Edmund Abaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 219279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmund Abaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmund |
| FAMILY NAME | Abaka |
| SIGNATURE | ABAKA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Historical Dictionary of Ghana
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 Dictio…
Slavery, Remembrance, and Sites of Historical Memory
Badagry, a lagoonside city in Lagos State, Nigeria, is of tremendous historical significance due to its long history of slave trading, which dates from the early sixteenth century and reached a peak in the 1720s. The city attracted prominent local and Portuguese slave merchants such as Felix de Souza, Domingo Martinez, and Ferman Gomez as pioneer slave merchants in the city. This paper argues that the trade in enslaved persons was a significant f…
W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
Africa—Its Place in Modern History
Bianca Murillo. Market Encounters
Precolonial commercial networks, long-distance trade networks across ecological zones and oceans (Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans), and the “legitimate” trade that replaced the slave trade have all been studied as integral both to African economic history and in detailing the African as a producer, a laborer, and an organizer. But until barely a decade ago, who the African consumer was, and is, has not been a focal point of examination…
Comment on “Eating Kola”
This paper reflects on the significance of the 1998 work on kola nuts but also on kola as a commodity that could have revolutionized life the way coffee has, given the fact that one red kola nut contains as much caffeine as two cups of American coffee. It underscores the therapeutic and dietetic significance of kola and makes the case that while cocoa and coffee broke into the consumer market over a century ago, kola did not.
Eating Kola”
The importance of kola as a psychoactive substance has not been a focus of analysis despite the contemporary interest in licit and illicit drugs. The only exception is Paul Lovejoy’s “ ‘Coffee’ of the Central Sudan.”[1][1] This paper thus seeks to highlight the importance of kola as a “drug” and to stress the need for more research on the medicinal properties of kola. [1]: #fn-1
Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries -- in groups or as individuals -- Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to se…
Making the Town. Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra
Food Production in Urban Areas
Eating Kola”
Camelina is being developed as a winter oilseed cover crop. Early flowering and maturity are desired traits in camelina to allow for relay planting or seeding of a summer annual following camelina harvest. Here we report that while all winter biotype accessions of camelina have a functional allele of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) on chromosome 20, there are also at least 20 previously characterized spring biotype accessions that have a functional FLC a…
The Intemational Context of the RwanJan Crisis
Africa is beset by many socioeconomic and political problems. Kaplan (1994) points out that scarcity, crime, over-population, ethnic conflict, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet. It is apparent that Rwanda and other African countries are facing cataclysms of crime, violence, famine, political and economic instability, ethnic strife, and a declining resource base. Rwanda is currently experiencing ethnic clashes, sca…
Forced Migration From Rwanda
The ongoing Rwandan crisis has been attributed to the war between the Tutsi-dominated Rwandans in the diaspora and the Hutu-dominated regime at home. More often than not, the conflict has been presented as that between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The media largely ignored the tens of thousands of Rwandans killed in massacres that antedate the 1990s. The explanation of the crisis in terms of the repression of the Tutsi by the regime in Kigali (whose p…
Making the Town. Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra
Historical Dictionary of Ghana
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 Dictio…
The Intemational Context of the RwanJan Crisis
Africa is beset by many socioeconomic and political problems. Kaplan (1994) points out that scarcity, crime, over-population, ethnic conflict, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet. It is apparent that Rwanda and other African countries are facing cataclysms of crime, violence, famine, political and economic instability, ethnic strife, and a declining resource base. Rwanda is currently experiencing ethnic clashes, sca…
Forced Migration From Rwanda
The ongoing Rwandan crisis has been attributed to the war between the Tutsi-dominated Rwandans in the diaspora and the Hutu-dominated regime at home. More often than not, the conflict has been presented as that between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The media largely ignored the tens of thousands of Rwandans killed in massacres that antedate the 1990s. The explanation of the crisis in terms of the repression of the Tutsi by the regime in Kigali (whose p…
Eating Kola”
Camelina is being developed as a winter oilseed cover crop. Early flowering and maturity are desired traits in camelina to allow for relay planting or seeding of a summer annual following camelina harvest. Here we report that while all winter biotype accessions of camelina have a functional allele of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) on chromosome 20, there are also at least 20 previously characterized spring biotype accessions that have a functional FLC a…
Food Production in Urban Areas
Making the Town. Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra
Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa
A groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the pre-colonial to the modern era. Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries -- in groups or as individuals -- Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to se…
Comment on “Eating Kola”
This paper reflects on the significance of the 1998 work on kola nuts but also on kola as a commodity that could have revolutionized life the way coffee has, given the fact that one red kola nut contains as much caffeine as two cups of American coffee. It underscores the therapeutic and dietetic significance of kola and makes the case that while cocoa and coffee broke into the consumer market over a century ago, kola did not.
Eating Kola”
The importance of kola as a psychoactive substance has not been a focus of analysis despite the contemporary interest in licit and illicit drugs. The only exception is Paul Lovejoy’s “ ‘Coffee’ of the Central Sudan.”[1][1] This paper thus seeks to highlight the importance of kola as a “drug” and to stress the need for more research on the medicinal properties of kola. [1]: #fn-1
W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa
Africa—Its Place in Modern History
Bianca Murillo. Market Encounters
Precolonial commercial networks, long-distance trade networks across ecological zones and oceans (Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans), and the “legitimate” trade that replaced the slave trade have all been studied as integral both to African economic history and in detailing the African as a producer, a laborer, and an organizer. But until barely a decade ago, who the African consumer was, and is, has not been a focal point of examination…
Slavery, Remembrance, and Sites of Historical Memory
Badagry, a lagoonside city in Lagos State, Nigeria, is of tremendous historical significance due to its long history of slave trading, which dates from the early sixteenth century and reached a peak in the 1720s. The city attracted prominent local and Portuguese slave merchants such as Felix de Souza, Domingo Martinez, and Ferman Gomez as pioneer slave merchants in the city. This paper argues that the trade in enslaved persons was a significant f…
Historical Dictionary of Ghana
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 Dictio…
Geography (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Law (3 works)