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Helion & Company Battle on the Lomba 1987: The Day a South African
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Zanzibari Muslim Moderns
Book SynopsisZanzibari Muslim Moderns is a historical study of Zanzibar during the interwar years. This was a period marked by rapid intellectual and social change in the Muslim world, when ideas of Islamic progress and development were hotly debated. How did this process play out in Zanzibar? Based on a wide range of sourcesIslamic and colonial, private and publicAnne K. Bang examines how these concepts were received and promoted on the island, arguing that a new ideal emerged in its intellectual arena: the Muslim modern. Tracing the influences that shaped the outlook of this new figure, Bang draws lines to Islamic modernists in the Middle East, to local Sufi teachings, and to the recently founded state of Saudi Arabia. She presents the activities of the Muslim modern in the colonial employment system, as a contributor to international debates, as an activist in the community, and more. She also explores the formation of numerous faith- based associations during this
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Looh Press Ltd الثقافة
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Penguin Random House South Africa The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City's
Book SynopsisThe Cape Town book presents a fresh picture of the Mother City, one that brings together all its stories. From geology and beaches to forced removals and hip-hop, Nechama Brodie, author of the best-selling The Joburg book, has delved deeply into the hidden past of Cape Town to emerge with a lucid and compelling account of South Africa's first city, its landscape and its people. The book's 14 chapters trace the origins and expansion of Cape Town - from the City Bowl to the southern and coastal suburbs, the vast expanse of the Cape Flats and the sprawling northern areas. Offering a nuanced, yet balanced, perspective on Cape Town, the book includes familiar attractions like Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch and the Company's Garden, while also giving a voice to marginalised communities in areas such as Athlone, Langa, Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha. Many of the images in the book have never been published before, and are drawn from the archives of museums, universities and public institutions. This beautifully illustrated, information-rich book is the definitive portrait of the wind-blown, contradictory city at the southern tip of Africa that more than three million people call home.
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New York Consolidated Where Is Africa: Volume 1
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary illustrated reader unpacking imperialist representations of Africa by promoting dialogue, memory and everyday practice, and reimagining cultural institutions and the arts—from museums to academia, from architecture to art In 2017, curator and art historian Anita N. Bateman and architect and professor Emanuel Admassu initiated research on the traditional positioning and mispositioning of the arts across the African continent. Where Is Africa has been an extended set of exchanges with contemporary artists, curators, designers and academics who are actively engaged in representing the continent—both within and outside its geographic boundaries. By examining artist collectives, new currents in art history and the rise of contemporary art festivals in and about Africa from the past 10 years, the project unpacks the imperialist foundations of cultural institutions and their anthropological fascination with African objects, people and places. The interviews in Where Is Africa examine African and African-diasporic identities and spaces through questions of positionality in relation to specific disciplinary, cultural and political contexts. The texts address Afro-diasporic aesthetic practices and the curatorial, museological and artistic matrices that confront epistemologies of dominance and exclusion. The commissioned essays and images offer concise methodologies that expand or complicate issues addressed by the interviewees. Where Is Africa is a conceptual project that accompanies a conceptual place, driven by the desire to dislodge Africa from categorical fixity and the representational logics of nation-states. Africa can never be fully enclosed by the residue of colonial violence or the totalitarian gaze of neoliberalism; instead, it creates infinite malleability, where place and concept are untethered from each other. Contributors include: Mikael Awake, Salome Asega, Tau Tavengwa, Anthony Bogues, Jay Simple, Eric Gottesman, Rebecca Corey, Aida Mulkozi, Rakeb Sile, Mesai Haileleul, Mpho Matsipa, Niama Safia Sandy, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Rehema Chachage, Robel Temesgen, Valerie Amani, Meskerem Assegued, Elias Sime, Olalekan Jeyifous, Amanda Williams, Germane Barnes and Mario Gooden.
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Hachette Livre - BNF Alger Au Xviiie Siècle (Éd.1898)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Madagascar: Sa Description, Ses Habitants
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Hachette Livre - BNF Histoire Et Géographie de Madagascar Depuis La
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Hachette Livre - BNF Histoire de l'Éthiopie (Nubie Et Abyssinie):
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Hachette Livre - BNF La Vérité Sur l'Algérie
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Hachette Livre - BNF de l'Introduction Des Arméniens Catholiques En
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Hachette Livre - BNF Nouveau Voyage Dans Le Pays Des Nègres, Études
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Editions Flammarion Africa: The Fashion Continent
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion
Book SynopsisThis book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ways of understanding Armenian literature; propose new frameworks for mapping the post-Ottoman Mediterranean world; and navigate the challenges of writing national history in a globalized age. A century after the Armenian genocide, this book reimagines the borders of the “Armenian,” pointing to a fresh vision for the field of Armenian studies that is omnivorously comparative, deeply interconnected, and rich with possibility.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Moveable Armenia.- I. Rethinking Boundaries.- 2. The Age of the Gharīb: Strangers in the Medieval Mediterranean.- 3. Past the Mediterranean and Iran: A Comparative Study of Armenia as an Islamic Frontier, 1st/7th–5th/11th Centuries.- 4. A Fish out of Water? Medieval Armenia(ns) and the Mediterranean.- II. Connecting Histories.- 5. From "Autonomous" to "Interactive" Histories: World History's Challenge to Armenian Studies.- 6. Mapping Jerusalem: Re-Reading the City in the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean.- III. Breaking National and Imperial Paradigms.- 7. Between Anatolia and the Balkans: Tracing Armenians in the Post-Ottoman Order.- 8. Armeno-Turkish Writing and the Question of Hybridity.- 9. Wandering Minstrels, Moving Novels: The Case of Khach'atur Abovyan's Wounds of Armenia.- IV. Texturizing Diaspora.- 10. Weaving Images: Textile, Displacement, and Reframing the Borders of Visual Culture.- 11. Diasporic Flânerie: From Armenian Ruinenlust to Armenia's Walkscapes.- 12. Spaces of Difference, Spaces of Belonging: Negotiating Armenianness in Lebanon and France.- V. Placing Statehood.- 13. Contemporary Armenian Drama and World Literature.- 14. How to Write the History of the Third Republic (or How Not to Write It).- VI. Epilogue.- 15. The Mediterranean is Armenian.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape
Book SynopsisThis book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marginalized scientist, the instrumentalisation of science to settlers' political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous African experts. Including a variety of material, visual and textual sources, this study explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses their content and silences. The book traces Barber’s legacy across three continents in collections and archives, offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At the same time, it forges a nuanced argument, incorporating study of the North and South, the history of science and social history, and the past and the present.Table of Contents1 IntroductionPart I: African Experts and Science in the Cape2 African Farmers and Medical Plant Experts3 African Naturalists, Collectors, and TaxidermistsPart II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories4 Gender, Class and Competition5 Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection6 Barber’s Forging Scientific Practices and TheoriesPart III: Negotiating Belonging through Science7 Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers’ Supremacy and Land Rights8 Barber’s World of Birds as a Space of Gender Equality9 Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections10 ‘The fragments that are left behind’.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe
