Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Colonial Heads of Cacheu


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Lists of office-holders - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Colonial Heads of the Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Colonial Heads of Djibouti (French Somaliland) / FTAI (Afars and Issas)
Colonial Heads of Port Cresson and Bassa Cove
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Lists_of_office-holders   (820 words)

  
 Portuguese Guinea - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cacheu, in Guinea-Bissau, was one of the largest slave markets in Africa for a time.
Portuguese Guinea was administered as part of the Cape Verde Islands colony until 1879, when it was separated from the islands to become its own colony.
At the turn of the 20th century, Portugal began a campaign against the animist tribes of the interior, with the help of the coastal Islamic population.
www.iridis.com /Portuguese_Guinea   (547 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Cacheu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cacheu became one of the major slave centers, and a sm...
to the south and the Guinea-Bissau region of Cacheu to the west.
Colonial Heads of São João Baptista de Ajudá (9486 bytes)
www.bambooweb.com /articles/c/a/Cacheu.html   (234 words)

  
 Free Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
lists of people in various offices and positions, including heads of states or of subnational entities (in no particular order).
Current incumbents may also be found in the countries' articles ( main article and " Politics of ") and the list of national leaders, recent changes on 2005 in politics, and past leaders on State leaders by year and Colonial governors by year.
abdication, assassinated persons, cabinet, chancellor, ex-monarchs (20th century), head of government, head of state, lieutenant governor, mayor, military commanders, minister (and ministers by portfolio below), order of precedence, peerage, president, prime minister, Reichstag participants (1792), Secretary of State.
www.freeencyclopedia.net /index.php?title=Lists_of_office-holders   (217 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Lists of office-holders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Heads of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications
Heads of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs
Heads of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Lists_of_Incumbents   (1251 words)

  
 Index Ba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The head of ORTF recommended him to Prime Minister (later Pres.) Georges Pompidou, and during the 1960s and '70s Balladur was a member of Pompidou's staff, serving as adviser (1964-68) and becoming deputy secretary-general to the president (1969) and then secretary-general (1974).
After Uruguay adopted a form of government in which the executive branch consisted of a nine-man council, Batlle was elected head of the council for 1955-56 and remained a member of it until 1959, after his Colorado Party was overwhelmed by the opposition Blanco Party in the November 1958 elections.
In 1973 he was made head of the CC department of science and education.
manic-raven.com /rulers/indexb1.html   (19504 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Formerly the Portuguese colony In politics and in history, a colony is an administrative unit under the control of a geographically- distinct entity, usually an autonomous state.
The term "informal colony" is used by some historians to describe a country which is under the de facto control of another state, although this description is often contentious....
The region borders Senegal to the north, the Guinea-Bissau regions of Bafatá, Bissau and Biombo to the east, the Rio Geba/Guinea-Bissau region of Quinara to the south and the Guinea-Bissau region of Cacheu to the west.
www.wikimirror.com /Guinea-Bissau   (5322 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago encyclopedia and background information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
lists of people in various offices and positions, including heads of states or of subnational entities.
Heads of state of Democratic People's Republic of Angola
Heads of government of Democratic People's Republic of Angola
trinidadforum.paellaman.com /Trinidad_and_Tobago_Encyclopedia_browse.php?title=Lists_of_office-holders   (799 words)

  
 The Banknotes of Guinea-Bissau
The history of Portugal’s colonies in Africa is well documented, as is the criticism of their administration and exploitation of these colonies.
As Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony within close proximity to Portuguese Guinea, and because many Cape Verdeans had come to live and work in the mainland colony, the aims of the PAIGC included the liberation of Cape Verde.
Representations of the bull’s head are used in other areas of Bijago culture, notably as a mask in the initiation dance of the Bijago girls.
www.pjsymes.com.au /articles/Guinea-Bissau.htm   (6730 words)

  
 MapZones.com : Guinea Bissau Map
The Gabú Plain occupies the northeastern portion of the country and is drained by the Cacheu and Geba rivers and their tributaries.
In 1879 the region was constituted a Portuguese colony, and border disputes with the French were settled by treaty in 1886.
According to this constitution, the president, who is directly elected to a five-year term, is head of state.
atlas.mapzones.com /guinea_bissau/guinea_bissau.php   (1843 words)

  
 Migration and religion in Manjak society (Guinea Bissau)
To the northeast, beyond the old harbour town of Cacheu (once the colonial capital of Portuguese Guinea), lies the inaccessible area of the Cobiana ethnic group.
The few head of cattle found there today are invariably owned by the elderly male heads of extended families.
The empty bier, carried on the heads of bearers supposed to be in trance, is then used as a divination instrument answering questions concerning the cause of death, possible sorcery connotations, and the distribution of the inheritance.
www.shikanda.net /african_religion/socio.htm   (8361 words)

  
 Róbinson Rojas.- Andrew Manley: GUINEA BISSAU/SENEGAL: WAR, CIVIL WAR AND THE CASAMANCE QUESTION (November 1998).- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the transition to elections in 1994, Guinea-Bissau's – recent – past as an insurrectionary Portuguese colony featured heavily in the rhetoric of many newly formed political parties, and Vieira and his colleagues, who had taken power in 1980, were with increasing frequency accused of having hijacked the revolution.
[In Casamance] as in the rest of Senegambia, colonial administrative practice [the imposition on populations of non-local provincial and canton chiefs] aggravated the persistence of cleavages, of resentments and of violence in the relationships between different groups and sub-groups.
The repressive nature of colonial and post-colonial state power [lengthy, bloody 'pacification', forced labour etc.] is permanently reflected in Basse Casamance by a latent hostility to all forms of political or administrative authority.
www.rrojasdatabank.org /guinea.htm   (8344 words)

