas Massing
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Massing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Massing |
| SIGNATURE | MASSING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The English in West Africa: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, Part 3
Law, Robin (ed.). — The English in West Africa: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, Part 3. Oxford, Oxford University Press (“Fontes Historiae Africanae. New Series, Sources of African History”), 2007, 719 p. This last of three volumes of Royal African Company correspondence contains letters and daybooks from various forts, and minor correspondence from outposts to the Company hq at Cape Coast (unfortunate…
Marchand, Trevor H. J. — The Masons of Djenne
The aim to understand the building of mansions and mosques in Djenne and how builders learn and transmit their craft to others made the author join a building team in order to acquire basic skills through participant observation-brick-making, foundation casting, building of walls, roofing, decoration and plastering. Scenes from daily life of masons or apprentices are skilfully blended in with the construction stages. When Djenne became Unesco Wor…
Imams of Gonja: The Kamaghate and the Transmission of Islam to the Volta Basin
The Kamaghate lineage which claims to belong to the Diakhanke tradition of Haji Salim Souaré and the Soninke clerical lineage of Diaby-Gassama has held the imamate in Begho and expanded with the Gonja into the Western Volta basin. Its roots can be followed to centres of Islamic diaspora such as Djenne, Odienne, Samatiguila, Tiemé, Kong, Bouna and Bondoukou. It forms part of an Eastern Diakhanke branch which has introduced Islam into the Volta Bas…
Doortmont, Michel R. & Smit, Jinna. – Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands
In the year which celebrated the bicentennial of the abolition of slavery–and 300 years of Dutch-Asante relations–this guide to documents on Ghana (Guinea Coast, Gold Coast) in Dutch archives gives international students and researchers access to the National Archives (formerly Algemeen Rijksarchief) which previously had been accessible only to Dutch speakers. The Netherlands have had the longest contacts with Ghana among the six nations with est…
Jacob, Jean-Pierre. — Terres privées, terres communes
Twenty years after his thesis on Winye chiefs and power in central Burkina Faso, J.-P. Jacob directs our attention to Winye land tenure and arrives at generalizations valid for other societies about
Bradbury, Mark. – Becoming Somaliland
The Horn of Africa is one of the least known regions of the globe and receives media attention over fighting in or near Mogadisho, piracy or terrorism. The image of Somalia as failed state does not fit the reality that there are areas which carry on their lives–like African communities have done for thousands of years–under traditional local authority without state institutions. In Northern Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland have since 1990, emerge…
Valentim Fernandes' Five Maps and the Early History and Geography of São Tomé
Maps may be important historical documents, reflecting the situation of a given place at a given time, and comparing several maps from different periods of the same area can inform us of changes in social and human geography. For some distant parts of the world they may be the only sources for a past that provides us with few if any sources. Thus Valentim Fernandes' five maps of São Tomé are a unique source for the slow and gradual growth of the …
Mapping the Malagueta Coast: A History of the Lower Guinea Coast, 1460–1510 through Portuguese Maps and Accounts
The Malagueta Coast can serve as a classic example of a region which was integrated into the world economy as a result of world demand for its resources—spices and labor in the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries, and again in the nineteenth century palm oil, cocos fiber, and labor—and has sunk into oblivion once the demand ceased. It is similar with Liberia's rubber and iron ore industry of the twentieth century. I had wanted to write this paper, whic…
Baghayogho: A Soninke Muslim Diaspora in the Mande World
Baghayogho, une diaspora soninké dans le monde mandé. — Cet article retrace le rôle et l’implication d’une seule famille — dont les membres se réclament les derniers des Wangara aujourd’hui — dans la réformation de l’islam suite au pèlerinage du roi Askia Mohammed et dans l’introduction de la loi islamique aux villes maliennes du xviie. Aussi semble-t-il que la « mission » auprès des chefferies des zones aurifères des régions forestières — dans d…
Valsecchi, Pierluigi & Viti, Fabio (dir.). – Mondes Akan/Akan Worlds. Identité et pouvoir en Afrique occidentale/Identity and Power in West Africa. Paris-Montréal, L’Harmattan, 1999, 361 p., bibl.