Book SynopsisThis book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.Trade Review“This extremely well written book will be the point of reference on this subject. It provides sagacious treatment of the many documents that can be brought to bear on the exchanges, and it places Ethiopia’s part in a new frame of reference.” (Andrew Kurt, Speculum, Vol. 97 (4), October, 2022)“This is a remarkable and fascinating book that opens up entirely new vistas on the cultural and political history of the fifteenth-century Mediterranean. To someone who is not an expert in Ethiopian history, the book conveys a great sense of authority; it is backed up by a formidable array of footnotes.” (David Abulafia, Al-Masāq, March 28, 2022)“Krebs has produced an impressive survey of Ethiopian-European relations and her volume will certainly find a place in the library of … Ethiopianists. To be sure, in light of Krebs’s masterful discussion of relics and material culture, readers will certainly look forward to her announced second monograph … .” (Matteo Salvadore, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Vol. 116 (4), 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction2. All the King's Treasures3. The Sons of Dawit4. The Rule of the Regents5. King Solomon’s Heirs6. Conclusion
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Springer International Publishing AG Landscapes and Landforms of the Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on regions for which until now the geomorphology was very poorly studied and relatively unknown. Nevertheless, the landforms and landscapes of the Horn of Africa are highly attractive, diverse and in a few cases unique, since they span very different environments, from highland plateaus and mountains to lowlands (even below sea level) and coastlines with a high degree of diversity and from monsoon to arid climate conditions. The main topics addressed in the book include the links between the geological evolution and the current large scale geomorphology of the Horn of Africa; the large differences between the highlands and lowlands climate, river hydrology and their variation through time within a climate change perspective. This part of the world was home of the very first hominids. The landscape in which they lived and evolved throughout the Pleistocene is described in comparison with the arid and inhospitable, though immensely scenic, environment of today. Perennial and ephemeral rivers with very different morphology, processes, and hydrology drain the area, and, in combination with the past and recent uplift, substantially contributed to provide the region with peculiar landscapes and landforms. Long lasting weathering and erosion processes result in a typical inselberg landscape such as the Bur region, or the currently exposed flatland of old peneplain surfaces. Their changes through time, induced by both natural and anthropogenic factors, are addressed by a couple of case studies. Though the region has few inhabitants, they had to struggle to find their livelihood in a land that offers poor resources. This resulted in landscape change and land degradation. Examples of human impact on the landscape are presented at different scales. This book provides readers interested in geography and geomorphology with essential scientific and educational information on the Landscapes and Landforms of Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia through simple, though scientifically, rigorous texts illustrated with several color maps and photos. One main prerogative of this book is therefore to give an insight into a region of the world where, for geographical and historical constraints, geomorphological investigation was very limited, thus enriching its intrinsic informative value.Table of ContentsChp. 1 Geomorphological landscapes of Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia. Paolo Billi and Piotr MigonChp. 2 Geology of the eastern Horn of Africa: a review and geomorphological perspectives. Ernesto Abbate, Mario Sagri and others.Chp. 3 The climate of the eastern Horn of Africa. Massimiliano Fazzini, Carlo Bisci, Paolo BilliChp. 4 River hydromorphology and flood hazard. Paolo Billi Chp. 5 Geomorphology of the Eritrean coasts. Paolo Ciavola Chp. 6 Somalia coast geomorphology. Paolo Ciavola .Chp. 7 Quaternary landscape evolution of the Homo erectus site of Buia, Eritrean Danakil. Massimiliano GhinassiChp 8. Geomorphology of the Samoti plain, Eritrean Danakil. Paolo Billi Chp. 9 Geomorphology of Afar. Jaques Varet Chp. 10 Geomorphological map of Somalia. Paolo Paron and Francesco DramisChp. 11 Landscape and landforms of northern Somalia. Bruno PetrucciChp. 12 Geomorphology of the ephemeral streams in the Daban basin , northern Somalia. Paolo BilliChp. 13. Landscape Evolution in the Mean Juba River Valley. Mauro ColtortiChp. 14 River drainage system evolution in Somalia. Paolo ParonChp. 15 Landscape change in Eritrea and Somalia. Neil MunroChp. 16 Landscape change, land degradation and sustainable land management in Eritrea. Hans Hurni, Thomas Kohler and co-authors Chp. 17 Land Degradation of Somalia. Chris Print
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Springer International Publishing AG Indo-Mozambicans in Maputo, 1947-1992: Oral
Book SynopsisThis book explores the experiences of ‘Indo-Mozambicans,’ citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century. Drawing from ethnographic interviews, the author illustrates why migration developed as both an identity marker and a survival tool for Indo-Mozambicans living in Maputo, in response to the series of independence movements and prolonged period of geo-political uncertainty that extended from 1947 to 1992. A unique examination of post-colonialism, the book argues that four pivotal moments in history forced migratory patterns and ethnic identity formations to emerge among Indo-Mozambicans, namely, the end of the British empire in India and the subsequent partition of India and Pakistan in 1947; the end of the Portuguese empire in India, with the annexation of Goa, Daman and Diu in 1961; the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975; and the civil war of Mozambique from 1977 to 1992. Framing these historical markers as trigger points for shifts in migration and identity formation, this book demonstrates the layered experiences of people subject to Portuguese colonialism and highlights the important perspective of those ‘left behind’ in migration studies.Table of ContentsPart I. Before the Beginning.- 1. Introduction and Methodology.- 2. Who are Indo-Mozambicans? A Chronology of Shifting Geography and Terminology.- 3. Conflating Space and Time in the Process of National Myth-making.- Part II. Religion, Race and Migration, 1947-1992.- 4. A Brief Oral History of Indo-Mozambican Life from 1947-1992.- 5. Indo-Mozambican Institutions: Hindu Interactions with the State.- 6. Muslims: The Making of the Self and Others among Transnational Merchants, 1961-1992.- 7. Mixed Race Belonging in Black Majority Spaces: Mulatto, Mestiço or Misto.- Part III. Concluding Thoughts on Post-coloniality.- 8. Malleable Identities & Imagined Communities in Contemporary Africa.
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Springer International Publishing AG Globalization and Africa’s Transition to Constitutional Rule: Socio-Political Developments in Nigeria
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V&R unipress GmbH Out of Empire Redefining Africas Place in the
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V&R unipress GmbH The Rise and Fall of a Muslim Regiment
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Alpha Edition The Nandi, their language and folk-lore
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Independently Published Jong Helde
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften No Women Jump Out!: Gender Exclusion, Labour
Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It documents the labour and class struggles between landowners and peasants both before and after the legalization and formation of trades and labour unions in 1940. It exposes the political and racial dynamics of British colonialism in the eastern Caribbean as never before. The racial dynamics are evident between white colonial administrators, landowners and mill and factory owners, as they struggled to maintain control over a black and coloured population in a changing world. The long overlooked history of the role of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) in facilitating the end of British colonialism is one of the surprising stories of this book, as is the astonishing role of women. Despite their exclusion from labour and trade union history, oral sources show women played a key role as labour organizers who defied employers by planning meetings and actively recruiting union members. They were always there, as domestic workers in urban areas, in the fields and in the factories. They served as recruiters and organizers, carried the lights for outdoor meetings and encouraged and stood behind the union leaders. Despite their central role, they did not «jump out», and their stories became forgotten, overlooked even, in the history of Caribbean labour.Table of ContentsContents: Historical Overview: Labour and Social Conditions – Sugar Monoculture in Decline – Women in a Modern Colony – The Foundations of Trade Unionism – Local Level Leadership – Gender Exclusion – Politics and Labour Unions.
