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 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | The Lebanese in West Africa |
| Author: | Winder, Richard B. |
| Year: | 1962 |
| Periodical: | Comparative Studies in Society and History |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | April |
| Pages: | 296-333 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | West Africa French Equatorial Africa |
| Subjects: | Lebanese Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500012342 |
| Abstract: | This study is concerned with the Major Arab minority in West Africa, the Lebanese, but it also includes the Syrians who from the next group, and whose patterns are very similar to those of the Lebanese. The term 'West Africa' covers here former French Equatorial Africa and all other west-coast countries from Gambia through to Rio Muni. Modern Lebanese emigration began about 1850; This westwards emigration for geographic, and in more recent times for political, economic and religious pressures, goes to the U.S., Brazil and Africa. In West Africa the Lebanese had somehow to fit in between the indigenous African population and the European colonials, without assimilating to their culture but with remarkable adaptation to both. They often used to refer to themselves as the hyphen between Africans and Europeans. Lebanese emigration in general - Early history - Economic life - Social aspects - Political - Conclusion. |
