Faith Abiola-Ellison

The Yoruba-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Selections from

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Alfred Burdon Ellis



British Army officer and ethnographer AB Ellis was known for his writings on West Africa. His final publication takes an anthropological mag…

A pilgrimage to my motherland. An account of a journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60

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Robert Campbell



Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the …

The Crime of the Congo

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



A Conan Doyle brings the skills of thorough analysis in his documenting of the atrocities occurring in the Congo Free State (an area now kn…

The Return of the Exiles and the West African Church

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Edward Wilmot Blyden



A lecture delivered at the Breadfruit school house, Lagos, West Africa, January 2, 1891E.W. Blyden (1832 to 1912) was born in the Caribbean …