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A History of Exploitation of the Colonised in Northern Nigeria During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Unekwu Friday Itodo
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a devastating event that killed millions of people around the world. In Northern Nigeria, the pandemic was particularly deadly, and the British colonial administrati...
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Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule, by Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jantjie Xaba
Published in African Historical Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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COVID-19 Response in Kenya, March 2020 to March 2021: A Comparative Analysis from a Historical Perspective African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Julius Gathogo
Abstract This study explored Kenya’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (hereafter COVID-19) between 13 March 2020, when the first confirmed case was publicly announced, and 8 March 2021, when the country’s vaccination campaigns against the scourge began. The vaccination campaigns began after the country received some doses through the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX). Although African
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Forceful Sexual Behaviours Against Women in Qonce (King William’s Town)’s Townships in the 1950s and 1960s African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Siphoesihle Gumede
Abstract Both anthropology and history authors have written about the increase in predatory masculine sexual identities amongst the AmaXhosa, including rural and urban attitudes, and within such scholarship, issues such as rape have also emerged. However, the issue of rape has not been fully addressed, especially by anthropologists in the mid-twentieth century. The purpose of this article is to address
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Reflections on the Birth of the University of Dodoma, by Idris S. Kikula African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Kokeli Peter Ryano
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2023)
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Transgressing Disciplinary Bounds: Historiographical Directions in South Africa’s History/Heritage Affinities African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Ralph Manyane
Abstract A stronger history/heritage relationship with a much longer genealogy than has hitherto been examined is explored in this article. Deploying a cultural-historical method alongside the Tswaing and Mphebatho museums, this study attempts to open more and new space for exploring the making of South Africa’s history- and heritage-making. Investing both transdisciplinary fields with potentially
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A Critique of Leprosy Control Approaches in Northern Nigeria, 1900–1965 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Reuben Luka Shekarau
Abstract The article examines two collaborative approaches to control leprosy in northern Nigeria. In the first approach, the colonial government and the Native Authorities (NA) established leprosy settlements under the supervision of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association (BELRA). The second approach involved the missions and the NA, which led to the establishment of provincial leprosaria in
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No Maize, No Life: Conservation, Maize Production, and African Responses in Colonial Southern Malawi, 1920–1960 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Bryson Nkhoma
Abstract This study explores the history of maize production to demonstrate the extent to which colonial conservation interspersed with economic expediency stifled African production from 1920 to 1960. Drawing on archival and oral evidence from southern Malawi, it argues that colonial restriction on maize production to conserve the country’s soil fertility was an excuse by the state to achieve various
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Call for Papers: The Post-colonial State in Africa—Historical Transformations, Development and Challenges of Emancipation African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-05-18
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2023)
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A History of Nigeria, by Toyin Falola and Mathew M. Heaton African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Kefas Lamak
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 53, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Colonial Attitudes and Responses to Drunkenness: The Case of the 1820 Settlement, 1820–1845 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Amina Marzouk Chouchene
Abstract This article examines colonial attitudes and responses to drunkenness in the 1820 settlement from 1820 to 1845. It relies on some of the 1820 settlers’ personal writings and the Graham’s Town Journal as primary sources. It seeks to contribute to existing scholarship on the 1820 settlers by exploring how discourses of race and class profoundly influenced colonial attitudes towards drunkenness
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The “Malnutrition Syndrome”: African Diets, Nutrition Science, and Colonial Research in Southern Africa African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Bryson Nkhoma
Published in African Historical Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Monuments of the Exiles and Memorialisation of Shared Heritage Between Mozambique and Tanzania African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Nancy Rushohora
Abstract The Tanzanian landscape has a long history with exiled nationalist organisations from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The case of Mozambique is unique. It was in Dar es Salaam that FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) was born in 1962; but the great Mozambican nationalist Edward Mondlane was assassinated in the same city in 1969. This paper presents the ruins of
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Medical Missions and Proselytisation: The Case of the Church of the Nazarene Medical Missions’ Proselytisation Activities in Swaziland, 1925–1968 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Shokahle R. Dlamini
Abstract This article subscribes to the view that the provision of medical services along with the gospel to Africa was the work of both medical missionaries and African agents. Its central argument is that medical missionaries of the Church of the Nazarene enhanced proselytisation in Swaziland (present-day Eswatini) through the provision of medical care and the training of Swazi nurses who doubled
