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Title: | The Relevance of Spatial Analysis for African Economic History: The Sierra Leone-Guinea System |
Author: | Howard, Allen M. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 365-388 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Sierra Leone Guinea |
Subjects: | mercantile history physical planning History and Exploration Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/180700 |
Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to illustrate the value of spatial analysis for a number of questions in the economic history of pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on a large inter-regional commercial system which the author calls the Sierra Leone-Guinea system; more specifically it looks at that section of the system which lies in the coastal plain of the modern Republics of Sierra Leone and Guinea (Conakry). Among the main concepts discussed are central place theory, 'growth' centres', port gateways, and dendritic marketing systems. The article concentrates on the second half of the nineteenth century. Figs., notes, summary. |