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Indiana University Press The Desert Bones
Book SynopsisTrade Review"All too often, our concept of dinosaurs and deep time are based on fossils from Europe and North America. In this richly illustrated and readable volume, Jamale Ijouiher chronicles the Cretaceous fossil record of North Africa, one of the most exciting frontiers in paleontology research today. You'll learn all about African dinosaurs and the worlds they inhabited—the plants, the insects, the fish, and the other reptiles they lived with. This book goes to show that it's not just all about T. rex and Triceratops fighting in the jungles of ancient America; there were fascinating and fantastic dinosaurs that lived all over the world, and some of the most stunning new fossils are coming from Africa."—Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs"Jamale Ijouiher has brought together information from a wide variety of primary literature on the flora and fauna of this part of Gondwana during Cenomanian and early Turonian time. This information can give a very detailed picture of the medial Cretaceous evolution of an area which has a great deal of biogeographic significance. The Desert Bones will be of particular interest to anyone studying fossil communities and how ecosystems evolved over time"—Barbara Smith Grandstaff, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceMuseum AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Palaeoenvironments and Stratigraphy of North Africa2. The Flora of North Africa3. The Fauna of North Africa: Invertebrates4. The Fauna of North Africa: Vertebrates (fish)5. The Fauna of North Africa: Vertebrates (tetrapods)6. North African Ecology7. The March of the Oysters8. The Cenomanian Mass ExtinctionAppendixLiterature Cited
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University of California Press Waste Worlds
Book SynopsisUganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these struggles. In the densely inhabited social infrastructures in and around the city's waste streams, people, places, and things become disposable but conditions of disposability are also challenged and undone. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Jacob Doherty illustrates how waste makes worlds, offering the key intervention that disposability is best understood not existentially, as a condition of social exclusion, but infrastructurally, as a form of injurious social inclusion.Trade Review"By means of the book’s rich ethnographic accounts, Doherty. . . .makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the work that underlies the infrastructures that are so vital to contemporary societies." * Exertions *"An expansive rendering of urban sanitation policies and problems in Kampala. . . . would certainly work well in an undergraduate course." * American Anthropologist *"Evocative with a skilful poetic style. . . . Waste Worlds offers a way to think about waste that humanises waste workers and renders the complicated experience of waste for non-elite urban residents." * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface: “Don’t You Have Garbage in Your Country?” Introduction Disposability’s Infrastructure Part I The Authority of Garbage 1. Accumulations of Authority 2. Tear Gas and Trash Trucks 3. Destructive Creation 4. Selfies of the State Part II Away 5. Para-Sites 6. Legalizing Waste 7. Sink and Spill 8. Assembling the Waste Stream 9. Embodied Displacement Part III Racializing Disposability 10. From Natives to Locals 11. Infrastructures of Feeling 12. Developmental Respectability 13. Waste in Time 14. Clean Hearts, Dirty Hands Conclusion Surplus, Embodiment, Displacement, and Contestation Notes Bibliography Index
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Princeton University Press States and Power in Africa
Book SynopsisOriginally published: A2000. With new preface and revised chapter nine by the author.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "This ambitious and original book turns a comparative historical lens on state-building in Africa... A brave effort to rethink some outdated approaches to fundamental problems."--Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsPreface to the New Paperback Edition xi Introduction 3 PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFRICA 9 1 The Challenge of State-Building in Africa 11 PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATES IN AFRICA 33 2 Power and Space in Precolonial Africa 35 3 The Europeans and the African Problem 58 4 The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa 97 PART THREE: NATIONAL DESIGN AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 137 5 National Design and the Broadcasting of Power 139 6 Chiefs, States, and the Land 173 PART FOUR: BOUNDARIES AND POWER 199 7 The Coin of the African Realm 201 8 The Politics of Migration and Citizenship 227 PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 249 9 The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa, Revised for the New Paperback Edition 251 Index 273
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Stanford University Press Tell This in My Memory Stories of Enslavement
Book SynopsisTaking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners, Tell This in My Memory offers a new window into the study of slavery in modern Middle Eastern.Trade Review"Looking at slavery in modern Egypt from the perspective of both elite slave-owning families and slaves themselves, Tell This in My Memory offers a richly textured picture of how slavery was lived in one corner of the world. A marvelous book." * Martin Klein University of Toronto *"Troutt Powell's skills in story telling combine with her careful analyses to create persuasive portrayals of the nature of slavery in particular times and places . . . [S]he has done more than present a new perspective on the history of slavery. Troutt Powell adds a new dimension to understanding transcultural relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century." -- John O. Voll * Georgetown University *"In her evocative and well-crafted monograph, Eve M. Troutt Powell recreates the geographic, spiritual, and personal journeys of enslaved peoples . . . Her book makes a significant contribution to the study of slavery in the Middle East and the Sudan as it does to the global study of forced migrations and enslavement . . . Perhaps the strongest aspect of the book is its accessibility. It is highly readable and assignable to undergraduate students in a wide range of history classes. The author presents her arguments without much jargon and reads her memoirs with great sensitivity to historical context, literary genre, and audience." -- Dina Rizk Khoury * American Historical Review *"Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire is a study of slavery, liberation, and remembrance between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Eve M. Troutt Powell examines the mechanisms of enslavement and the experiences of emancipation through the lives and narratives of captives and their descendants, slave owners, and European missionaries . . . [B]y integrating the histories of the Atlantic and Europe with African, Egyptian, Circassian, and Ottoman history, Troutt Powell opens the door to a global approach to the history of slavery in the region. Her work encompasses sub-Saharan, Middle Eastern and North African, European, and Atlantic studies because the story of slavery cannot be properly told within the geographical limits imposed by academic fields of specialization." -- Soha El Achi * Arab Studies Journal *"This eagerly awaited book exceeds expectations. Troutt Powell asks probing questions about the lives of enslaved and freed women and men, creatively providing answers through perceptive readings of chronicles, memoirs, photographs, and other sources. She skillfully narrates the stories of slaves, restoring dignity and meaning to their lives while simultaneously adding texture to our understanding of the experiences of owners. With its elegant prose and poignant tales, Tell This in My Memory is a literary masterpiece." -- Beth Baron * CUNY Graduate Center, author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics *"A beautifully written account of the experience of Sudanese enslavement in the Central Islamic Lands in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing upon multiple languages and variegated sources, Troutt Powell weaves a moving and evocative tapestry, employing multiple perspectives of the enslaved as well as slaveholders. Her analysis of the conditions of enslavement as well as the challenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant. This is an extraordinary contribution to the intertwined studies of slavery, the Muslim world, and Africa's complex diaspora." -- Michael Gomez * New York University *"[S]cholars dealing with the legacy of slavery in the Islamic world will find this book a much-needed and welcome addition to this genre . . . Overall, the book masterfully unpacks unarticulated yet historical memories of previous generations of southern Sudanese and Darfuris who had been enslaved in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire across the Mediterranean." -- Ismael M. Montana * The Historian *"She looks at not only the lives of slaves but also the lives of others whom were influenced by slaves . . . By taking into consideration of all these accounts, it seems Powell has examined the 'slavery' issue not only as a historical fact but also as a living memory of the later generations of people whom owned slaves or were owned as slaves." -- Hatice Uğur * Osmanli Araştirmalari: The Journal of Ottoman Studies *"Powell performs an excellent service with this book by carefully examining the narratives she has chosen and showing us the choices her subjects made, the lives they were forced to lead, and the ways in which they came to accept their fate." -- Terence Walz * Middle East Journal *"Restoring the voices of long-silenced people, Troutt Powell's book leads the way in identifying and exploring some of the most important narratives of enslaved people-black and white, male and female-as they navigated the harsh conditions of slavery and claimed their freedom and dignity. Troutt Powell weaves a compelling set of stories into a unified interpretation and a grand narrative. This is an impressive work." -- Chouki El Hamel * Arizona State University *
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Facts On File Inc A Brief History of Egypt Brief History
Book SynopsisAncient Egypt was one of the longest-lasting civilizations the world has ever known. This book explores Egypt's broad political, economic, social, and cultural developments, from the mighty civilization of the past to the diverse cultural and political landscape, covering almost 6,000 years of history.