  
 AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board - Maps & Listings of Countries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After Radama II died in 1868, Madagascar saw a period of fighting against the colonial ambitions of the French in the late 19th century which was only thwarted by a British-sponsored general European agreement that preserved Madagascar's independence.
The Burgundian colony there thrived as the continued troubles in France brought immigrants to the more serene Kingdom, and by 1700, 100 years after its founding, Janszoon's Land consisted of a prosperous string of settlements along the southeastern corner and the small island to the south of that.
Thus did Janszoon's Land come to be a largely French-speaking colony of Burgundy, and even as the mother country had its own troubles, with two major languages and extensive continental commitments, the colony became accustomed to acting on its own.
www.alternatehistory.com /Discussion/archive/index.php/t-4014.html   (18760 words)

  
 REFUGEES, DISPLACED PERSONS, EXILES
The conflict in the former Portuguese colony began on 7 June when a breakaway faction of disgruntled military veterans seized the main army garrison and international airport in the capital, Bissau.
The current dispute was triggered when President Vieira fired the head of the armed forces, Brigadier Ansumane Mane, on June 5, accusing him of allowing arms to be smuggled to rebels in the southern Senegalese province of Casamance.
The majority of the city's residents have fled, and groups of civilians numbering into the tens of thousands are without food, drinking water or health care in the country's interior.
www.msu.edu /course/pls/461/stein/refugees.htm   (7328 words)

  
 [No title]
Supporters of the PAIGC have been celebrating with great enthusiasm, including congratulations from the heads of State of Senegal, France, Cape Verde, and Portugal.
The old paternalism of the colonial era which suggested the Africans were not ready for independence nor capable of observing democratic institutions has been laid to rest.
There was little question that the commercial elites resisted the state planned economy from the very beginning but their resistance was ineffective in the revolutionary moment of decolonization and democratization in Portugal and its former African colonies.
www.umassd.edu /specialprograms/caboverde/dem1.html   (2251 words)

  
 Teralight, Ltd. - Uniting the Old World with the New   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
head of government: President Yahya A. JAMMEH (since 18 October 1996; note - from 1994 to 1996 was he Chairman of the Junta); Vice President Isatou Njie SAIDY (since 20 March 1997); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first country in colonial Africa to gain its independence.
Jerry RAWLINGS, head of state since 1981, won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000.
www.teralight.com /ssa3.php   (6214 words)

  
 Stefano Dighero - Senegal/Guinea Bissau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The capital is Bissau and the main cities are Gabu', Bafata' and, on the coast, Cacheu.
After a shower we went out dinner at St.Louis, at the restaurant of theHotel de la Poste, where there is a charming colonial atmosphere.Inside, the walls are covered with fl and white pictures of thecolonial period, showing the former splendour of the city under theFrench empire.
St.Louis was the first colonial french settlement in Africa and datesback to 1659.
www.dsv.nl /~michael/senegalc.htm   (11454 words)

  
 FTR2002/UN Treaty Bodies
Presenting his development plan for Africa, the OMEGA project, the President noted the failure of the development policies hitherto practised in Africa and funded by foreign aid and external debt, and proposed to his fellow Heads of State a new approach to development based on education and the establishment of infrastructure.
The republic extends as far as Tanaf (Senegal) in the north and is bounded to the south by the river Cacheu (Guinea-Bissau), to the east by Gambia and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
the colonies of French Guinea, Ivory Coast and Dahomey, Saloum, which corresponds to the modern administrative region of Kaolack, and Casamance, were retained as an integral part of the colony of Senegal.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord2002/documentation/tbodies/cerd-c-408-add2.htm   (6475 words)

  
 Southern Messenger — Constitution of the United States of America
You may imagine a few Gurkhas here and there but in reality literally tens of thousands of Asians fought in the WW1 trenches, and the deserts and jungles of WW2.
In view of the condition of the war torn South this was an incredible achievement.
The Confederate Post Office Department and Post Master General Reagan provided a great service for the people of the South and are to be commended for their devotion to duty and country.
www.southernmessenger.org /History.htm   (14734 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
COLONIAL ARMY AND SOCIETY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA (UBAH, C. N.), KADUNA, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY, 380pp, PB, 1998, subject(s)/keyword(s): HISTORY, price US$55.5
NIGERIA'S HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT (IROANUSI, SAM), LAGOS, SAM IROANUSI PUBLICATIONS, 180pp, PB, 1999, subject(s)/keyword(s): HISTORY, POLITICS, price US$18.5
COLOURED QUESTION IN THE CONTEXT OF AN ANALYSIS OF THE COLONIAL AND WHITE SETTLER RACIAL IDEOLOGY, AND AFRICAN NATIONALISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ZIMBABWE, ZAMBIA AND MALAWI
www.meabooks.com /African_books/HISTORY/history.htm   (7177 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.