Search Results - "Journal of African history"

BRINGING HISTORY BACK IN: PAST, PRESENT, AND CONFLICT IN RWANDA AND THE EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO by MATHYS, GILLIAN

“…This article argues that on the borderland between eastern DRC and Rwanda, the past and its representations have been constantly manipulated. The cataclysmic…”
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METROPOLITAN BLUEPRINTS OF COLONIAL TAXATION? LESSONS FROM FISCAL CAPACITY BUILDING IN BRITISH AND FRENCH AFRICA, c. 1880–1940 by Frankema, Ewout, van Waijenburg, Marlous

“…The historical and social science literature is divided about the importance of metropolitan blueprints of colonial rule for the development of colonial…”
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PAST AND PRESENTISM: THE ‘PRECOLONIAL’ AND THE FORESHORTENING OF AFRICAN HISTORY by REID, RICHARD

“…This article considers the marginalization of precolonial history from mainstream Africanist scholarship in recent decades, and argues that this can be…”
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HISTORY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ETHIOPIA: THE ‘GREAT TRADITION’ AND THE COUNTER-HISTORIES OF NATIONAL FAILURE by MARZAGORA, SARA

“…Drawing from both fictional and non-fictional sources, this article traces the way history was conceptualised in twentieth-century Ethiopia by secular educated…”
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The hamitic hyopthesis; its origin and functions in time perspecive1 by Sanders, Edith R.

“…The anthropological and historical literature dealing with Africa abounds with references to a people called the ‘Hamites’. ‘Hamite’, as used in these…”
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THE ‘INTERIOR WORLD’ OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MALOTI-DRAKENSBERG MOUNTAINS by KING, RACHEL, CHALLIS, SAM

“…Over the last four decades researchers have cast the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains as a marginal refuge for ‘Bushmen’ amidst constricting nineteenth-century…”
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THE UNACCOUNTABLE CENSUS: COLONIAL ENUMERATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOMALI PEOPLE OF KENYA by WEITZBERG, KEREN

“…In 2010, the Kenyan government annulled national census results due to concerns that Somalis in the country had been over-counted. This article traces the…”
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AFRO-CHRISTIAN SYNCRETISM IN THE KINGDOM OF KONGO by THORNTON, JOHN K.

“…This article examines the way in which Christianity and Kongo religion merged to produce a syncretic result. After showing that the Kongo church grew up under…”
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WHAT WAS THE INDIGÉNAT? THE ‘EMPIRE OF LAW’ IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA by MANN, GREGORY

“…What was the indigénat? This article approaches this question via three arguments. First, a study of the indigénat (the regime of administrative sanctions…”
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POSSIBILITY AND CONSTRAINT: AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by COOPER, FREDERICK

“…On the fiftieth anniversary of an ambiguous event – the referendum giving French Africans the choice of immediate independence or a new status within a ‘French…”
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THE DIASPORA OF AFRICANS LIBERATED FROM SLAVE SHIPS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Domingues da Silva, Daniel, Eltis, David, Misevich, Philip, Ojo, Olatunji

“…This article uses the extensive documentation of Africans liberated from slave vessels to explore issues of identity and freedom in the nineteenth-century…”
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THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AFRICA by HOPKINS, A. G.

“…The purpose of this article is to promote the revival of African economic history. Poverty, the most pressing issue confronting the continent, has received…”
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THE AFFECTIVE, THE INTELLECTUAL, AND GENDER HISTORY by Hunt, Nancy Rose

“…The integration of gender as a vibrant stream within African historical writing suggests a remarkable success story with many prominent historians and fresh…”
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FRONTIER SECURITY IN NORTH EAST AFRICA: CONFLICT AND COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE MARGINS c. 1930–60 by WHITTAKER, HANNAH

“…This article explores colonial development policy on the margins of British East Africa. It argues that much like current development practice in the region,…”
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BUILDING THE CITY OF THE FUTURE: VISIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF MODERNITY IN GHANA'S AKOSOMBO TOWNSHIP by MIESCHER, STEPHAN F.

“…Akosombo Township, designed by the Greek urbanist Constantinos Doxiadis, is the model city at the foot of the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana's largest…”
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POLITICS OF THE SOIL: SEPARATISM, AUTOCHTHONY, AND DECOLONIZATION AT THE KENYAN COAST by Prestholdt, Jeremy

“…This article examines the perceived interdependence of territorial rights and social identity in colonial Kenya. In the early 1960s, attempts to win full…”
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THE NATIVE VILLAGE DEBATE IN PIETERMARITZBURG, 1848–1925: REVISITING THE ‘SANITATION SYNDROME’ by EPPRECHT, MARC

“…This article examines the history of debates around the creation of a ‘native village’ in Pietermaritzburg culminating in the construction of the city's first…”
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POPPIES AND GOLD: OPIUM AND LAW-MAKING ON THE WITWATERSRAND, 1904–10 by WAETJEN, THEMBISA

“…In the wake of the South African war, the indenture and transport of over 63,000 Chinese men to gold mines in the Transvaal sparked a rush to supply smoking…”
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ALL THE KABAKA'S WIVES: MARITAL CLAIMS IN BUGANDA'S 1953–5 KABAKA CRISIS by SUMMERS, CAROL

“…When Britain withdrew recognition from Kabaka Mutesa II in 1953, considering him disloyal for failure to advocate for the new governor's progressive…”
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AFRICAN COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN: THE DIASPORIC LIFE OF YOHANNES, THE ETHIOPIAN PILGRIM WHO BECAME A COUNTER-REFORMATION BISHOP by SALVADORE, MATTEO

“…The article chronicles the diasporic life of the Cyprus-born Ethiopian priest Yoḥannǝs (1509–65), who, after traveling far and wide across Europe and to…”
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