The contributions to Akan Worlds center around the rise to power and its manifestations at various levels, from micro-level (local spirit cult, village, lineage) to macro-level (chiefdom or state). While the contributions deal with specific polities such as Nzima (2), Efutu (2), Bono (1), Baoule (2) and Ashanti (2), few deal with “integration by conquest” which was the dominant model of Akan expansion in the past. Chouin argues that cross-ethnic …
The Wangara, an Old Soninke Diaspora in West Africa
The Wangara are a central element of a Soninke diaspora and go back for centuries in history, namely to the Soninke kingdom of Ghana. They were known as Wakoré, who probably obtained royal trade privileges. Certain groups holding the imamates in key settlements such as the Sa(gha)nogo, Kamaghaté, Diaba(gha)té, Timité, Cissé-Haidara, Fofana and Bagayogo are of Soninke origin, but other people identify themselves with them claiming “Wangara” status…
The Mane, the Decline of Mali, and Mandinka Expansion towards the South Windward Coast
A. W. Massing - Les Mane, le déclin du Mali, et l'expansion mandingue vers la Côte du Vent méridionale. L'analyse des traditions orales et des écrits européens des xvie et xviie siècles tend à indiquer que la prétendue invasion des Mane au xvie siècle n'était qu'une incursion parmi d'autres. Les Mane seraient des Manding, du groupe dialectal mande-nord plutôt que mande-sud. Cette invasion n'a guère intéressé que la péninsule de Sierra Leone et se…
The Economic Anthropology of the Kru (West Africa)
Traditional Organizations and Economic Development: Studies of Indigenous Cooperatives in Liberia
The Wangara, an Old Soninke Diaspora in West Africa
The Wangara are a central element of a Soninke diaspora and go back for centuries in history, namely to the Soninke kingdom of Ghana. They were known as Wakoré, who probably obtained royal trade privileges. Certain groups holding the imamates in key settlements such as the Sa(gha)nogo, Kamaghaté, Diaba(gha)té, Timité, Cissé-Haidara, Fofana and Bagayogo are of Soninke origin, but other people identify themselves with them claiming “Wangara” status…
Baghayogho: A Soninke Muslim Diaspora in the Mande World
Baghayogho, une diaspora soninké dans le monde mandé. — Cet article retrace le rôle et l’implication d’une seule famille — dont les membres se réclament les derniers des Wangara aujourd’hui — dans la réformation de l’islam suite au pèlerinage du roi Askia Mohammed et dans l’introduction de la loi islamique aux villes maliennes du xviie. Aussi semble-t-il que la « mission » auprès des chefferies des zones aurifères des régions forestières — dans d…
The Mane, the Decline of Mali, and Mandinka Expansion towards the South Windward Coast
A. W. Massing - Les Mane, le déclin du Mali, et l'expansion mandingue vers la Côte du Vent méridionale. L'analyse des traditions orales et des écrits européens des xvie et xviie siècles tend à indiquer que la prétendue invasion des Mane au xvie siècle n'était qu'une incursion parmi d'autres. Les Mane seraient des Manding, du groupe dialectal mande-nord plutôt que mande-sud. Cette invasion n'a guère intéressé que la péninsule de Sierra Leone et se…
Mapping the Malagueta Coast: A History of the Lower Guinea Coast, 1460–1510 through Portuguese Maps and Accounts
The Malagueta Coast can serve as a classic example of a region which was integrated into the world economy as a result of world demand for its resources—spices and labor in the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries, and again in the nineteenth century palm oil, cocos fiber, and labor—and has sunk into oblivion once the demand ceased. It is similar with Liberia's rubber and iron ore industry of the twentieth century. I had wanted to write this paper, whic…
Valentim Fernandes' Five Maps and the Early History and Geography of São Tomé
Maps may be important historical documents, reflecting the situation of a given place at a given time, and comparing several maps from different periods of the same area can inform us of changes in social and human geography. For some distant parts of the world they may be the only sources for a past that provides us with few if any sources. Thus Valentim Fernandes' five maps of São Tomé are a unique source for the slow and gradual growth of the …
Traditional Organizations and Economic Development: Studies of Indigenous Cooperatives in Liberia
The Economic Anthropology of the Kru (West Africa)
The Mane, the Decline of Mali, and Mandinka Expansion towards the South Windward Coast
A. W. Massing - Les Mane, le déclin du Mali, et l'expansion mandingue vers la Côte du Vent méridionale. L'analyse des traditions orales et des écrits européens des xvie et xviie siècles tend à indiquer que la prétendue invasion des Mane au xvie siècle n'était qu'une incursion parmi d'autres. Les Mane seraient des Manding, du groupe dialectal mande-nord plutôt que mande-sud. Cette invasion n'a guère intéressé que la péninsule de Sierra Leone et se…
The Wangara, an Old Soninke Diaspora in West Africa
The Wangara are a central element of a Soninke diaspora and go back for centuries in history, namely to the Soninke kingdom of Ghana. They were known as Wakoré, who probably obtained royal trade privileges. Certain groups holding the imamates in key settlements such as the Sa(gha)nogo, Kamaghaté, Diaba(gha)té, Timité, Cissé-Haidara, Fofana and Bagayogo are of Soninke origin, but other people identify themselves with them claiming “Wangara” status…
Valsecchi, Pierluigi & Viti, Fabio (dir.). – Mondes Akan/Akan Worlds. Identité et pouvoir en Afrique occidentale/Identity and Power in West Africa. Paris-Montréal, L’Harmattan, 1999, 361 p., bibl.
