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Book SynopsisThe Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako’s oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru’s life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  Stephen P.D. Bulman A Note on the Language and Transcription of the Bamana Text  Valentin F. Vydrine Glossary of Manding Words Transcriptions of the Major Musical Themes That Abdulaye Sako Played on the ngɔ̀ni to Accompany His Performance of the Epic of Sumanguru  Sam Dickey Summary of Contents of the Epic of Sumanguru Banama Text and English Translation of the Epic of Sumanguru by Abdulaye Sako  Valentin F. Vydrine, Amadou Togo and Stephen P.D. Bulman Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLandscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past offers a comprehensive assessment of new directions in the historiography of West Africa. With twenty-four chapters by leading researchers in the study of West African history and cultures, the volume examines the main trends in multiple fields including the critical interpretation of Arabic sources; new archaeological surveys of trans-Saharan trade; the discovery of sources in Latin America relating to pan-Atlantic histories; and the continuing analysis of oral histories. The volume is dedicated to Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, whose work inspired the intellectual reorientations discussed in its chapters and stands as the clearest formulation of the book’s central focus on the relationship between political conjunctures and the production of sources. Contributors are: Benjamin Acloque, Karin Barber, Seydou Camara, Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Nikolas Gestrich, Toby Green, Bruce Hall, Jan Jansen, Shamil Jeppie, Daouda Keita, Murray Last, Robin Law, Camille Lefebvre, Paul Lovejoy, Ghislaine Lydon, Carlos Magnavita, Sonja Magnavita, Kevin MacDonald, Thomas McCaskie, Ann McDougall, Daniela Moreau, Mauro Nobili, Insa Nolte, Abel-Wedoud Ould-Cheikh, Benedetta Rossi, Charles Stewart.Trade Review[...] The editors have done a very good job of bringing together a wide range of scholars to engage with Moraes Farias’ ideas and give them new life. This book is a useful and welcome contribution that overcomes traditional disciplinary divides and makes for a very fitting tribute to this great scholar and his work.[...] Sirio Canós-Donnay, Institute of Heritage Sciencies, Spanish National Research Council, in African Archaeology Review (2020) 37:315–316Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Archaeology and Material Landscapes 1 All that Glitters is not Gold: Facing the Myths of Ancient Trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa  Sonja Magnavita and Carlos Magnavita 2 African Archaeology and the ‘Chalk Line Effect’: A Consideration of Māli City and Siğilmāsa  François-Xavier Fauvelle 3 The ‘Pays Dô’ and the Origins of the Empire of Mali  Kevin C. MacDonald, Nikolas Gestrich, Seydou Camara, Daouda Keita Part 2: Imagined Landscapes and Moral Topographies 4 Imitation and Creativity in the Establishment of Islam in Oyo  Insa Nolte 5 Fante ‘Origins’: The Problematic Evidence of ‘Tradition’  Robin Law 6 The Unknowns of the Modern Era in the Greater Western Sahara: Reassessing the Territorial Location of the Wlād Dlaym (15th–17th Centuries)  Benjamin Acloque 7 The Almoravids and Ašʿarism: Regarding the Work of al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī  Abdel Wedoud Ould-Cheikh Part 3: Contextualising Writing and Written Sources 8 Inscribing the Now and the Hereafter: First Writings in Early African History  Ghislaine Lydon 9 New Reinventions of the Sahel: Reflections on the Taʾrīḫ Genre in the Timbuktu Historiographical Production, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries  Mauro Nobili 10 Calibrating the Scholarship of Timbuktu  Charles C. Stewart 11 Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa  Bruce S. Hall 12 Two Examples of Sahelian Book Collectors Over Two Centuries  Shamil Jeppie Part 4: Contextualising Orature and Traditionalists 13 The Time-Tested Traditionist: Intellectual Trajectory and Mediation from the Early Empires to the Present day  Mamadou Diawara 14 The Next Generation: Young Griots’ Quest for Authority  Jan Jansen 15 In Praise of History; History as Praise  Karin Barber 16 From Essentialism to Pluralisms: New Directions in Precolonial West African History from the Oral History Archive at Fajara, the Gambia  Toby Green 17 Dreamworlds: Cultural Narrative in Asante Visionary Experience  Thomas C. McCaskie Part 5: Projects, Texts, and Representations 18 The Life of a Text: Carsten Niebuhr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aġa’s Das innere von Afrika  Camille Lefebvre 19 The Kano Chronicle Revisited  Paul E. Lovejoy 20 Slavery or Death in Sokoto and Borno: Tactics, Legalities and Sources  Murray Last 21 A Story of Exile, a Story in Exile: Louis Hunkanrin, Mauritania and ‘Un Forfait Colonial’ (Revisited)  E. Ann McDougall 22 Edmond Fortier (1862–1928): Photographer, Documentarian and Creator of Stereotypes in West Africa  Daniela Moreau Afterword: Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias’ Publications and Interview  Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias Interpreting Sources of the African Past: An Interview with Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias by  Benedetta Rossi

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Book SynopsisThe first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty’s interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks. Contributors: Lotfi Abdeljaouad, Glaire D. Anderson, Lucia Arcifa, Fabiola Ardizzone, Alessandra Bagnera, Jonathan M. Bloom, Lorenzo Bondioli, Chloé Capel, Patrice Cressier, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Abdelaziz Daoulatli, Claire Déléry, Ahmed El Bahi, Kaoutar Elbaljan, Ahmed Ettahiri, Abdelhamid Fenina, Elizabeth Fentress, Abdallah Fili, Mohamed Ghodhbane, Caroline Goodson, Soundes Gragueb Chatti, Khadija Hamdi, Renata Holod, Jeremy Johns, Tarek Kahlaoui, Hugh Kennedy, Sihem Lamine, Faouzi Mahfoudh, David Mattingly, Irene Montilla, Annliese Nef, Elena Pezzini, Nadège Picotin, Cheryl Porter, Dwight Reynolds, Viva Sacco, Elena Salinas, Martin Sterry.Trade Review"This collection, as a statement on the state of the field as well as what remains to be discovered, will be a vital resource and a first stop for anyone undertaking future study of the third/ninth and fourth/tenth-century regions of the western Mediterranean and northern Africa." - Sarah Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico, in: Al-Masāq 30/3 (2018) "As an elegant (collective) status quaestionis, on a much-neglected field, and a stimulus to further work, it is hard to imagine a more welcome book." - Andrew Merills, University of Leicester, in: Medieval Archaeology 62/2 (2018) "The Aghlabids and their Neighbors is a long overdue contribution to the study of Islam and North African history. The genuinely interdisciplinary approach offers numerous possibilities for further research, not least because of the relatively small number of primary texts for this region, and the difficulty of accessing many of the manuscripts that do exist. The contributors must be praised for their skill in presenting complicated and specialized material in a manner that is both accessible and relevant to the non-initiate of their field. So too should the editors be commended for the volume's internal consistency (no small feat in a collection of this size and range) and its coherent and helpful structure." - Antonia Bosanquet, Hamburg University, in: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 96/1 (2019) "The weighty edited volume of 29 contributors, many drawn from an international workshop held in 2014, is an extremely welcome addition to the rather sparse array of scholarship on the history, art, architecture and material culture of early Islamic North Africa. Compiled and edited by Mariam Rosser-Owen, Corisande Fenwick and Glaire Anderson, a trio of scholars, known for their multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and often revisionist endeavours in the field, it has a refreshing unapologetic Maghribi perspective which encourages the reader to see North Africans as agents in the production of their own early Islamic material culture, rather than as somewhat passive imitators of what Muslims in the Islamic East or al-Andalus were doing better." - Amira K. Bennison, University of Cambridge in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Aghlabid Timeline List of Aghlabid Rulers Maps 1 The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors: An Introduction  Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen Part 1: State-building 2 The Origins of the Aghlabids  Hugh Kennedy 3 Comment les Aghlabides ont-ils gouverné l’Ifriqiya ?  Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi 4 Reinterpreting the Aghlabids’ Sicilian Policy (827–910)  Annliese Nef 5 Topographies of Power in Aghlabid-Era Kairouan  Caroline Goodson 6 L’atelier monétaire d’al-ʿAbbassiyya: du « vieux château » (al-Qasr al-Qadim) à la ville princière aghlabide  Abdelhamid Fenina 7 Le changement du type monétaire des dinars aghlabides sous le règne de Ziyadat Allah III : évolution ou révolution artistique?  Mohamed Ghodhbane 8 Ziryab in the Aghlabid Court  Dwight Reynolds Part 2: Monuments: The Physical Construction of Power 9 La Grande Mosquée de Kairouan : textes et contexte archéologique  Faouzi Mahfoudh 10 The Marble Panels in the Mihrab of the Great Mosque of Kairouan  Jonathan M. Bloom 11 Fragments d’histoire du minbar de Kairouan  Nadège Picotin and Claire Déléry 12 Les carreaux verts et jaunes « cachés » du mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan et analogie avec une sélection d’objets kairouanais  Khadija Hamdi 13 La Grande Mosquée Zitouna : un authentique monument aghlabide (milieu du IXe siècle)  Abdelaziz Daoulatli 14 The Zaytuna: The Mosque of a Rebellious City  Sihem Lamine 15 Le coufique des inscriptions monumentales et funéraires aghlabides  Lotfi Abdeljaouad 16 Les ribāṭs aghlabides : un problème d’identification  Ahmed El Bahi Part 3: Ceramics: Morphology and Mobility 17 La céramique aghlabide de Raqqada et les productions de l’Orient islamique : parenté et filiation  Soundes Gragueb Chatti 18 Aghlabid Palermo: Written Sources and Archaeological Evidence  Fabiola Ardizzone †, Elena Pezzini, and Viva Sacco 19 Palermo in the Ninth and Early Tenth Century: Ceramics as Archaeological Markers of Cultural Dynamics  Lucia Arcifa and Alessandra Bagnera 20 La céramique des niveaux idrisside et zénète de la Mosquée al-Qarawiyyin de Fès (IXe-Xe siècles)  Kaoutar El Baljani, Ahmed S. Ettahiri, and Abdallah Fili 21 Material Culture Interactions between al-Andalus and the Aghlabids  Elena Salinas and Irene Montilla Part 4: Neighbors: North Africa and the Central Mediterranean in the Ninth Century 22 Jerba of the Ninth Century: Under Aghlabid Control?  Renata Holod and Tarek Kahlaoui 23 Islamic Bari between the Aghlabids and the Two Empires  Lorenzo Bondioli 24 Nakur: un émirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des Aghlabides  Patrice Cressier 25 Idris I and the Berbers  Elizabeth Fentress 26 Sijilmassa in the Footsteps of the Aghlabids: The Hypothesis of a Ninth-Century New Royal City in the Tafilalt Plain (Morocco)  Chloé Capel 27 Zuwila and Fazzan in the Seventh to Tenth Centuries: The Emergence of a New Trading Center  David Mattingly and Martin Sterry Part 5: Legacy 28 The Materiality of the Blue Quran: A Physical and Technological Study  Cheryl Porter 29 The Palermo Quran (AH 372/982–3 CE) and its Historical Context  Jeremy Johns Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.Trade Review'Much has changed since my first reading of the Yearbook: the cooperating institutes, the writers, some of the editors. What remains the same is the quality of the articles, the depth of the analysis, the wealth of the factual information and the painstaking effort of the Yearbooks’ contributors to present life in Africa in all its diversity and perplexity'. Sotirios S. Livas in Journal of Oriental and African Studies vol. 27 2018, pp. 434-435Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Factual Overview List of Authors Part 1 Sub-Saharan Africa  Jon Abbink, Sebastian Elischer, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber Part 2 African-European Relations  Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer Part 3 West Africa  Sebastian Elischer Benin  Alexander Stroh Burkina Faso  Daniel Eizenga Cabo Verde  Gerhard Seibert Côte d’Ivoire  Alfred Babo The Gambia  Alice Bellagamba Ghana  Jennifer C. Boylan Guinea  Anita Schroven Guinea-Bissau  Christoph Kohl Liberia  Lansana Gberie Mali  Bruce Whitehouse Mauritania  Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson Niger  Klaas van Walraven Nigeria  Heinrich Bergstresser Senegal  Mamadou Bodian Sierra Leone  Krijn Peters Togo  Dirk Kohnert Part 4 Central Africa  Andreas Mehler Cameroon  Fanny Pigeaud Central African Republic  Andreas Mehler Chad  Ketil Fred Hansen Congo  Brett L. Carter Democratic Republic of the Congo  Claudia Simons Equatorial Guinea  Joseph N. Mangarella Gabon  Douglas Yates São Tomé and Príncipe  Gerhard Seibert Part 5 Eastern Africa  Jon Abbink Burundi  Stef Vandeginste Comoros  Simon Massey Djibouti  Nicole Hirt Eritrea  Nicole Hirt Ethiopia  Jon Abbink Kenya  Gabrielle Lynch Rwanda  Yolande Bouka Seychelles  Anthoni van Nieuwkerk and Jon Abbink Somalia  Jon Abbink South Sudan  Daniel Large Sudan  Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes Tanzania  Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier Uganda  Volker Weyel Part 6 Southern Africa  Henning Melber Angola  Jon Schubert Botswana  David Sebudubudu Lesotho  Roger Southall Madagascar  Richard R. Marcus Malawi  George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri Mauritius  Tor Sellström Mozambique  Joseph Hanlon Namibia  Henning Melber South Africa  Sanusha Naidu Swaziland  Marisha Ramdeen Zambia  Edalina Rodrigues Sanches Zimbabwe  Amin Y. Kamete

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Book SynopsisThe nine contributions in The Trade in Papers Marked with non-Latin Characters initiated by Anne Regourd approach global history through the paper trade in Africa and Asia, mainly in the 19th-20th C. Les neuf contributions de Le commerce des papiers à marques à caractères non-latins, dont Anne Regourd (éd.) est à l'initiative, projette de traiter d'histoire globale par le commerce du papier, principalement en Afrique et en Asie des xixe et xxe s.Trade Review"En conclusion, les points forts de l’ouvrage sont sa méthode, qui érige le sujet d’étude en source, et son sujet, les papiers traités ayant été jusqu’à présent négligés ou inconnus. Les différentes contributions sont clairement rédigées et richement illustrées, agrémentées de nombreux tableaux récapitulatifs, de cartes et de 7 index thématiques, dont des index de filigranes, contremarques et producteurs de papier. Peu de coquilles sont à déplorer. C’est un ouvrage important pour tout chercheur travaillant sur des manuscrits d’époque moderne." Elise Franssen in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 15, 2020. “This edited volume must be considered complementary to research on the trade/movement of paper and papermaking along the Silk Road.” Cagri Erdem, Keimyung University in: Acta Via Serica, Volume 4, No.2 (2022).Table of ContentsContents Foreword Remerciements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Transliteration System for Arabic Introduction: Le papier des manuscrits, une source pour l’histoire du commerce  Anne Regourd 1 ARBIB, YDLIBI and SÙRÙ (HAKURĪ): Three Arabic Script Watermarks in Northern Nigerian Manuscripts  Michaelle Biddle 2 Note on a Dated Tunisian Watermark  Michaelle Biddle 3 Recalling Alikurna: “ليكوريا” Countermarked Paper among Scribes in the Late 19th Century Ottoman Levant  Evyn Kropf 4 Manuscrits de la mer Rouge (première moitié du xxe s.) : papiers Abū Šubbāk du Yémen et d’Éthiopie  Anne Regourd 5 Papiers ‘indiens’ de manuscrits éthiopiens (fin xixe–début xxe s.)  Anne Regourd 6 Note sur les papiers à timbre sec (dry seal) en russe ou en arménien  Francis Richard 7 Un exemple rare de contremarque du viiie/xive siècle en langue et caractères arabes  Alice Shafi-Leblanc 8 Collection of Persian farmāns on Russian Paper in the National Library of Russia  Olga Yastrebova 9 Copy on demand. Abū Šubbāk in Mecca, 1303/1886  Jan Just Witkam Index multiples/Indices