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The Political Economy of Irrigation Development and Peasant Food Production in Colonial Malawi, 1945–1961 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Bryson G. Nkhoma
Abstract This article explores the development of irrigation farming in Malawi from 1945 to 1961. It traces the origins of irrigation farming, strategies for its promotion, and the challenges that impinged on its success in colonial Malawi. In particular, it demonstrates the extent to which externally driven colonial agricultural developments like irrigation failed to achieve their intended purpose
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A Social History of Ethiopia: The Northern and Central Highlands from Early Medieval Times to the Rise of Emperor Tewodros II, by Richard Pankhurst African Historical Review Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Reviewed by Eyasu Erbo Dido
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 53, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Unsteady Is the Cross: Catholic Missionaries, Marriage, and Fang Communities in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1914–1945 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Jeremy Rich
Abstract Between 1914 and 1945, French Catholic missionaries and Gabonese priests tried to impose their faith and ideals of family life on Fang communities in the rural Estuary region of the French colony of Gabon. Catholic evangelists offered benefits such as education as well as threats of spiritual punishment to convert Fang people. However, Fang men and women often rejected these demands. While
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Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate, by Mohamad El-Merheb African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Syahrul Rahmat
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2021)
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The Making of a Nation: The Northern Territories and the Colonial Discourse of Nationhood in the Gold Coast, 1897–1950 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Moses Diyaane Awinsong
Abstract This article examines the exclusionary experiences of northern Ghana in the empire, which kept it at the periphery of Gold Coast national consciousness up to 1950. If the “nation” is an imagined community, as Benedict Anderson asserts, then the Gold Coast was a product of colonial discourse merging varying interests into a multicultural nation. The article explores why the Northern Territories
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Revolutionary Ideals, Mass Action, Concrete Realities, and Transition to Democracy: Theoretical Notes on the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) During the Last Phase of the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Kongko Louis Makau, Ian Liebenberg
Abstract This exploratory contribution presents but one angle of the transfer of power in South Africa following the banning of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) in South Africa played a short-lived but important role in political mobilisation before the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy through
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Revolutionary Ideals, Mass Action, Concrete Realities, and Transition to Democracy: Theoretical Notes on the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) During the Last Phase of the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Kongko Louis Makau, Ian Liebenberg
Abstract This exploratory contribution presents but one angle of the transfer of power in South Africa following the banning of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) in South Africa played a short-lived but important role in political mobilisation before the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy through
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Indoda Ebisithanda (“The Man Who Loved Us”)—The Reverend James Laing among the amaXhosa, 1831–1836, edited by Sandra Rowoldt Shell African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Kwesi D. L. S. Prah
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2021)
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The Journals of Sophia Pigot: Performing Gentility in the Eastern Cape African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Amina Marzouk Chouchene
Abstract This article examines the experience of an 1820 settler woman, Sophia Pigot, who immigrated with her family to the eastern Cape as part of the 1819 government-sponsored scheme. Existing scholarship has dealt with the experiences of some 1820 settler wives who left accounts of their experiences. However, Sophia Pigot has not been the subject of historical research. Based on her journals, this
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Cameroon 1884–Present (2018): The History of a People, by Victor Julius Ngoh African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Roland Ndille
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2020)
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“Little More than Rich Soil?”: The Anatomy and Politics of the Cape Bat Guano Trade, 1890–1920 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Hendrik Snyders
Abstract The bat guano trade, although a small, localised, and secondary enterprise was as significant for the nineteenth and early twentieth century Cape fertiliser trade as its more lucrative and prominent counterpart, the seabird guano trade. Located in relatively inaccessible and geographically dispersed caves on the Southern Cape coast and following a long struggle to be acknowledged as a useful
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Kwame Nkrumah’s Overthrow and Its Effect on National Team Players (1957–1980) African Historical Review Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Ernest Yeboah Acheampong, Michel Raspaud
Abstract Studies have revealed the evolution of African football from the 1980s to the 2000s by explaining how the migration of football talents from the continent intensified. Before the 1980s, African footballers were an integral part of sports labour migration to North America but this topic has evoked little scholarly interest in the history of football migration. This paper analyses the movement
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Pan-Africanism: A History, by Hakim Adi African Historical Review Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Ibrahim B. Anoba (Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba)
Published in African Historical Review (Vol. 52, No. 1, 2020)
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A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa, by A. Swidler and S. Cotts Watkins African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-05-12 Clement Masakure
(2019). A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa, by A. Swidler and S. Cotts Watkins. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 49-53.