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The University of Alabama Press To Do Justice The Civil Rights Ministry of
Book SynopsisTraces the life and career of an admirable and lesser-known civil rights figure who fought injustice on two continents. This account presents valuable new evidence about the civil rights movement in the United States as well as human rights and liberation issues in colonial Southern Rhodesia in the years leading up to independence and self-rule.
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Ohio University Press Apartheids Leviathan
Book SynopsisBeginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa’s economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation’s mining, manufacturing, and power generation.Trade ReviewFaeeza Ballim's timely work successfully explains the durability of [electricity utility] Eskom, offers some sense of why the backlash against Eskom (including assassination attempts) is mounting, and offers historians valuable tools for analyzing the relationship between electric power infrastructures and the state. * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *A fascinating and timely study of South Africa’s state corporations—in particular its national electricity provider Eskom—and their relationship to the (post)apartheid state. Drawing on meticulous historical research, Ballim powerfully revises existing accounts of state power in South Africa and speaks to urgent questions of energy politics and democratization in the present. -- Antina von Schnitzler, author of Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after ApartheidThe inevitable intertwining of power supply, politics and the market has been well explored. Yet in policy debates, one continues to hear calls for the separation of the three parts of the assemblage. Ballim takes up the issue in South Africa and captivatingly shows how calls for disentanglement obscure better insights. -- Richard Rottenburg, University of the WitwatersrandThe trouble of a timely book is that one is tempted to demand proposals and solutions to the current crisis. Apartheid’s Leviathan is not that book and that is perhaps one of its greatest strengths. Faeeza Ballim’s careful exposition of archival documents and valuable insights from first-hand interviews add a human character offering a useful contribution demanding us to reflect on Eskom in its broader historical context. -- Brian Kamanzi * Africa Is a Country *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Unlikely Exploitation of the Waterberg Chapter 2 The Taming of the Waterberg Chapter 3 Eskom and the Turning of the Tide Chapter 4 Contested Neoliberalism Chapter 5 Labor and Belonging in Lephalale Chapter 6 The Medupi Power Station Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Travel See
Book SynopsisIn this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Trade Review"Travel & See benefits from a retrospective gaze; Mercer’s 30-year career gives him a judicious distance on some highly charged aesthetic movements and issues.... Mercer’s volume ... does not simply collect his past writings; it forces us to see international modernism in a way that has implications for future scholarship both within and beyond the field of black diasporic art. Travel & See posits Mercer as a chronicler not only of the field of contemporary art of the Afro-modern world, but of the inextricable ties of black diasporic and modernism itself." -- Sarah Lewis * Art in America *"Travel & See is an essential addition to any art historian’s library.... With Travel & See, Mercer further establishes himself as a leading figure in the field while also modeling the type of work that still needs to be done. The volume shows how Mercer’s writing redefined contemporary art history just as much as it shows how black diaspora artists changed contemporary art." -- Uchenna Itam * Shift *"Mercer's optimistic spirit encourages the reader to dare to travel in space and time in order to see better." -- Maureen Murphy * Critique d'art *"Subtleties of thought and elegance of expression are characteristic of Mercer's writings, read avidly by those art historians who have sought insight into Black British Cultural Studies, increasingly influential over the last thirty years. Mercer's essays offer a welcome contrast to art‐historical scholarship aimed at the specialist, and also to criticism on the contemporary arts of the African and Asian diasporas." -- Amna Malik * Art History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Art's Critique of Representation 37 1. The Fragile Inheritors 39 2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia 50 Part II. Differential Proliferations 87 3. Marronage of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper 89 4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode 97 5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien 129 6. Art That Is Ethnic is Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare 147 Part III. Global Modernities 155 7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between 157 8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture 170 9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness 186 10. Documenta 11 207 Part IV. Detours and Returns 215 11. A Sociography of Diaspora 217 12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture 227 13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern 248 14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary 262 Part V. Journeying 277 15. Postcolonial Trauerspiel: Black Audio Film Collective 279 16. Archive and Dépaysement in the Art of Renée Green 294 17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life 310 18. Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque 321 Bibliography 347 Index 357
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Duke University Press Lions Share
Book SynopsisVeit Erlmann examines the role of copyright law in post-apartheid South Africa and its impact on the South African music industry, showing how copyright is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. “We Do Not Speak the Same Language” 1 1. Aspirations and Apprehensions: Toward an Anthropology in Law 16 2. The Past in the Present: Copyright, Colonialism, and “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” 62 3. Assembling Tradition, Representing Indigeneity: The Making of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 28 of 2013 109 4. Circulating Evidence: The Truth about Piracy 174 5. Which Collective? The Infrastructure of Royalties 232 Conclusion. How to Speak the Same Language, or at Least Try To 301 Appendix. Southern African Copyright: The Basics 309 Notes 315 Bibliography 345 Index 371
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Duke University Press Markets of Civilization
Book SynopsisIn Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what Davis terms “a racial regime of religion” that subjected Algerian Muslims to discriminatory political and economic structures. These experts believed that introducing a market economy would modernize society and discourage anticolonial nationalism. Planners, politicians, and economists implemented reforms that both sought to transform Algerians into modern economic subjects and drew on racial assumptions despite the formally color-blind policies of the French state. Following independence, convictions about the inherent link between religious beliefs and economic behavior continued to influence development policies. Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella embraced a specifically Algerian socialism founded on Islamic princTrade Review“Markets of Civilization makes for a fascinating addition both to the literature on Algeria and also to the broader literature on racial formations and racialization. . . . Well worth the read.” -- Marc Lynch * Marc Lynch *“Markets of Civilization is a much needed scholarly intervention into the connections between race, capital and economics, and enables us to think about racial capitalism outside of, but very much connected to, a Euro-American framework. An essential read for anyone interested in the story of capitalism as others experienced it.” -- Usman Butt * Middle East Monitor *“Davis’s intervention brings our attention to an underappreciated historiographical domain of racial capitalism’s inception, evolution and contestation (i.e., the late French empire). . . . Davis subtly adds the dimension of religion to a conversation that has been dominated by ethnic- and colour-based understandings of racial capitalism’s historical origins and contemporary realities.” -- Jacob Mundy * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Markets of Civilization makes a significant contribution to the field of Algerian history through its explication of the entanglements of racial, economic, and colonial imperatives. . . . I recommend the book to scholars and students interested in the study’s widely-ranging themes, including racial capitalism in the Middle East, the connections between economic and intellectual histories, the enduring nature of colonial, racial thinking, and how post-independence Arab regimes negotiated and remade older colonial ideas and policies." -- Sara Rahnama * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"A grounded and challenging effort to revive an older Third-Worldist scholarly tradition on Algeria. ... Davis’s Markets of Civilization is a must-read for those interested in Algerian history, colonialism, and contemporary debates on Islam and Islamophobia, as well as scholars examining the twin social theories of race and political economy." -- Mohammed Salih * SAW Reviews *Table of ContentsAcronyms ix Transliteration Note xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Settling the Colony 19 2. A New Algeria Rising 43 3. Decolonization and the Constantine Plan 69 4. Fellahs into Peasants 96 5. Communism in a White Burnous 119 6. Today's Utopia Is Tomorrow's Reality 144 Epilogue 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 227 Index 259
