Download or read book The World and a Very Small Place in Africa written by Donald R. Wright and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the effects of "global" phenomena -- trans-Saharan trade, European expansion, the rise of an Atlantic plantation complex, industrialization, imperialism, colonialism, world wars, growth of a world market, political independence and economic dependence -- on the way of life in Niumi, a small area at the mouth of the Gambia river in West Africa (now called The Gambia), over the last six-seven hundred years. Written in clear, accessible prose, and drawing on archival and oral traditions, the work considers global developments from a local/regional perspective.