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Afrikaner Identity: Dysfunction and Grief, by Yves Vanderhaeghen African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-25 F. A. Mouton
(2019). Afrikaner Identity: Dysfunction and Grief, by Yves Vanderhaeghen. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 54-55.
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A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa: The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present, by Jeremiah Mutio Kitunda African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Mark Nyandoro
(2019). A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa: The Flower of Life and Death from 1800 to the Present, by Jeremiah Mutio Kitunda. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 62-67.
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Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, by Emily Callaci African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Letshwiti B. Tutwane
(2019). Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, by Emily Callaci. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 79-81.
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The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire, by John H. Hanson African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Muhammed Haron
(2019). The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire, by John H. Hanson. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 26-31.
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Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development: Whither the African Renaissance?, edited by Richard A. Olaniyan and Ehimika A. Ifidon African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Emmanuel K. Botlhale
(2019). Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development: Whither the African Renaissance?, edited by Richard A. Olaniyan and Ehimika A. Ifidon. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 21-22.
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Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa, by Christi van der Westhuizen African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Fiona Davids
(2019). Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa, by Christi van der Westhuizen. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 23-25.
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Critique of Black Reason, by Achille Mbembe African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-24 Malebogo Kgalemang
(2019). Critique of Black Reason, by Achille Mbembe. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 36-38.
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A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery: Reflections on Art and National Identity, by Anna Tietze African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-16 William O. Lesitaokana
(2019). A History of the Iziko South African National Gallery: Reflections on Art and National Identity, by Anna Tietze. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 39-41.
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National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa, by Jane Carruthers African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-16 Ackson M. Kanduza
(2019). National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa, by Jane Carruthers. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 32-33.
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The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda, by Jennifer Tappan African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Mark Nyandoro
(2019). The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda, by Jennifer Tappan. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 68-72.
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We Die Like Brothers: The Sinking of the SS Mendi, by John Gribble and Graham Scott African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Ackson M. Kanduza
(2019). We Die Like Brothers: The Sinking of the SS Mendi, by John Gribble and Graham Scott. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 34-35.
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Jan Smuts and the Indian Question, by Vineet Thakur African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Garth Ahnie
(2019). Jan Smuts and the Indian Question, by Vineet Thakur. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 17-20.
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Reconfigured Agrarian Relations in Zimbabwe, by Toendepi Shonhe African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Sibanengi Ncube
(2019). Reconfigured Agrarian Relations in Zimbabwe, by Toendepi Shonhe. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 59-61.
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Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa, by Hedley Twidle African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Connie Rapoo
(2019). Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa, by Hedley Twidle. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 73-76.
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Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS, by Kristen E. Cheney African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Clement Masakure
(2019). Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS, by Kristen E. Cheney. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 45-48.
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Botswana—A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough, by Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-03-02 Unaludo Sechele
(2019). Botswana—A Modern Economic History: An African Diamond in the Rough, by Ellen Hillbom and Jutta Bolt. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 77-78.
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The House of Tshatshu: Power, Politics and Chiefs North-West of the Great Kei River, c1818–2018, by Anne K. Mager and Phiko J. Velelo African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Sipokazi Madida
(2019). The House of Tshatshu: Power, Politics and Chiefs North-West of the Great Kei River, c1818–2018, by Anne K. Mager and Phiko J. Velelo. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 42-44.
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Constance: One Road to Take—The Life and Photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), by Peter Elliott African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Cornelis Muller
(2019). Constance: One Road to Take—The Life and Photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914–2000), by Peter Elliott. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 56-58.
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Silencing Evidence: Reflections on the Scholarship on African Involvement in the European Slave Trade African Historical Review Pub Date : 2020-02-13 France Ntloedibe
(2019). Silencing Evidence: Reflections on the Scholarship on African Involvement in the European Slave Trade. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 1-16.