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Book SynopsisAnthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society. It is the outcome of the international research program ANDROMAQUE (Anthropologie du Droit dans les Mondes Musulmans Africains et Asiatiques), funded by the French ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) between 2011 and 2014. Crossing two disciplinary perspectives, anthropology and law, the present volume contains original fieldwork data on contemporary urban and rural Sudan. Focusing on two major domains, land property and courts, several case studies demonstrate the relevance of an approach based on “legal practices” to underline, first, the plurality and hybridity of law systems and the relative role of the Islamic reference in Sudanese society, and, secondly, the reshaping of legal behaviors and norms after the breaking point of South Sudan's independence in 2011. Contributors are: Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem; Azza A. Abdel Aziz; Musa A. Abdul-Jalil; Munzoul M.A. Assal; Mohamed A. Babiker; Yazid Ben Hounet; Barbara Casciarri; Baudoin Dupret; Philippe Gout; Enrico Ille.Trade Review"The authors’ intention in writing the papers included in this volume is stated to be the exploration of property phenomena; furthermore, the intension to offer an ethnographic description of the practices linked to them. Obviously trying to balance between the impact of culture and the legal environment within which the legal praxis is applied, this is a research about the legal practices in an overwhelmingly Muslim environment - not the depiction of an ‘Islamic’ culture observed through the prism of law. This is what makes this study anthropological, as far as I am concerned. Valuable tool for students of law and (of course) anthropologists." - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 28 (2019) "Cet ouvrage, de forme très soignée, extrêmement riche et varié dans ses ethnographies de pratiques saisies sur le vif et très homogène dans ses approches, constitue non seulement un apport marquant à l’anthropologie juridique du Soudan (pays passionnant, ne serait-ce qu’au vu des événements récents), mais encore un modèle de collaboration entre anthropologues et juristes." - François Ireton, CNRS, Paris, in: Cahiers d'etudes africaines 240 (2020)

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Red Sea VII conference (Napels, 2015) entitled The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Maritime Alternative Routes in the Development of Global Economy, from Late Prehistory to Modern Times. The Red Sea and the Gulf are geographically and environmentally similar and complementary, but also competitors in their economic and cultural interactions with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The chapters of the volume are grouped in three sections, corresponding to the various historical periods. Each chapter of the book offers the reader the opportunity to travel across the regions of the Red Sea and the Gulf, from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and from prehistorical times to the contemporary era. With contributions by: Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman, Serena Autiero, Mahmoud S. Bashir, Kathryn A. Bard, Alemseged Beldados, Ioana A. Dumitru, Serena Esposito, Rodolfo Fattovich, Luigi Gallo, Michal Gawlikowski, Bruno Genito, Caterina Giostra, Sunil Gupta, Michael Harrower, Martin Hense, Linda Huli, Sarah Japp, Serena Massa, Ralph K. Pedersen, Jacke S. Phillips, Patrice Pomey, Joanna K. Rądkowska, Adriano Rossi, Mike Schnelle, Lucy Semaan, Steven E. Sidebotham, Shadia Taha, Husna Taha Elatta, Joanna Then-Obłuska and Iwona ZychTable of ContentsIntroduction Address of President of ISMEO, Prof. Adriano Rossi, to the Participants to the 7th Red Sea Conference  Adriano Rossi Dedication to Maurizio Tosi  Bruno Genito Part 1: Prehistory and Bronze Age 1 Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: Organisation of an Egyptian Bronze Age Harbour on the Red Sea Coast  Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich 2 The Rock Engravings of Boats of Sinai and the Pharaonic Maritime Expeditions  Patrice Pomey 3 Riverboats and Seagoing Ships: Lexicographical Analysis of Nautical Terms from the Sources of the Old Kingdom  Serena Esposito 4 Marsa Matruh Revisited: Modelling Interaction at a Late Bronze Age Harbour on the Egyptian Coast  Linda Hulin 5 Sorghum Paintings from the Meroitic Cemetery of Berber and Possible Implications for the Dispersal of the Plant across the Red Sea  Alemseged Beldados and Mahmoud S. Bashir 6 Mapping Ancient Production and Trade of Copper in Oman and Obsidian in Ethiopia  Ioana A. Dumitru and Michael Harrower 7 Timber-frame Architecture on Both Sides of the Red Sea from the Early First Millennium BCE: Recent Investigations of the German Archaeological Institute in South Arabia and Northern Ethiopia  Mike Schnelle 8 Bronze Age Reed Boats of Magan and Magillum Boats of Meluḫḫa in Cuneiform Literature  Danièle Michaux-Colombot 9 Imports of Pottery and Glass Vessels in First Millennium CE South Arabia: Signs of Commercial and Cultural Contacts via the Red Sea Trade Routes  Sarah Japp Part 2: Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Period 10 Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, and in the Eastern Desert: 2011–2015  Steven E. Sidebotham 11 Exotic Cults in Roman Berenike? An Investigation into Two Temples in the Harbour Temenos  Joanna K. Rądkowska and Iwona Zych 12 The Great Temple of Berenike  Martin Hense 13 Bead Trade in Roman Ports: A View from the Red Sea Port of Marsa Nakari  Joanna Then-Obłuska 14 Looking for Leuke Kome  Michał Gawlikowski 15 The Greeks and the Arabian Coast of the Red Sea  Luigi Gallo 16 Nautical Archaeology Surveys Near Jeddah, 2012–2013, and Their Connections to the Study of Red Sea Commerce  Ralph K. Pedersen 17 The Christianisation of Adulis in Light of the Material Evidence  Serena Massa and Caterina Giostra 18 The Western Indian Ocean Interaction Sphere: Significance of the Red Sea and the Arabian/Persian Gulf Routes from the Mediterranean to India (First Century BCE–Third Century CE)  Sunil Gupta 19 Beyond the Boundaries of the Periplus: The Persian Gulf Route in the Supply to Myos Hormos and Berenike  Roberta Tomber 20 Foreign Iconographic Elements in South Arabian Art: The Indian Contribution  Serena Autiero Part 3: Modern and Contemporary Age 21 Suakin and Al Khandaq: The Influence of a Sea Port on a River Port  Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam and Husna Taha Elatta 22 Collateral Roles in Pilgrimage  Jacke S. Phillips 23 A Life Shaped by the Sea: Maritime Heritage in Suakin  Shadia Taha 24 Timber for Ships: Considering Wood Supply for Boatbuilding in Jizan and the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia  Lucy Semaan Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLand Reform Revisited engages with contemporary debates on land reform and agrarian transformation in South Africa. The volume offers insights into post-apartheid transformation dynamics through the lens of agency and state making. The chapters written by emerging scholars are based on extensive qualitative research and their analysis highlights the ways in which people negotiate and contest land reform realities and politics. By focusing on the diverse meanings of land and competing interpretations of what constitutes success and failure in land reform Brandt and Mkodzongi insist on looking beyond the productivity discourses guiding research and policy making in the field towards an informed view from below. Contributors are: Kezia Batisai, Femke Brandt, Sarah Bruchhausen, Nerhene Davis, Elene Cloete, Tariro Kamuti, Tarminder Kaur, Grasian Mkodzongi, Camalita Naicker, Fani Ncapayi, Mnqobi Ngubane, and Chizuko Sato.Trade Review'This volume is well written, in so far as individual chapters and the main argument are concerned and a must read for anyone interested on land reform.[...] all chapters manage to succeed in convincing the reader that we need to think about land beyond the big commercial agricultural productivity model because land is complex as there are different meanings of land to different people'. Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba in Transformations. Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Vol. 100, pp. 228-233.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Revisiting South Africa’s Land and Agrarian Questions  Grasian Mkodzongi and Femke Brandt Part 2: Meanings of Democracy 2 Broadening Conceptions of Democracy and Citizenship: The Subaltern Histories of Rural Resistance in Mpondoland and Marikana  Sarah Bruchhausen and Camalita Naicker 3 From Material to Cultural: Historiographic Approaches to the Eastern Cape’s Agrarian Past  Elene Cloete 4 South Africa’s Dangerous Game: Re-configuring Power and Belonging on Karoo Trophy-hunting Farms  Femke Brandt 5 Gendered Nationhood and the Land Question in South Africa 20 Years after Democracy  Kezia Batisai Part 3: State-Making 6 Farm Worker ‘Development’ Agendas: What Does Sports Have to Do with It?  Tarminder Kaur 7 Intricacies of Game Farming and Outstanding Land Restitution Claims in the Gongolo Area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa  Tariro Kamuti 8 Inclusive Business Models in South African Land Restitution: Great Expectations and Ambiguous Outcomes Explored  Nerhene Davis 9 ‘We Won’t Have Zim-style Land Grabs’: What Can South Africa Learn from Zimbabwe’s Fast-track Land Reforms?  Grasian Mkodzongi Part 4: Agency, Identity, and Belonging 10 Khoisan Revivalism and Land Question in Post-Apartheid South Africa  Chizuko Sato 11 The Land-reform Programme and Its Contribution to the Livelihoods of Poor People  Fani Ncapayi 12 ‘Disrupting Spatial Legacies’: Dismantled Game Farms as Success Stories of Land Reform?  Mnqobi Ngubane Part 5: Conclusion 13 Agency and State Planning in South Africa’s Land-reform Process  Femke Brandt and Grasian Mkodzongi Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyyah and Aḥmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Map of Brava in Regional Context Introduction Note on the Primary Sources of This Publication Reference List to the Poets and Their Poems Annotated List of Islamic Scholars and Texts Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi The Poems Sheikh Uways Biography Sheikh Uways’s Poem  1 Aḻfeeni msaḻiḻeeni (Ask God to bless him two thousand times) Sheikh Qasim Biography Sheikh Qasim’s Poems  1 Daada Maasiṯi nsoomela duʾa (Dada Masiti, pray for me)  2 Chidirke ya Rasuuḻ Aḻḻah (Rescue us, O Prophet of God)  3 Salaaṯun saḻaamun ʿala aḻ-Musṯafa (Peace and blessings upon the Chosen One)  4 Meezi wa keendra (In the ninth month)  5 Hamziyyah, Jisi gani khpaandra mitume anbiya (Hamziyyah or How could the other prophets rise?)  6 Ḻa ilaaha ntaku Maʾabuudi wa haqi (There is no god but the true God)  7 Nakaanza khṯuunga marjaani (I start stringing coral beads)  8 Ya Sheekhi Abduḻqaadiri (O Shaykh ʿAbdulqādir)  9 Ya Nabiyi salaam ʿaleika (O Prophet, peace be upon you)  10 Ndruuza kasaani sowṯiya (O Brothers, listen to my voice) Dada Masiti Biography Dada Masiti’s Poems  1 Baʾdi ya hayy ni mowṯi (After life comes death)  2 Sayyid Jamaladiini (Sayyid Jamaladdin)  3 Ya Rabbi ya Muṯaʾaali (O Lord, You who are Exalted)  4 Sharru ḻ-bilaadi (The evil that plagues the country)  5 Ya Rabbi ya Rahmaani (O Lord, You who are Compassionate)  6 Mowḻaana Muhyidiini (O our lord Muḥyī al-Dīn)  7 Aḻḻahu Akbar Aḻḻaahu (God is the Greatest, O God)  8 Sayyidi yiitu Siṯeeni (O our Lady) Mallim Nuri Biography Mallim Nuri’s Poems  1 Shṯeenzi cha ahḻu al-sabri (The poem of those who were steadfast in adversity)  2 Shṯeenzi cha Aʾisha (The poem of Aʾisha)  3 Shṯeenzi cha Aamina (The poem of Amina)  4 Mooja mreheme Aṯeeni (O God, have mercy upon Ateni)  5 Chidirke Maana Faaṯima (Rescue us, O Lady Fatima!)  6 Shṯeenzi cha masadaaṯi (The poem of the Sharifs)  7 Shṯeenzi cha Hasani na Huseeni (The poem of Hassan and Hussein)  8 Shṯeenzi cha Haawa na Aadamu (The poem of Ḥawwāʾ (Eve) and Adam)  9 Shṯeenzi cha kibri (The poem of pride)  10 Madad madad (Come to our help O Prophet)  11 Shṯeenzi cha mahaaji (The poem of the pilgrims)  12 Shṯeenzi cha miʾraaji (The poem of the miʿrāj)  13 Mooja chiloongole (May God guide us)  14 Mooja ondrola d̲h̲ibu (O God, remove troubles)  15 Mṯawasuleeni Musṯafa (Seek the intercession of the Chosen One)  16 Shṯeenzi cha sabri (The poem of forbearance)  17 Shṯeenzi cha sala ṯimaamu (The poem of the correct prayer)  18 Shṯeenzi cha Sayyida Khadija (The poem of Lady Khadija)  19 Shṯeenzi cha Sheikh Nureeni (The poem of Sheikh Nureni)  20 Shṯeenzi cha Faaṯima (The poem of Fatima)  21 Shṯeenzi cha hijja (The poem of the pilgrimage)  22 Shṯeenzi cha soomu (The poem of fasting)  23 Shṯeenzi cha udhʾhiya (The poem of ritual sacrifice)  24 Zubadi (The Cream) Sheikh Mohamed Sufi Biography Sheikh Mohamed Sufi’s Poems  1 Aadhaḻḻe aadha (Beware! Beware!)  2 Akhuaaniza kasaani (Listen to me, O brothers)  3 Salaaṯu na amaani (Blessings and peace upon the Prophet)  4 Susumuki (Will you not wake up?)  5 Iyi ni bishaara (These are glad tidings) Abastide Mohamed Sheikh Abba Biography Abastide Mohamed Sheikh Abba’s Poems  1 Yā man yarā wa lā yurā (O you who see and are not seen)  2 Sheekhi Imaamu aḻ-Ghazaali (O Sheikh Imam al-Ghazālī)  3 Mtume shtiilo galadi na fadhiila (Through the Prophet we attain God’s support and favour) Appendix 1: Names of God Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 2: Names and Attributes of the Prophet Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 3: Names of Fatima Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 4: Names of Angels Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 5: Names of Prophets Mentioned in the Sṯeenzi Appendix 6: Musical Annotation of the Sṯeenzi Glossary Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on AnchorTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1 1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam 3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds 4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines 5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas 6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures 7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism 8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan 9 The Illusion of Abolition 10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLong regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of original contributions by leading Africanists presents extensive new historical views of the forts in Ghana and Benin, providing both impetus and a scholarly basis for further research and fresh debate about their historical and geographical contexts; their role in the slave trade; the economic and political connections, centred on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and their place in variously focused heritage studies and endeavours. Contributors are Hermann W. von Hesse, Daniel Hopkins, Jon Olav Hove, Ole Justesen, Ineke van Kessel, Robin Law, John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Jarle Simensen, Selena Axelrod Winsnes†, Larry Yarak.Trade Review'Very significantly, reader and researchers using Forts, Castles And Society In West Africa: Gold Coast & Dahomey will benefit from learning the fortresses roles in what critics have described as the abominable slave trade as well as the economic and political connections, which are centered on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and also their place in various focused heritage studies and endeavors. The 276-page Forts, Castles And Society In West Africa: Gold Coast & Dahomey is a publication that can tremendously benefit college students at all levels as well as researchers and the general reader. Both the editor and the contributors deserve praise in giving an old subject matter a fresh overview to make it an appropriate sequel, where Ghana is concerned, to Professor Albert Van Dantzig’s 1980 pioneering work, Forts and Castles of Ghana'. Nana Abena D. Amoah-Ramey, Indiana University-Bloomington, in African and Asian Studies,18 (2019) pp. 213-231 'The multi-dimensional and thought-provoking nature of this book is a major contribution to our understanding of the West African forts and castles between 1450 and 1960. [...] Osei-Tutu is to be strongly credited for his efforts in bringing together a variety of scholars in order to provide a comprehensive and coherent presentation of what has been, until recently, a mostly sporadic and superficial attention to West African forts and castles'. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Hampshire College, in African Archaeological Review (2020) 37: 639–641Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Forts, Castles, and Society in West Africa  John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu 2 Gold Coast Forts and Castles: Key Themes and Perspectives  Jarle Simensen 3 ‘Heaven Is High Above, and Europe Is Far Away’, so Christiansborg Prevails  Selena Axelrod Winsnes 4 ‘Creative and Expedient Misunderstandings’: Elmina-Dutch Relations in the 19th Century  Larry Yarak 5 Wax Prints in West Africa: Unravelling the Myth of Dutch Colonial Soldiers as Cultural Brokers  Ineke van Kessel 6William’s Fort: The English Fort at Ouidah, 1680s–1960s  Robin Law 7The Danish Guinea Coast Forts, Denmark’s Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and African Colonial Policy, 1788–1850  Daniel Hopkins 8Political Relations between Osu and Christiansborg, 1803–1826  Ole Justesen 9Cosmopolitan Conundrums: Impacts of Trade Fortresses on the Gã Space, 1450–1870  John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and Hermann W. von Hesse 10Forts and Castles in the Colonial Period: Uses and Understandings of the Pre-colonial Fortifications  Jon Olav Hove `