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Duke University Press The Briny South
Book SynopsisIn The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors’ reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions in the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean. From Dutch East India Company rule in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and portray them as inarticulately suffering. In this way, sentiment operated in favor of the powerful rather than as an oppositional weapon of the subaltern. By tracing the entwinement oTrade Review"One of the work’s great strengths is its ability to articulate how the context and sources for the Indian Ocean differ from those of the Atlantic world, especially for enslavement and indenture. Enslavement in the Indian Ocean world produced a legal archive unlike that of the Atlantic Ocean, allowing Boer to ask and answer questions about enslaved life that could not be posed in the Atlantic. This has the dual effect of bringing into relief what is unique about each while simultaneously helping to bring Atlantic world scholars into the world of the Indian Ocean." -- Jared Asser * Emotions: History, Culture, Society *"A keen sense of form enables [Boer] to plot a course through a vast array of legal and literary texts that span centuries and include court rulings, legal complaints, testimonies, and political pamphlets alongside poetry, folk songs, fiction, and memoirs. It is no small feat to weave together an archive as expansive and complex as the Indian Ocean itself, and Boer manages to do so with striking clarity and precision. ... The Briny South offers a new paradigm for scholars and readers of Indian Ocean literature, histories of enslavement, indenture, internment, inter-imperialism, or South African apartheid." -- Tyler Scott Ball * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Enslaved, Indentured, Interned 1 1. Representing Speech in Bondage in the Court Records of the Dutch Cabo de Goede Hoop, 1652–1795 17 2. Silencing the Enslaved: The Aesthetics of Abolitionism in the British Cape Colony, 1795–1834 48 3. “Grievances More Sentimental than Material”: Representing Indentured Labor in Natal, 1860–1915 82 4. A Sentimental Education in Boer War Imprisonment Camps in South Asia, 1899–1902 109 5. Sentiment and the Law in Early South African Indian Writing, 1893–1960 132 Coda. No Human Footprints 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 205
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Duke University Press Riotous Deathscapes
Book SynopsisIn Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have enabled the community’s resilience and survival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral and living characters, following the tenor of village life, to offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death. Canham shows that Mpondo theory is grounded in and develops in relation to the natural world, where the river and hill are key sites of being and resistance. Central too, is the interface between ancestors and the living, in which life and death become a continuity and a boundlessness that white supremacy and neoliberalism cannot interdict. By charting a course of black life in Mpondoland, CaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Mpondo Orientations 1 1. Watchful Ocean, Observant Mountain 37 2. Fortifying Rivers 68 3. Riotous Spirits—Ukukhuphuka Izizwe 104 4. Levitating Graves and Ancestral Frequencies 139 5. Rioting Hills and Occult Insurrections 173 Fitful Dreamscapes: An Afterword 208 Notes 213 References 231 Index 259
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Duke University Press Envisioning African Intersex
Book SynopsisAmanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim hermaphroditism and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.Trade Review"Envisioning African Intersex is a compelling and provocative analysis of how medical and scientific authorities have imagined intersex (atypical sex development) in Africa and, just as important, how contemporary South African intersex activists have resisted these racist interpretations." -- Elizabeth Reis * Journal of Medical Humanities *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries: Intersex Images and Citational Chains 1 Part I. Uncovering: Colonial and Apartheid Legacies 1. Colonial Observations and Fallacies: “Hermaphroditism” in Histories of South Africa 23 2. “Intersex in Four South African Racial Groups in Durban”: Visualizing Scientific Racism and Gendered Medicine 49 Part II. Recovering: Decolonial Intersex Interventions 3. Defying Medical Violence and Social Death: Sally Gross and the Inception of South African Intersex Activism 73 4. #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya’s Refusals and the Decolonization of Gender Testing 102 5. Toward an “African Intersex Reference of Intelligence”: Directions in Intersex Organizing 132 Epilogue. Reframing Visions of South African Intersex 156 Acknowledgments 161 Appendix One: Compilation of Works by and Featuring Sally Gross 165 Appendix Two: Cited Twitter Posts Referencing Caster Semenya 167 Appendix Three: African Intersex Movement Priorities (2017, 2019, 2020) 169 Notes 171 References 207 Index 231
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Cornell University Press War and Genocide in South Sudan
Book SynopsisUsing more than a decade''s worth of fieldwork in South Sudan, Clémence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth accumulation, state formation, and a form of racismextreme ethnic group entitlementthat has the potential to result in genocide. War and Genocide in South Sudan traces the rise of a predatory state during civil war in southern Sudan and its transformation into a violent Dinka ethnocracy after the region''s formal independence. That new state, Pinaud argues, waged genocide against non-Dinka civilians in 2013-2017. During a civil war that wrecked the region between 1983 and 2005, the predominantly Dinka Sudan People''s Liberation Army (SPLA) practiced ethnically exclusive and predatory wealth accumulation. Its actions fostered extreme group entitlement and profoundly shaped the rebel state. Ethnic group entitlement eventually grew into an ideology of ethnic supremacy. After that war ended, the semi-autonomous state tuTrade ReviewClemence Pinaud's book, War and Genocide in South Sudan, is one of the few books on South Sudan that attaches importance to oral tradition as a means for reconstructing unwritten history. War and Genocide in South Sudan adds to the historiography on a range of topics relative to the Sudan: war, conflict, the politics of liberation, the economy, and genocide. Future scholars who wish to write about the Second and Third Civil Wars will start from where Pinaud's research stops. * H-Diplo *A deeply researched, arresting, and often brutal account of civil war in South Sudan, the violent events of which Pinaud argues constitute genocide. Based on 550 interviews across a range of locations, it is the detailed, first-person accounts of people's experiences of the war that brings the intimate experience of violence into sharp, and often brutal, relief. Required reading for the many people who care about South Sudan and its future. * Global Responsibility to Protect *Pinaud's approach is clear-eyed and systematic. She walks a careful line, avoiding oversimplifications that would characterize the war as an 'ethnic' conflict while demonstrating the central role that instrumentalized ethnicity played in fomenting and prosecuting events and is nuanced in her analysis of the various factions. Pinaud's book will be essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the roots of the present South Sudanese conflict; it also makes a significant contribution to sociological understanding of the political formation of mass atrocity. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsFrom Predation to Genocide 1. From the Turkiyya to the Second Civil War: 1820–1983 2. The SPLA and the Making of an Ethnic Dinka Army: 1983–2005 3. The War Economy and State-Making in SPLA Areas: 1983–2005 4. SPLA Violence, Group-Making, and Expansion: 1983–2005 5. Nationalism, Predation, and Ethnic Ranking: 2005–13 6. The Making of a Violent Ethnocracy: 2005–13 7. Civil War and the First Genocidal Phase: December 2013 8. The Second Phase of the Genocide in Unity State: 2014–15 9. The Third Phase of the Genocide in Equatoria: 2015–17 Ethnic Supremacy and Genocidal Conquest
