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Title: | Attitudes and Reactions towards the Lebanese in Sierra Leone during the Colonial Period |
Author: | Kaniki, Martin H.Y. |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 97-113 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | immigrants Lebanese History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/483752 |
Abstract: | The struggle and economic ascendancy of the early poverty-stricken Lebanese immigrants in West Africa have received the attention of scholars in recent years. But the responses of their 'hosts' still remain a neglected subject. Such responses took different forms in different localities at a given time, and at different times in a given locality. In Sierra Leone attitudes and reactions towards the Lebanese ranged from open contempt to conditioned respect, from false praise to total condemnation, and from mere empty propaganda to physical violence. Probably the most memorable reaction towards these 'strangers' there was the famous anti-Lebanese rice riots of July and August 1919. The riots and their consequences - subject of this essay - are important for five reasons, which the author indicates. After touching briefly on the events preceding the riots, the author examines the riots in their economic, social and political aspects. Notes. |