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Book SynopsisSurvival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era relocation. While scholars and activists have long recognised the suffering caused by apartheid removals to the so-called 'homelands', the experiences of those who lived through this process have been more often obscured. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, this book examines the makings and the multiple meanings of relocation into two of the most notorious apartheid 'dumping grounds' established in the Ciskei bantustan during the mid-1960s: Sada and Ilinge. Evans examines the local and global dynamics of the project of bantustan relocation and develops a multi-layered analysis of the complex histories - and ramifications- of displacement and resettlement in the Ciskei.Trade Review[...] 'Das mit viel Empathie für die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Ciskei geschriebene Buch hat seine Stärke in der Empirie. Es zeigt differenziert deren Handlungsmöglichkeiten und -grenzen unter den vorgegebenen Verwaltungsstrukturen auf, so trägt es zur Sozialgeschichte des früheren Homelands bei.' [...] Rita Schäfer in Dhau - Yearbook for Extra-European History 5/2020, pp. 235-240. [...] Survival in the ‘Dumping Grounds is a brilliant work of social history. Evans effortlessly provides a clear and concise account of the tragedy of apartheid in South Africa, expertly executes a nuanced historical analysis with insight into the imperial foundation in which apartheid anchored its segregationist policies, and meticulously presents the stories of Black South Africans who experienced relocation to the bantustans. It is well-researched and masterfully written. Therefore, this book would be ideal for both novice students and expert scholars of Africa. Moreover, it accomplishes the duality of capturing the complexities of segregationist policies while remaining comprehensible. Constance Pruitt, Howard University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2022, pp. 75-77Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction: Rethinking Relocation in Apartheid South Africa Part 1: Regimes of Relocation  1Apartheid, the Bantustans and the End of Empire  1Peace, Population and Colonial Development, c.1920–1945  2The ‘late colonial’ Apartheid State  3Cold War in Southern Africa: Villagisation and Counter-insurgency  2Regimes of Relocation in the Ciskei  1The Cape as Apartheid Test Case  2The Relocation Regime  3Villagisation and Repression  4Decolonisation, Repatriation and Resettlement  5The Expansion of Sada and Ilinge  6White Farmers and Relocation Part 2: Repertoires of Relocation  3Dislocation and Disrupted Livelihoods: Removals, Evictions and Banishments  1The Coercive Relocation Regime  2The Biopolitics of Neglect  3Displacement and Marginal Livelihoods  4Farm Evictions: Enclosure and Dispossession  5Urban Removals: Dislocation and Deprivation  6Political Banishment: Surveillance and Isolation  7‘We were starving. And we survived’: Gender, Domesticity and Displacement  4Farm Dwellers and Relocation: Gender, Generation and Agrarian Change  1Farm Labour and Agrarian Change  2Gender, Generation and Changing Men  3Changing Livelihoods and the Transformation of Aspirations  4Migration, Male Breadwinners and Masculinity  5Gender, Autonomy and Impoverishment: The Paradoxical Impacts of Relocation  Part 3 Place, Space and Power  5‘We Came from Different Places’: Displacement and Place-Making  1Forced Removals and ‘communities of memory’  2The Emergence of Underground Networks in Sada and Ilinge  3Churches, Spirituality and Sociability  4Poverty, Survival and Reciprocity  6Relocation and the State: Relations of Rule  1Territoriality and the Gendered Disciplinary Project of the BAD, c. 1963–71  2Ethnic Politics, Clientelism and Coercion under Ciskei, c.1971–80  Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book documents and interprets the trajectory of ethnographic museums in Tunisia from the colonial to the post-revolutionary period, demonstrating changes and continuities in role, setting and architecture across shifting ideological landscapes. The display of everyday culture in museums is generally looked down upon as being kitsch and old-fashioned. This research shows that, in Tunisia, ethnographic museums have been highly significant sites in the definition of social identities. They have worked as sites that diffuse social, economic and political tensions through a vast array of means, such as the exhibition itself, architecture, activities, tourism, and consumerism. The book excavates the evolution of paradigms in which Tunisian popular identity has been expressed through the ethnographic museum, from the modernist notion of 'indigenous authenticity' under colonial time, to efforts at developing a Tunisian ethnography after Independence, and more recent conceptions of cultural diversity since the revolution. Based on a combination of archival research in Tunisia and in France, participant observation and interviews with past and present protagonists in the Tunisian museum field, this research brings to light new material on an understudied area.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Transliteration Introduction Part 1: Mapping Tunisian Material Culture (1881-1956) Introduction to Part 1 1 Artisanship Revival in the Maghreb 2 The Tunisian Arts Part 2: Ethnographic Objects (1957-1980) Introduction to Part 2 3 Le centre des arts et traditions populaires 4 Les musées d’arts et traditions populaires 5 Carving a Modern Tunisian Identity in Traditions 6 Le patrimoine vivant Part 3: Patrimonialisation (1985-2011) Introduction to Part 3 7 Turning Traditional Culture into Heritage 8 The Heteronomous Pole of Cultural Production 9 Museums and Communities Part 4: Revolutionary Museums (2011-2015) Introduction to Part 4 10 The Field of Museum Production 11 The Journey of an Ethnographic Museum from the Colonial to the Post-Revolutionary Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn Azanian Trio offers an account of early Arab involvement in and knowledge of East African history and culture. All three manuscripts originated in East Africa and hence reflect the influence of Swahili and other local languages. They cover two millennia of South Arabian and East African History from the early Himyaritic period to the beginning of the 20th century.Trade Review"An Azanian Trio begins to fill a gap in the translation and publication of written local sources for those who research East African history and it sheds light on the pre-Islamic past of the Swahili coast.[...] The editors and translators of An Azanian Trio have done something that archaeologists and historians of East Africa have long needed; not only have they provided new translations of historical sources, but they have also relaunched a forgotten field of study." - Anna Rita Coppola, in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 56:1 (2021), 147-14

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Book SynopsisTravelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the transdisciplinary fields on Indian Ocean Studies.Trade Review"This collection throws ‘light on the issue of “Travelling Pasts” across the Indian Ocean’ (p. 16) by explaining how maritime activity involves considerable complexity, and in doing so contributes to ‘inclusive understanding of maritime cultural heritage cuts across political boundaries’ (p. 57). The book underscores how cultural heritage has and continues to be subject to political influence, and that it is still being used for political ends. It remains to be seen what the future holds for heritage governance in the Indian Ocean, with growing populations and mobility of peoples, and increasingly contested spaces and resources. This book will no doubt will be of considerable value to scholars and researchers working in history, heritage, politics, anthropology and many other areas of past and future Indian Ocean." - Erika Techera, UWA Law School and UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, in: Journal of the Indian Ocean Region [DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603]Table of ContentsContents List of Figures, Maps and Tables Notes on Contributors Travelling Pasts: An Introduction  Burkhard Schnepel Part 1: Indian Ocean Cultural Heritage and the ‘World’  1 Global Linkages, Connectivity and the Indian Ocean in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena  Christoph Brumann  2 ‘Project Mausam’. India’s Transnational Initiative: Revisiting UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention  Himanshu Prabha Ray  3 The History of the Hajj as Heritage: Asset or Burden to the Saudi State?  