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The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Asa Mudzimu
(2019). The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 98-101.
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Iron in the Soul: The Leaders of the Official Parliamentary Opposition in South Africa, 1910–1993 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-05-13 Albert Grundlingh
(2019). Iron in the Soul: The Leaders of the Official Parliamentary Opposition in South Africa, 1910–1993. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 87-88.
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Paul Kruger: Toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881–1900 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-05-10 F. J. Nöthling
(2019). Paul Kruger: Toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881–1900. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 102-103.
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The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-05-06 France N. Ntloedibe
(2019). The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves. African Historical Review: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 89-91.
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Colonised, Decolonised, Centralised, Decentralised: The Development of Central Banking in Mozambique, 1975– 2010 African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Grietjie Verhoef, Carmélia Pateguana
Abstract The history of financial institutions in decolonising countries and newly independent states, especially in Africa, shows the politically contentious nature of control over financial institutions, especially the central bank. This article investigates the particular circumstances surrounding the emergence of a central bank in Mozambique: how local conditions influenced the shaping of new financial
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Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation: A Tale of Two Skulls African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Nancy Rushohora
Abstract Colonial masters considered it their right to take human remains collected from colonies or plundered as a result of war. The skulls of Chief Mkwawa and the sub-chief Songea were looted in the same manner from Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to Germany. While Chief Mkwawa’s skull was returned in 1954, the demands for sub-chief Songea’s skull are ongoing, with the Tanzanian community contesting ownership
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Battle and Capture in North Africa: The Experience of Two Italian Servicemen African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Karen Horn
Abstract Raffaello Cei and Giovanni Palermo both served in the Italian military forces during the Second World War. Following battles against Allied forces in Libya, both men became prisoners of war in the Union of South Africa. While thousands more Italian captives had similar experiences to those of Cei and Palermo, this article looks at the memoirs of these two men with the aim of enriching our
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Tradition and Modernity: The Water Sector in Morocco during the French Protectorate (1912–1956) African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Carmen Ascanio-Sanchez, Miguel Suárez Bosa, Juan Carlos Almeida Pérez
Abstract This article aims to analyse the water policy of the French Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956). After the proclamation of the protectorate, actions on the part of the new rulers affected both the modern and traditional water sectors. The authorities aimed to regulate water resources to help economic growth and favour the settlers living in the occupied areas. On the management side, they
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Women, Migration and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945–1975, by Jeanne Marie Penvenne African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Anusa Daimon
Penvenne’s book illuminates the important role that women played in the rise of a vibrant colonial cashew economy in Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Mozambique) from 1945 to 1975. It moves away from the orthodox male-dominated history of labour migration within a colonial economy and chronicles a nuanced gendered history of the cashew economy when Mozambique became the world’s largest combined producer of
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Undesirable Practices: Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930–1972, by Jessica Cammaert African Historical Review Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Ivo Mhike
Undesirable Practices makes a historical intervention on aspects that have come to define contemporary social, human-rights and policy-oriented studies on Africa. Organised into six distinct chapters, it weaves a narrative that explores colonial and post-colonial constructs of nudity, circumcision, prostitution, slavery and trafficking in Northern Ghana from 1930 to 1972. These social processes were
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Retelling “the Same Old Stories in Books with Brand-New Covers”: Three More Biographical Studies on Jan Smuts African Historical Review Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Garth Ahnie
(2018). Retelling “the Same Old Stories in Books with Brand-New Covers”: Three More Biographical Studies on Jan Smuts. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 151-158.
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Worlds at War: The Local and the Global in New Histories of the South African War African Historical Review Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Chris Holdridge
All modern wars are global in reach, drawing in international actors as active participants or concerned observers no matter how peripheral the conflict might at first appear. With this in mind, it is received wisdom among historians that the South African War “was not simply a small colonial war of local significance, but was rather a conflict with global ramifications.” The war was global in that
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The Historical Roots of Terrorism in West Africa African Historical Review Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Tilman Dedering
Boko Haram has inscribed its name on the depressing record of current terrorist movements through suicide bombings, mass killings, abduction of civilians and sexual slavery. Alexander Thurston’s study, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement, is a noteworthy attempt to disentangle the rise of this movement to global infamy by examining the complexities of radical Islam in the Lake Chad