Landlords-Strangers: A Process of Accommodation and Assimilation

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Title:	Landlords-Strangers: A Process of Accommodation and Assimilation
Author:	Mouser, Bruce L.
Year:	1975
Periodical:	International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:	8
Issue:	3
Pages:	425-440
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Guinea
Subjects:	culture contact Western culture African culture mercantile history history 1700-1799 1800-1899 colonialism Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/217153
Abstract:	In his study 'A history of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800' (London, 1970) Walter H. Rodney concludes that once an agreement between Europeans hoping to settle on the African coast and the African traditional elite had been reached, the only means to change or modify it were coups or the conscious subversion of traditional authority. In this article the author demonstrates that along the Nunez and Pongo rivers from the 1790s to 1860s the relationship between African elites, or landlords, and European or African foreign residents, the strangers, was neither static nor developed especially to accommodate European trade. Instead the landlord-stranger relationship was a process through which African societies permitted foreign institutions to influence their social structures. Map, notes.