Ulrike Freitag Part 2: (Im-)materialities on the Move  4 Materiality and Mobility: Comparative Notes on Heritagization in the Indian Ocean World  Katja Müller and Boris Wille  5 Ambiguous Pasts: The Indian Ocean World in Cape Town’s Public History  Nigel Worden Part 3: Travelling Pasts in the Eastern Indian Ocean World  6 Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, Connectivity, and Identity in the Maritime World  Tansen Sen  7 The Uses of ‘Chinese Heritage’: Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China in the Contemporary Indo-Pacific World  Geoffrey Wade  8 Heritage Food: The Materialization of Connectivity in Nyonya Cooking  Mareike Pampus Part 4: Travelling Pasts in the Western Indian Ocean World  9 Contradictions in the Heritagization of Zanzibar ‘Stone Town’  Abdul Sheriff  10 The Production of Identities on the Island of Mayotte: A Historical Perspective  Iain Walker Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Environmental Change and African Societies Julia Tischler and Ingo Haltermann Part 1 Ideas 1 To See or Not to See: On the ‘Absence’ of Climate Change (Discourse) in Maasailand, Northern Tanzania Sara de Wit 2 Perspectives on Climate Change in Makonde District, Zimbabwe since 2000 Vimbai Kwashirai Part 2 Past 3 Environmental and Climate Change in Africa: Global Drought and Local Environmental Infrastructure Emmanuel Kreike 4 Shamba Forestry in Colonial Kenya: Colonial Dominance or African Opportunity? Ben Fanstone Part 3 Present 5 I’m Staying! Climate Variability and Circular Migration in Burkina Faso Jonas Østergaard Nielsen 6 Living with a Changing Climate in sub-Saharan Africa: More of the Same Joy Clancy 7 Sustainable Mauritius? Environmental Change, Energy Efficiency, and Sustainable Development in a Small Island State in the Indian Ocean Laura Jeffery 8 Transformative Learning for Global Change? Reflections on the wascal Master Programme in Climate Change and Education in the Gambia Irit Eguavoen and Erick Tambo Part 4 Prospects 9 Africa in Transition: What Role for the Environment? Ton Dietz 10 Africa’s High Modernism: Historical Ecologies of Climate Change and Hydrologies of Watersheds (Blue Nile and Zambezi) James C. McCann 11 Increasing Urbanisation and the Role of Green Spaces in Urban Climate Resilience in Africa Bertrand F. Nero, Daniel Callo- Concha, and Manfred Denich Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2020 Winner of the 2021 African Studies Review Prize for the Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea introduces readers to current research on major topics in the history and cultures of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh century to the mid-sixteenth, with insights into foundational late-antique developments where appropriate. Multiconfessional in scope, it includes in its purview both the Christian kingdom and the Islamic and local-religious societies that have attracted increasing attention in recent decades, tracing their internal features, interrelations, and imbrication in broader networks stretching from Egypt and Yemen to Europe and India. Utilizing diverse source types and methodologies, its fifteen essays offer an up-to-date overview of the subject for students and nonspecialists, and are rich in material for researchers. Contributors are Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion. See inside the book.Trade Review"Here we are well served by Samantha Kelly's Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Each chapter conveys a sense of discovery. As Kelly reminds us, we are dealing with a field marked by "the continual expansion of the available source base" due to the ongoing digitalization of Ethiopic manuscripts in Ethiopia itself and in libraries throughout the world. Yet perhaps the most exciting contribution of the Companion is a new view of Ethiopia itself. Christian Ethiopia has tended to be treated as an isolated mountain hideaway where time stood still; Edward Gibbon, at his most sonorous and most wrongheaded, wrote, "Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten". The reverse was true. Medieval Ethiopia (which includes much of modern Eritrea) was a frontier society, penetrated in all directions by routes that led from the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean deep into Equatorial Africa. This reenvisioning of medieval Ethiopia is, perhaps, the most challenging aspect of the Companion. In the words of one contributor of Kelly's volume, "Let us hope that the image of an archaic, never evolving and isolated country is no longer acceptable". "The Glories of Aksum", by Peter Brown, in The New York Review of Books, October 2021, accessible here. Winner of the 2021 African Studies Review Prize for the Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection. The awarding committee made the following statement, accessible here: "The ASR Prize for the Best Africa-Focused Anthology or Edited Collection recognizes editors and contributors to an anthology of original scholarship, cohesive in structure and interdisciplinary in nature, that advances African studies in new theoretical and/or methodological directions. The award recognizes the editor(s) and also the contributors as a whole. In making its selection, the prize committee pays particular attention to significance, originality, and quality of writing, and the anthology’s contribution to advancing debates in African studies. [...] This stellar edited volume makes available recent scholarship on the history of Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Comprehensive in its scope, the sixteen chapters by the international scholars Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion bring to light various dimensions of the history and culture of this region. The chapters explore various dimensions of the history of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh to the sixteenth century, including Christianity, Islam, and local religions, women, trade, literature, and visual culture. In addition to providing an insightful panorama of the religious and cultural contexts in the area, the diverse authors are very successful in articulating different textual and visual sources while employing several different methodological approaches. Innovative and based on extensive research, this is a unique edited volume that showcases the rich connections between the region of Ethiopia-Eritrea, the African continent, and the rest of the globe. This magisterial edited book is an important contribution to African Studies, which will be useful for scholars and students interested in the history of Africa, Ethiopia, and Eritrea." "Ce volume propose un remarquable état des lieux de la recherche sur l’histoire de l’Éthiopie médiévale, c’est-à-dire de la période allant de la fin du royaume d’Axoum (VIIe siècle) jusqu’à celui de Gondar (XVIIe siècle). Il couvre plus parti culièrement le temps des dynasties Zagwe (à partir de 1270) et salomonide, une période de relative stabilité, sans cesse renégociée, et de prospérité durant laquelle furent façonnés des traits du pays et de son Église. [...] Complété par 5 cartes et 25 illustrations la plupart en couleurs, dans le texte (surtout pour les manuscrits et les arts visuels), une impressionnante bibliographie (82 pages !) et un bon index (noms, thèmes), ce volume n’en constitue pas moins un remarquable instrument de travail." ISTINA LXV (2020)

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Book SynopsisIn Europeans and Africans Michał Tymowski analyses the first contacts between the Portuguese and other Europeans and Western Africans in the 15th and early 16th centuries, the cultural and psychological as well as the organizational aspects of contacts. The territorial scope of the research encompasses the West African coast. Michał Tymowski describes and analyses the feelings and emotions which accompanied the contacts, of both Africans and Europeans, analyses the methods in which both parties communicated and organized the first encounters as well as the influence of these contacts on the cultures of both sides. The work is based on a variety of source material, written sources and works of African art, in which Africans’ opinions and emotions are reflected.Table of Contents List of Figures and Maps  Abbreviations X  Introduction  Part 1: Beginnings  1 Fear and Courage  2 Death and Attitudes to Death  3 How Did They Communicate?   3.1 Interpreters   3.2 The First Dictionary  4 Astonishment, Wonder and Curiosity  Part 2: Encounters  5 Feasts  6 First Meetings  6.1 The Valarte-Guitenyia Meeting  6.2 The Ca da Mosto-Budomel Meeting  6.3 The Azambuja-Caramansa Meeting  6.4 Comparing the Three Meetings  7 Places of Trade  8 Embassies of African Rulers to Portugal  8.1The Embassy from Benin  8.2The Voyage to Portugal of Bumi Jeleen, Toppled Ruler of the Wolof  Part 3: A Minority among the Majority  9 African Slaves in Portugal – Cultural and Psychological Aspects  10Degredados, Lançados, Tangomaos – Portuguese Exiles and Fugitives  11 Women  Part 4: Both Sides about the Other  12 Europeans’ Perceptions of Africans  13 Africans’ Perceptions of Europeans  Conclusions  Figures and Maps  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisDans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.Trade Review[...] 'Camara stands alongside powerful thinkers such as Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, and Boubou Hama in describing the uniqueness and complexity of sociopolitical thought in West Africa. Bertho and Rodet have done a great service in providing this material to readers at the undergraduate, graduate, or scholarly levels. The volume, well-produced and edited by the Brill team and highly accessible in its bilingual form, will yield years of further insights into the place of Islamic genealogical, juridical, and political connections among West African groups previously thought of as largely animist, the role of slavery and violence in postcolonial West African societies prior to full-scale French arrival, and local processes of intellectual production'.[...] Douglas W. Leonard, United States Air Force Academy, in Journal of West African History, Volume 8.1, (2022), pp. 176-178Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Remerciements Acknowledgments List of Illustrations / Table des illustrations Introduction – version française Note sur la transcription Prélude : enquête autour d’ un tapuscrit retrouvé  Elara Bertho Sur les traces de Djiguiba Camara : introduction au tapuscrit “Essai d’ histoire locale”  Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet “Essai d’ histoire locale” – version française Introduction – English Version A Note on Transcription Foreword : Investigating a Found Typescript  Elara Bertho In the Footsteps of Djiguiba Camara: An Introduction to the Typescript of “Essai d’ histoire locale”  Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet “Essai d’ histoire locale” – English Version Bibliographie Index des auteurs