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University Press of Mississippi The Case against Afrocentrism
Book SynopsisPostcolonial discourses on African Diaspora history and relations have traditionally focused intensely on highlighting the common experiences and links between black Africans and African Americans. This is especially true of Afrocentric scholars and supporters who use Africa to construct and validate a monolithic, racial, and culturally essentialist worldview. Publications by Afrocentric scholars such as Molefi Asante, Marimba Ani, Maulana Karenga, and the late John Henrik Clarke have emphasized the centrality of Africa to the construction of Afrocentric essentialism. In the last fifteen years, however, countervailing critical scholarship has challenged essentialist interpretations of Diaspora history. Critics such as Stephen Howe, Yaacov Shavit, and Clarence Walker have questioned and refuted the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of Afrocentric essentialist ideology. Tunde Adeleke deconstructs Afrocentric essentialism by illuminating and interrogating the problematic situation of Africa as the foundation of a racialized worldwide African Diaspora. He attempts to fill an intellectual gap by analyzing the contradictions in Afrocentric representations of the continent. These include multiple, conflicting, and ambivalent portraits of Africa; the use of the continent as a global, unifying identity for all blacks; the de-emphasizing and nullification of New World acculturation; and the ahistoristic construction of a monolithic African Diaspora worldwide.
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Wits University Press Cape Radicals: Intellectual and political thought
Book SynopsisIn 1937, a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, embarked on a remarkable public education and cultural project. They called it the New Era Fellowship (NEF). In different forums – public debates, lectures, study circles and cultural events – the seeds of radical thinking were planted, nurtured and brought to full flower. The group sought to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and ‘race’ – on which they were based. In the critical thinking and analytical discipline they brought to bear to dismantle these constructs, they were 40 years ahead of their time. Their leaders were extraordinary men and women who, in bringing their individual lived experiences into the arena, were able to connect with issues at a deep, personal level. Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping people of colour of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid in all its ruthless effectiveness. In subsequent narratives of liberation their significance has been overlooked, even disparaged, and has never been fully understood and acknowledged. By shining a contemporary light on the NEF and locating its contribution in current sociological and political discourse, Crain Soudien shows how its members were at the forefront of redefining the debate about social difference in a racially divided society.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 A Battle of Ideas Chapter 2 Planters of the Seed Chapter 3 ‘Anything Under the Sun’ – The Formation of the NEF Chapter 4 Honest, Sincere and Fearless – 1937-1940 Chapter 5 The Road to Emancipation – 1940-1953 Chapter 6 A Cauldron of Conflict Chapter 7 Legacy Notes List of Illustrations Bibliography Index
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Wits University Press In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East
Book SynopsisIn November 1949, Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu, the South African politician, Methodist lay preacher and retired professor of African languages and Latin at Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. The conference brought together delegates from over thirty countries to reflect on how Mahatma Gandhi's life and teachings could inform pacifist work in the post-World War II era. Jabavu wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey up the east coast of Africa and to different parts of India which was first published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. His narrative contains wide-ranging reflections on the fauna and flora of the changing landscape, on intriguing social interactions during his travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for oppressed South Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity. He incorporates accounts of chance meetings with important figures of post-independence India and of the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa, as well as with members of the American civil rights movement. His commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers of nationalism when coupled with militarism and racism, enriches the existing archive of intellectual and political exchange between Africa and India from a black South African perspective. This new edition includes Jabavu's travelogue in the original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late anthropologist Cecil Wele Manona. Tina Steiner's introductory chapter examines the networks of international solidarity and friendship that Jabavu helped to strengthen in the course of his travels. A chapter by Mhlobo W. Jadezweni, whose updating of the original isiXhosa orthography has made Jabavu's text accessible to new generations of readers, considers the richness of Jabavu's isiXhosa style as a contribution to the archive of great African-language literature. Catherine Higgs provides biographical sketches of D.D.T. Jabavu and Cecil Wele Manona which situate this travelogue within the broader context of their lives. Evan M. Mwangi's Afterword is a reflection on the historical and political significance of making African-language texts available to readers across Africa.Trade ReviewA remarkable travelogue by one of South Africa’s greatest intellectuals, DDT Jabavu, this book opens new vistas on Indian Ocean histories. Available for the first time in isiXhosa and English, this historical gem enriches our sense of the scope and scale of South African letters. —Isabel Hofmeyr, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University and Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg A significant figure in Cape African politics at that time, and a renowned academic from Fort Hare University, Jabavu’s expressive account of this trip weaves together a myriad of encounters with people he already knew, and those he would meet on his journey from the Eastern Cape to India, via the East African coast. One can only marvel at how the editors have re-enlivened Jabavu’s account of his epic 1949 journey – a rousing read! — Luvuyo Wotshela, Professor and Head of the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre, University of Fort HareTable of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Networks of Solidarity: D.D.T. Jabavu’s Voyage to India – Tina Steiner Revisiting D.D.T. Jabavu, 1885–1959 – Catherine Higgs Notes on the Original and the Translation – Mhlobo W. JadezweniIn Praise of Cecil Wele Manona, 1937–2013 – Catherine Higgs E-Indiya nase East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu In India and East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu, translated by Cecil Wele Manona, edited by Tina Steiner and Mhlobo W. Jadezweni Afterword: Jabavu and African Translations for the Future – Evan M. Mwangi References Editors’ biographies Index
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James Currey The Sudan Handbook
