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Acholi Intellectuals
Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960
Häftad, 2024
398 kr
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Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the colonial transition in northern Uganda. The book …
Risks of Knowledge
Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990
Av David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Inbunden, 2004
935 kr
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In February 1990 assailants murdered Kenya's distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Robert Ouko. The horror of the attack, the images of his mutilated and burned corpse, the evidence of a notorious cover-up, and the revelations of the pressures, conflicts, and …
Risks of Knowledge
Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990
Av David William Cohen, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Häftad, 2004
398 kr
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In February 1990 assailants murdered Kenya's distinguished Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Robert Ouko. The horror of the attack, the images of his mutilated and burned corpse, the evidence of a notorious cover-up, and the revelations of the pressures, conflicts, and …
We Are Fighting the World
A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999
Av Gary Kynoch
Inbunden, 2005
916 kr
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Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South …
We Are Fighting the World
A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999
Av Gary Kynoch
Häftad, 2005
359 kr
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Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South …
Natures of Colonial Change
Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei
Inbunden, 2006
943 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context—the Transkei—subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid.In the late nineteenth …
Natures of Colonial Change
Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei
Häftad, 2006
373 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context—the Transkei—subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid.In the late nineteenth …
Forger's Tale
The Search for Odeziaku
Inbunden, 2006
755 kr
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Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local …
Forger's Tale
The Search for Odeziaku
Häftad, 2006
381 kr
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Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local …
Imagining Serengeti
A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
Inbunden, 2007
943 kr
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Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the …
Imagining Serengeti
A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
Häftad, 2007
373 kr
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Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the …
Fighting the Greater Jihad
Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913
Häftad, 2007
417 kr
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In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French, …
Heterosexual Africa?
The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
Inbunden, 2008
943 kr
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Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for …
Heterosexual Africa?
The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
Häftad, 2008
398 kr
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Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for …
Intonations
A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
2008
1112 kr
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Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music …
Intonations
A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
2008
457 kr
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Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music …
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
Inbunden, 2008
943 kr
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In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients' access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country's …
Healing Traditions
African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820–1948
Häftad, 2008
398 kr
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In August 2004, South Africa officially sought to legally recognize the practice of traditional healers. Largely in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and limited both by the number of practitioners and by patients' access to treatment, biomedical practitioners looked toward the country's …
Recasting the Past
History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa
Av Derek R. Peterson, Giacomo Macola
Inbunden, 2009
1053 kr
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The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa's thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view. The book takes its place alongside a small but growing literature that highlights how, in …
Recasting the Past
History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa
Av Derek R. Peterson, Giacomo Macola
Häftad, 2009
434 kr
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The study of intellectual history in Africa is in its infancy. We know very little about what Africa's thinkers made of their times. Recasting the Past brings one field of intellectual endeavor into view. The book takes its place alongside a small but growing literature that highlights how, in …
Colonial Meltdown
Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression
Inbunden, 2009
935 kr
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Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. In Colonial Meltdown, Moses E. Ochonu challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive …
Colonial Meltdown
Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression
Häftad, 2009
402 kr
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Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. In Colonial Meltdown, Moses E. Ochonu challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive …
Law and the Prophets
Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
Inbunden, 2010
943 kr
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"No nation can win a battle without faith," Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force.The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of …
Law and the Prophets
Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977
Häftad, 2010
373 kr
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"No nation can win a battle without faith," Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force.The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of …
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Av Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
943 kr
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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses …
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Av Emily S. Burrill, Richard L. Roberts m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
402 kr
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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term domestic violence encompasses …
Our New Husbands Are Here
Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule
Häftad, 2011
402 kr
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In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by …
Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Häftad, 2012
402 kr
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For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and "American Negroes"—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American …
Taifa
Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race—both translatable as taifa in Swahili—were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by …
Trafficking in Slavery's Wake
Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa
Av Benjamin N. Lawrance, Richard L. Roberts
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the "end of slavery" in Africa from the late nineteenth …