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Book SynopsisIn Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke compares the divergent development of coffee production in eastern Congo and western Rwanda during the colonial period. The Lake Kivu region offers a remarkable case-study to investigate diversity in economic development. In Rwanda, on the eastern side of the lake, coffee was mainly cultivated by smallholder families, while in the Congo, on the western side of the lake, European plantations were the dominant mode of production. Making use of a wide array of largely untapped archival sources, Sven Van Melkebeke convincingly succeeds in moving the manuscript beyond a case-study of colonizers to a more nuanced history of interaction and in presenting an innovative new social history of labor and land processes.Trade Review' [...] His comparative approach in two territories government is innovative in how he notes how the economic regime of each region affected each other. [...] Van Melkebeke convincingly does describe how material conditions (access to land, the role of private businesses and colonial state policies, the role of African elites) can explain the divergence between African producers dominating in Rwanda compared to European-controlled plantations in the Belgian Congo. [...] This study is a valuable addition to the neglected economic history of the Great Lakes region in Central Africa that is well situated in the larger literature on colonial cash crop agriculture in colonial Africa'. Jeremy Rich, Marywood University, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 54, No. 1 (2021), pp. 117-118Table of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables  Acknowledgments  Abbreviations  Introduction 1 Relevance of This Research   1.1 A Historiographical Sketch of Belgian Africa   1.2 Theoretical Framework  2 Geographical and Temporal Scope  3 Coffee Cultivation in Belgian Africa  4 Methodology and Sources  5 Administrative Note  6 Outline  Prelude: The Lake Kivu Region in the Nineteenth Century  1 Lake Kivu’s Communities  2 Peculiarities of the Region  Part 1 Structural Basis 1 Coffee Production: From the Global to the Local  1 The Roots   1.1 “Out of Africa”   1.2 African “Comeback” and the “Birth” of the Kivu Coffee  2 Producing for the Global Market   2.1 Global Coffee Production after World War I   2.2 Belgian Africa’s Capacity   2.3 The Kivu Region  3 Conclusion 2 Explaining the Divergence  1 Historiography: Divergence in Rural Production Systems  2 The Lake Kivu Region: Why Diversity?   2.1 Environmental Factors?   2.2 Successful Examples?   2.3 German Legacy?   2.4 Cost-Effectiveness?   2.5 Famine of 1928–1929?   2.6 Racially Defined Diversity?   2.7 Population Density – Land Availability?   2.8 Customary Land Tenure?   2.9 Mandate versus Colony?   2.10 Land, Locality and Legality as Prevailing Explanations  3 Diversity in Reverse  3.1 Smallholding in Eastern Congo  3.2 Plantations in Western Rwanda  4 Conclusion Part 2 On the Ground 3 Mobilizing Land for the Coffee Sector  1 The Congolese Kivu: Customary Land Systems and the Early Colonial Period   1.1 Changing Access to Land   1.2 Disputes Over Land   1.3 The Role of the Local Administration  2 The Rwandan Kivu   2.1 Customary Land Tenure and the German Period   2.2 Belgium Enters the Scene   2.3 Land-related Tensions   2.4 Administrative Interventions  3 Conclusion 4 Mobilizing Coffee-Cultivating Labor  1 Colonial Coffee Labor   1.1 Entering the Plantations   1.2 It’s All about the Numbers   1.3 Plantations versus Mines  2 Coffee Labor in the Mandate   2.1 Customary Labor Mobilization and “Chiefly” Cultivation   2.2 Vulgarization and Mobilization of the Rural Masses   2.3 Other Kinds of Coffee Labor  3 Conclusion 5 Coffee Labor on the Spot  1 Workforce West of Lake Kivu   1.1 Dual Employment Categories?   1.2 Remunerating Laborers   1.3 Labor Conditions  2 Workforce East of Lake Kivu   2.1 Coffee Production at Household Level   2.2 Working Conditions in the Smallholder Sector   2.3 Rwandan Plantation Workers  3 Conclusion 6 African Feedback  1 “Weapons of the Weak”   1.1 The Cosyns Case   1.2 Migrations   1.3 Desertions and Absenteeism   1.4 Coffee Pilferage and “illegal” Trade   1.5 Various Kinds of Sabotage  2 Lake Kivu Peasants   2.1 How to Understand “Peasants”?   2.2 Household (Plantation) Land   2.3 Markets and Trade   2.4 Income Diversification and the Role of Women  3 Conclusion  Conclusion: A Merger Based on Diversity and Compromise  1 On Differentiation  2 On Compromise  Annex 1: Decree on Coffee Limitations (1938)  Archives  1 African Archives Brussels (AAB)  1.1 Belgian Congo  1.2 Ruanda-Urundi  2 Other Collections  References  Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2020 Winner of the 2021 African Studies Review Prize for the Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea introduces readers to current research on major topics in the history and cultures of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh century to the mid-sixteenth, with insights into foundational late-antique developments where appropriate. Multiconfessional in scope, it includes in its purview both the Christian kingdom and the Islamic and local-religious societies that have attracted increasing attention in recent decades, tracing their internal features, interrelations, and imbrication in broader networks stretching from Egypt and Yemen to Europe and India. Utilizing diverse source types and methodologies, its fifteen essays offer an up-to-date overview of the subject for students and nonspecialists, and are rich in material for researchers. Contributors are Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion. See inside the book.Trade Review"Here we are well served by Samantha Kelly's Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Each chapter conveys a sense of discovery. As Kelly reminds us, we are dealing with a field marked by "the continual expansion of the available source base" due to the ongoing digitalization of Ethiopic manuscripts in Ethiopia itself and in libraries throughout the world. Yet perhaps the most exciting contribution of the Companion is a new view of Ethiopia itself. Christian Ethiopia has tended to be treated as an isolated mountain hideaway where time stood still; Edward Gibbon, at his most sonorous and most wrongheaded, wrote, "Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten". The reverse was true. Medieval Ethiopia (which includes much of modern Eritrea) was a frontier society, penetrated in all directions by routes that led from the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean deep into Equatorial Africa. This reenvisioning of medieval Ethiopia is, perhaps, the most challenging aspect of the Companion. In the words of one contributor of Kelly's volume, "Let us hope that the image of an archaic, never evolving and isolated country is no longer acceptable". "The Glories of Aksum", by Peter Brown, in The New York Review of Books, October 2021, accessible here. Winner of the 2021 African Studies Review Prize for the Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection. The awarding committee made the following statement, accessible here: "The ASR Prize for the Best Africa-Focused Anthology or Edited Collection recognizes editors and contributors to an anthology of original scholarship, cohesive in structure and interdisciplinary in nature, that advances African studies in new theoretical and/or methodological directions. The award recognizes the editor(s) and also the contributors as a whole. In making its selection, the prize committee pays particular attention to significance, originality, and