Les Africains, la mer et les historiens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3625417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Devisse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 115 |
| Pages | 397-418 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/cea.1989.1632 |
| OpenAlex | W2094922148 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
J. Devisse-Africans, the Sea and Historians. Most historians have written that Africans turned away from the sea out of fear. Very few sources can help us draw up a serious long-term history of Africans and the sea. For several millennia, coastal activities involved actively gathering shell-fish and then fishing itself; but we cannot conclude that maritime activities were highly developed, since the inhabitants continued finding their resources on the continent. We can clearly observe maritime activities during the past two millennia, first in eastern and then in western Africa. In the western part of the Indian Ocean, Africans were much involved in exchanges and navigation between Madagascar and Aden; and in West Africa, recent research has shown that they had begun venturing out on the high sea before the arrivai of the Portuguese. A new methodology has to be drawn up if research on this topic is to advance
Ethnology · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Portuguese · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |