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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2014
      02 June 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511983146
      9781108028592
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511983146
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 312 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History
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    This book, first published in 1868, became the best-known work of medical officer and writer James Africanus Beale Horton (1835–1883), who was born in Sierra Leone to parents of Igbo descent. He was chosen by the British to train as an army medical officer and attended King's College, London, and Edinburgh University. He returned to West Africa and published his doctoral thesis, which was a medical topography of the region; subsequent works called for health reforms. West African Countries, however, went beyond medicine. In it Horton refutes the derogatory racial theories about Africans rife in Victorian Britain and its empire, and he examines the possibility of self-government and how it might function in Sierra Leone and other territories in West Africa, foreshadowing the decolonisation that took place almost one hundred years later.

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