Book SynopsisA compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient reference work. The Sudan Handbook, based on the Rift Valley Institute's successful Sudan Field Course, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to Sudan, vividly written and edited by leading Sudanese and international specialists. The handbook offers a concise introduction to all aspects of the country, rooted in a broad historical account of the development of the Sudanese state. It consists of eighteen self-contained, cross-referenced chapters, covering essential topics in the geography, history, sociology, culture and politics of the country, written by outstanding Sudanese scholars and recognized international experts. It includes numerous purpose-drawn maps and diagrams,glossaries of key terms, capsule biographies of key figures, a chronology and a bibliography. John Ryle, Rift Valley Institute and Division of Social Sciences, Bard College, USA; Justin Willis, Department of History, Durham University, UK and former Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa; Suliman Baldo, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, International Crisis Group; Jok Madut Jok, Department of History, LoyolaMarymount University, USA. Published in association with the Rift Valley InstituteTrade ReviewDiplomats, aid workers and development workers heading for a tour of duty , in either of the Sudans, or both, should certainly read this collection of well written and informative essays. * LAWFARE *Very useful. [...] As a vehicle to introduce one to all things Sudanese, it succeeds very well and is to be highly recommended. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *A collection of readable, thought-provoking and intelligent essays that together provide a thorough introduction to Sudan and South Sudan. [...] It will be invaluable to anyone who does not have a deep prior knowledge. * SUDAN STUDIES *This witness to all that was bad in the past [...] and the celebration of all that is good, such as the new nation's vibrant culture and economic prospects, belongs in all African studies libraries. Essential. * CHOICE *CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Many Sudans - John Ryle and Justin Willis Land & water - Justin Willis and Omer Egemi and Philip Winter Early states on the Nile - Abdel Rahman Ali Mohammed and Derek Welsby Peoples & cultures of the two Sudans - John Ryle Religious practice & belief - Wendy James The ambitions of the State - Justin Willis From the country to the town - Munzoul A. M. Assal From slaves to oil - Laura James Sudan's fragile state, 1956-1989 - Peter Woodward Islamism & the state - Abdel Salam Sidahmed Traditional authority, local government & justice - and Musa Abdul Jalil Twentieth-century civil wars - Douglas H. Johnson The war in the west - Jerome Tubiana A short history of Sudanese popular music - Ahmad Sikainga Sudan's regional relations - Gérard Prunier The international presence in Sudan - Daniel Large The past & future of peace - Edward Thomas Epilogue: The next Sudan - Jok Madut Jok and John Ryle Appendices: Chronology - Key figures in Sudanese history, culture & politics
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James Currey Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and
Book SynopsisA single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia. This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to the general reader, but its comprehensive references and guidance to controversies and research needs will render it invaluable to specialists and students. It considers how the region's literate communities arose and flourished during the last millennium BC, giving rise to the Aksumite civilisation whose achievements and intercontinental significance are increasingly recognised, and which formed an integral but often neglected component of the Christian world in Late Antiquity. Aksum is now seen as the ancestor of the region'smedieval Christian kingdom whose churches and associated art continue to attract many visitors to Ethiopia. David W. Phillipson is Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology and former Director of the University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge. In 2014 he was made an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University PressTrade ReviewA useful working tool for scholars, a complete and updated textbook for students and a readable and informative account for those who wish to be introduced to the past of these regions. * AETHIOPICA *This authoritative and challenging book is essential for experts of Ethiopian and Eritrean archaeology and history, but it is also an accessible and engaging read for a wider audience. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *[A] compelling read [and] a meticulous survey that engages with several branches of archaeology and history as well as art history, epigraphy, and linguistics. ... This authoritative and challenging book is essential for experts of Ethiopian and Eritrean archaeology and history, but it is also an accessible and engaging read for a wider audience beyond its geographical and temporal scope. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Foundations of an African Civilisation is an unparalleled contribution to the archaeological literature about Aksum, which will aid both the established researcher and the recently initiated student of Aksumite studies alike. Its comprehensive, yet largely accessible treatment of a range of archaeological, epigraphic, and historical data, excellent organisation and informative illustrations are a tribute and a testimony to David Phillipson's long-running dedication to exploring this most intriguing ancient African civilisation. * AZANIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Part I Before Aksum The northern Horn 3000 years ago The first millennium BC - Part II The Kingdom of Aksum Aksumite civilisation: an introductory summary Aksumite languages & literacy Some written sources relating to Aksumite civilisation The emergence & expansion of the Aksumite state Aksumite kingship & politics Aksumite religion Cultivation & herding, food & drink Urbanism, architecture & non-funerary monuments Aksumite burials Aksumite technology & material culture Aksumite coinage Foreign contacts of the Aksumite state Decline & transformation of the Aksumite state - Part III After Aksum The Zagwe Dynasty - Part IV Epilogue The future of the past in the northern Horn
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Archaeopress Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the
Book SynopsisThe East African coast and the Western Indian Ocean are regions of global historical significance. This volume contains papers first presented at the conference, Early Maritime Cultures of the East African Coast, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 23-24, 2015. Rather than limiting publication to the proceedings of the conference, additional contributions were solicited to expand the scope of the research presented and to place East Africa in its broader geographic and cultural contexts. The resulting volume focuses broadly on East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean and unites the papers under the general themes of movement and connection. These papers represent a multi-disciplinary effort to examine East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. Multiple lines of evidence drawn from linguistics, archaeology, history, art history, and ethnography come together in novel ways to highlight different aspects of the region’s past and offer innovative avenues for future research. The papers cover a diverse array of topics, including but not limited to: subsistence, watercraft traditions, trade and exchange (especially concerning the Silk Routes), migration, food ways, and familial relationships. This volume is unique in that it includes some speculative research as well, intended to present novel methods to deal with data-poor topics and to start important conversations about understudied topics. The goal of this volume is to showcase aspects of the complex cultures and histories of this vast region and to emphasize its importance to world history. Ideally, it will generate scholarly and popular interest in the histories and cultures of the region and bring to the fore Africa’s and the Western Indian Ocean’s important (yet often overlooked) role in world historical narratives. It may also serve as a more advanced introduction to East Africa’s and the Western Indian Ocean’s history of interaction with other regions of the Old World and as a survey of methods used to understand the region’s past.Trade Review'Overall the book represents a useful resource for those interested in understanding the role of East Africa and the Red Sea in global networks, acknowledges the contribution of hinterland communities in the success of these exchanges, and documents how these networks can be examined from different perspectives.' -- Annalisa C. Christie * Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Volume 15 *'Ultimately, the editor should be commended for pulling together a diverse and compelling collection of chapters. So, too, should Archaeopress be commended for the Access Archaeology initiative, which enables such eclectic volumes to find a publisher and a readership.' -- Matthew Pawlowicz * African Archaeological Review *Table of ContentsPrehistoric Settlements on the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea – by Amanuel Beyin and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Stratifying the Peopling of Madagascar – by Roger Blench; From the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and Beyond – by Sing C. Chew; A Tradition of Large Logboats on the Save River, South-Eastern Zimbabwe? – by Rosanne Hawarden; Ancient Connections between China and East Africa – by Chapurukha Kusimba; On the Early Maritime Silk Road between China and India – by Wensuo Liu and Yanrong Wang; Australia’s Kilwa Coins Conundrum – by Ian S. McIntosh; Asian Military and Mercantile Movements in East Africa during the Nineteenth Century, a Few Notes – by Beatrice Nicolini; Zilo and Zahula – by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer; Traditional Indian Ocean Maritime Trade and Social Organization – by Martin Ottenheimer; Shellfish Exploitation at Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar (c. 11kya – 20th cen. CE): A Preliminary Study – by Akshay Sarathi; Artistic Dynamics across the Seas – by Vera-Simone Schulz; Long-Distance Arab Sailing in the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese – by Marina Tolmacheva