The contributions to Akan Worlds center around the rise to power and its manifestations at various levels, from micro-level (local spirit cult, village, lineage) to macro-level (chiefdom or state). While the contributions deal with specific polities such as Nzima (2), Efutu (2), Bono (1), Baoule (2) and Ashanti (2), few deal with “integration by conquest” which was the dominant model of Akan expansion in the past. Chouin argues that cross-ethnic …
Baghayogho: A Soninke Muslim Diaspora in the Mande World
Baghayogho, une diaspora soninké dans le monde mandé. — Cet article retrace le rôle et l’implication d’une seule famille — dont les membres se réclament les derniers des Wangara aujourd’hui — dans la réformation de l’islam suite au pèlerinage du roi Askia Mohammed et dans l’introduction de la loi islamique aux villes maliennes du xviie. Aussi semble-t-il que la « mission » auprès des chefferies des zones aurifères des régions forestières — dans d…
Valentim Fernandes' Five Maps and the Early History and Geography of São Tomé
Maps may be important historical documents, reflecting the situation of a given place at a given time, and comparing several maps from different periods of the same area can inform us of changes in social and human geography. For some distant parts of the world they may be the only sources for a past that provides us with few if any sources. Thus Valentim Fernandes' five maps of São Tomé are a unique source for the slow and gradual growth of the …
Mapping the Malagueta Coast: A History of the Lower Guinea Coast, 1460–1510 through Portuguese Maps and Accounts
The Malagueta Coast can serve as a classic example of a region which was integrated into the world economy as a result of world demand for its resources—spices and labor in the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries, and again in the nineteenth century palm oil, cocos fiber, and labor—and has sunk into oblivion once the demand ceased. It is similar with Liberia's rubber and iron ore industry of the twentieth century. I had wanted to write this paper, whic…
Doortmont, Michel R. & Smit, Jinna. – Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands
In the year which celebrated the bicentennial of the abolition of slavery–and 300 years of Dutch-Asante relations–this guide to documents on Ghana (Guinea Coast, Gold Coast) in Dutch archives gives international students and researchers access to the National Archives (formerly Algemeen Rijksarchief) which previously had been accessible only to Dutch speakers. The Netherlands have had the longest contacts with Ghana among the six nations with est…
Jacob, Jean-Pierre. — Terres privées, terres communes
Twenty years after his thesis on Winye chiefs and power in central Burkina Faso, J.-P. Jacob directs our attention to Winye land tenure and arrives at generalizations valid for other societies about
Bradbury, Mark. – Becoming Somaliland
The Horn of Africa is one of the least known regions of the globe and receives media attention over fighting in or near Mogadisho, piracy or terrorism. The image of Somalia as failed state does not fit the reality that there are areas which carry on their lives–like African communities have done for thousands of years–under traditional local authority without state institutions. In Northern Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland have since 1990, emerge…
Marchand, Trevor H. J. — The Masons of Djenne
The aim to understand the building of mansions and mosques in Djenne and how builders learn and transmit their craft to others made the author join a building team in order to acquire basic skills through participant observation-brick-making, foundation casting, building of walls, roofing, decoration and plastering. Scenes from daily life of masons or apprentices are skilfully blended in with the construction stages. When Djenne became Unesco Wor…
Imams of Gonja: The Kamaghate and the Transmission of Islam to the Volta Basin
The Kamaghate lineage which claims to belong to the Diakhanke tradition of Haji Salim Souaré and the Soninke clerical lineage of Diaby-Gassama has held the imamate in Begho and expanded with the Gonja into the Western Volta basin. Its roots can be followed to centres of Islamic diaspora such as Djenne, Odienne, Samatiguila, Tiemé, Kong, Bouna and Bondoukou. It forms part of an Eastern Diakhanke branch which has introduced Islam into the Volta Bas…
The English in West Africa: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, Part 3
Law, Robin (ed.). — The English in West Africa: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, Part 3. Oxford, Oxford University Press (“Fontes Historiae Africanae. New Series, Sources of African History”), 2007, 719 p. This last of three volumes of Royal African Company correspondence contains letters and daybooks from various forts, and minor correspondence from outposts to the Company hq at Cape Coast (unfortunate…
Geography (9 works) · History (8 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (6 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works)