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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Divine Consumption: Sacrifice, Alliance Building,
Book SynopsisKirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, development of economic specializations, intensification in interregional commercial networks, and the effects of the Black Death pandemic. The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa. Building from a new detailed zooarchaeological analysis and refinements in stratigraphic precision, this book argues that repeated ritual activity was a significant factor in the accumulation of stratified archaeological deposits. The book details consistencies in form and content of discrete loci containing animal bones, food remains, and broken and unbroken objects and suggests that these are the remnants of sequential ancestor shrines created when domestic spaces were converted to tombs or dedicated mortuary monuments were constructed. Continuities and transformations in ancestral rituals at Kirikongo inform on earlier West African ritual practices from the second millennium BC as well as political and social transformations at the site. More broadly, this case study provides new insights on anthropogenic mound (tell) formation processes, social zooarchaeology, material culture theory, historical ontology, and the analysis of ritual and religion in the archaeological record. Winner of the 2023 SAfA Book Prize for "a book that has been successful in taking African archaeology to a world audience" Table of ContentsChapter 1. Archaeology and Sacrifice in Central West Africa Chapter 2. Kirikongo in Historical and Social Context Chapter 3. Archaeology of Animals in West Africa Chapter 4. The Animals of Kirikongo Chapter 5. Depositional Contexts and Relational Associations Chapter 6. Divine Consumption: Feasts, Sacrifice, and Societal Transformation Chapter 7. Emplacing Ancestors: Enabling Co-Presence through Material Sacrifice and Rituals of Attachment/Detachment Chapter 8. Sacrificing Animals, Objects, and Houses: Toward an Archaeology of Attachment and Detachment
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sankore
Book SynopsisA dynamic, interactive, mid-weight eurogame for one to four players, following the rise in fortunes of the prestigious University of Sankoré in 14th-century Timbuktu.Tasked by the emperor, Mansa Musa, with spreading knowledge throughout West Africa, players must each manage a prestigious school within the Sankoré Madrasa as this great university is raised around them.By enrolling and graduating your pupils, teaching classes, adding to your curriculum, and filling the great library with books, you will advance knowledge in four main disciplines: theology, law, mathematics, and astronomy. Once construction of the university is complete, the value that the empire places on each discipline will dramatically affect how you score the knowledge you have passed on.In a dedicated solo mode, you will be competing against a distinguished scholar, a passionate, and ambitious academic controlled by an elegant automated system. They may not be as nimble as you, but
£60.00
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Season of Rains: Africa in the World
Book SynopsisMost of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often, it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more complicated than this binary opposition suggests. The continent has over the last century experienced the fastest population growth in the entire history of our planet. This brings pressures environmental and human, but it also changes the logic of Africa's economics. It suggests reasons for hope. Thanks to mobile phones, African retail markets are now becoming integrated; in South Africa, Nigeria and elsewhere, banking is penetrating society; foreign direct investment is higher than ever before. And Africa has 80 per cent of the world's empty agricultural land, which foreigners covet. Yet there is no reason to believe that Africa is heading for political stability. Its so-called 'failed states' are actually here to stay. After two centuries when Europeans and Americans thought of Africa as a continent struggling to catch up, it has arrived. It has developed, but in ways no one foresaw. Season of Rains explains how one billion Africans are changing their continent and changing the world. Stephen Ellis dissects how the postcolonial legacy has been overcome, how Africans are seizing the commercial and political initiative, and why this matters. Africans are reorienting-literally-as they connect to the East. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese, seeking minerals, oil and more, have settled in Africa; conversely the Chinese city of Guangzhou is home to as many as 100,000 Africans. In a series of short, pungently written chapters, Ellis surveys the continent today, offering the reader an indispensable guide to how money, power, religion and indigenous development will shape Africa's coming generations.Trade Review'The timing of [Season of Rains], named after a Cameroonian poem about forecasting the harvest at the first rains, is impeccable. Its publication follows a rash of research celebrating the prospects of an African economic renaissance in years to come, while a combination of global and local circumstances has pushed the continent back up the agenda for the global investment community. - Yet this growing literature on what some like to term a new scramble for Africa, referring back to the colonial carve-up that took place in the 19th century, is often one-dimensional. That is not an accusation that can be levelled at Ellis, who in a succinct 170 pages captures the broad spectrum of political, economic and social foundations that make Africa what it is today.' * Financial Times *'Nuanced and challenging - Ellis' book will not please readers looking for a simple takeaway of straightforward policy recommendations, but his in-depth knowledge makes it essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Africa's evolution.' * Foreign Affairs *'This book is a lucid and brief analysis of Africa in the world. It is a subversive masterpiece, undermining stereotypes of and about Africans. Everyone interested in Africa should read it to give their assumptions an invigorating cold shower and to modify their own policies.' - Sir Edward Clay, former British High Commissioner to Kenya, for the Royal African Society 'Season of Rains brilliantly succeeds in its goal of providing a succinct introduction to a continent which is all too often conceived by external observers in stereotypes inherited from the post-colonial period, or indeed much further back in the history of "the dark continent".' * International Affairs *'[Seasons of Rain] investigate[s] and enrich[es] the intellectual, political and cultural approaches to the African continent, giving substance and structures and offering body to policy-making... in vibrant style, Ellis brings the individual and the global, the personal and the structural, the pre-colonial and the aftermath of the "true postcolonial age" together.' * The Round Table *'One of the most insightful and thought-provoking analyses of Africa of the last decade. Stephen Ellis mercilessly exposes the outdated preconceptions that mould outsiders' interactions with the continent and the yawning gap between what statesmen, diplomats and aid officials would like the continent to be and what it really is. His conclusion is refreshingly upbeat.' * Michela Wrong, author of It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower *'An outstanding, original and provocative work. - The breadth of Season of Rains is extremely impressive. - its greatest strength is the way it manages to convey a sense of both continuity and change. - a considerable achievement'. * Dr Daniel Branch, University of Warwick *
£12.34
St Martin's Press Cobalt Red
Book Synopsis The revelatory Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Nonfiction, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operationand the moral implications that affect us all.Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gat
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