quality of writing, and the anthology’s contribution to advancing debates in African studies. [...] This stellar edited volume makes available recent scholarship on the history of Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Comprehensive in its scope, the sixteen chapters by the international scholars Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion bring to light various dimensions of the history and culture of this region. The chapters explore various dimensions of the history of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh to the sixteenth century, including Christianity, Islam, and local religions, women, trade, literature, and visual culture. In addition to providing an insightful panorama of the religious and cultural contexts in the area, the diverse authors are very successful in articulating different textual and visual sources while employing several different methodological approaches. Innovative and based on extensive research, this is a unique edited volume that showcases the rich connections between the region of Ethiopia-Eritrea, the African continent, and the rest of the globe. This magisterial edited book is an important contribution to African Studies, which will be useful for scholars and students interested in the history of Africa, Ethiopia, and Eritrea." "Ce volume propose un remarquable état des lieux de la recherche sur l’histoire de l’Éthiopie médiévale, c’est-à-dire de la période allant de la fin du royaume d’Axoum (VIIe siècle) jusqu’à celui de Gondar (XVIIe siècle). Il couvre plus parti culièrement le temps des dynasties Zagwe (à partir de 1270) et salomonide, une période de relative stabilité, sans cesse renégociée, et de prospérité durant laquelle furent façonnés des traits du pays et de son Église. [...] Complété par 5 cartes et 25 illustrations la plupart en couleurs, dans le texte (surtout pour les manuscrits et les arts visuels), une impressionnante bibliographie (82 pages !) et un bon index (noms, thèmes), ce volume n’en constitue pas moins un remarquable instrument de travail." ISTINA LXV (2020)

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Book SynopsisThis compilation of chapters of the Africa Yearbook (2009-2018) confirms that the people of Central African Republic experienced dramatic events over a period of ten years, not only from 2013 onwards when the Séléka rebels managed to take the capital Bangui. The scattered arenas of conflict demand a differentiated look at local dynamics and actor constellations. Outside influences have interfered with domestic politics and socio-economic developments while CAR’s humanitarian crises and above all refugees and IDPs have triggered international responses on an unprecedented scale for a country that has now left the shadow zone of a typical “aid orphan”. A bibliography of recent scholarly work complements the collection of articles

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage décrit la politique africaine du Maroc sous le règne de Mohammed VI, et démontre comment la construction d’une identité de role autour de la notion de “juste milieu” affecte les representations du Royaume de son environnement international. This book describes Morocco's African policy under the reign of Mohammed VI, and demonstrates how the construction of a role identity around the notion of "golden mean" affects the Kingdom's representations of its international environment.Table of ContentsPréface Sigles et acronymes Introduction  1 « Le Maroc prend le Sud » : élan apollinien ou dionysien ?  2 Monde arabe et monde africain dans l’étude des relations internationales  3 Une approche constructiviste de l'identité  4 Le défi de la multidisciplinarité dans l’étude de la politique étrangère du Maroc  5 Objectifs et plan de l’ouvrage 1 Genèse d’une politique africaine au Maroc : le Royaume à la quête de reconnaissance internationale  1 Introduction  2 Mesurer l’émergence du Maroc à l’aune du nouvel ordre mondial : l’émergence de l’Afrique dans un monde « multiplex »  3 De l’ambition de l’émergence à l’ambition de la puissance : le développement des relations internationales du Royaume  4 La construction discursive de l’identité de rôle internationale du Maroc autour de la notion de « juste milieu »  5 L’Afrique comme « nouvelle frontière » 2 Les déterminants historiques de l’orientation africaine de la diplomatie  1 Introduction  2 L’histoire comme déterminant objectif de l’ordre géopolitique. Le projet du « Grand Maroc » d’Allal El Fassi  3 Premiers pas vers la construction du multilatéralisme africain  4 De la Guerre des sables à la trahison de l’OUA : le Sahara occidental marocain, un problème africain  5 La recherche de leadership au sein d’une union régionale avec la Libye : une alternative échouée  6 Le Royaume de la Guerre froide face à la puissance française en Afrique  7 « Partenariat rénové » et nouvelle politique en Afrique à la fin de la Guerre froide  8 Cessez-le-feu et plan de paix au lendemain de la Guerre froide : la naissance de la diplomatie des voix 3 La fabrique de la politique africaine : prééminence royale et mobilisation diplomatique  1 Introduction  2 Le style du Roi dans la politique étrangère : un rôle à deux niveaux  3 Les Affaires étrangères : un « Ministère de Souveraineté »  4 Modernisation et professionnalisation de l’appareil diplomatique au service d’une stratégie africaine  5 La spécialisation de la diplomatie au service d’une identité de rôle du « juste milieu » : la promotion de l’inter-culturalisme et du trilatéralisme 4 Cadre de représentation d’une intégration régionale  1 Introduction  2 La défense de l’intégrité territoriale : cadre politique de la définition de l’entourage  3 L’Algérie et le Front Polisario : hostis historiques publics  4 L’Afrique du Sud et le Nigéria : adversaires géopolitiques ou futurs alliés continentaux ?  5 Perceptions partagées d’un axe anti-marocain Alger-Abuja-Pretoria  6 La représentation d’un « prolongement naturel » fondée sur les « constantes historiques » du Royaume  7 Du caractère français de la politique africaine du Royaume : l’hypothèse erronée d’un pré-carré gigogne  8 Du caractère marocain de la politique africaine du Royaume : « Mohammed VI l’Africain », manifestation du style royal en Afrique 5 Cadre de légitimation d’une intégration régionale  1 Le royaume est africain : l’inscription de l’africanité dans le cadre diplomatique  2 Le royaume est solidaire : l’intégration du cadre normatif de la coopération Sud-Sud et de la sécurité globale  3 Le royaume est modéré : la valorisation d’un legs politico-religieux par la définition d’un islam du « juste milieu » 6 L’Afrique comme terrain d’expression d’une stratégie indirecte  1 Introduction  2 Quinze ans de bilatéralisme offensif au service d’une sectorisation de la coopération  3 L’acquisition de moyens matériels par la coopération trilatérale  4 Contourner l’absence de l’UA par une diplomatie multilatérale parallèle  5 Le retour du Maroc au sein de l’UA : fin de la stratégie indirecte ? 7 Composer les leviers d’action diplomatiques pour promouvoir une identité de rôle  1 La subordination de l’outil économique aux impératifs politiques  2 Politiques d’investissements sectoriels sous la bannière de la coopération Sud-Sud  3 La promotion de l’identité de l’État par le nation branding et le capital immatériel  4 Accélérer les échanges pour réaliser l’intégration régionale : la course aux transports maritimes  5 Diplomatie d’influence : le rôle des leviers culturel et religieux  6 L’institutionnalisation des échanges avec les réseaux confrériques soufis transsahariens  7 La diffusion d’un islam du « juste milieu » en Afrique par la formation religieuse 8 Les conséquences de la politique africaine du Maroc : entre gains relatifs et transformations géopolitiques  1 Introduction  2 Les effets de la diplomatie culturelle et religieuse dans le développement de la migration vers le Maroc  3 Vers un mix des politiques étrangère et intérieure : l’exemple de la politique climatique et environnementale  4 Entériner la fin d’un clivage MENA – Subsaharan Africa : un projet régionaliste socialement construit Conclusion: Le Maroc, une puissance médiane Annexes 1 Les visites d’État de Mohammed VI à l’étranger 2000-2016 (tableau) 1 bis Les visites d’État de Mohammed VI à l’étranger 2000-2016 (carte) 2 Les discours du Roi : statistiques 3 Les IDE à destination du Maroc (1) 3 bis Les IDE à destination du Maroc (2) 4 Carte du « Grand Maroc » 5 Pays qui ont retiré leur reconnaissance de la RASD 5 bis Carte des postures diplomatiques concernant le statut du Sahara occidental marocain 6 Exportation de matériels de guerre français au Maroc (2008-2014) 7 Les IDE marocains en Afrique (1) 8 Cadre de légitimation de la politique africaine. Exemple de document relatif à la coopération Sud-Sud 9 La nouvelle route qui relie le Maroc à l’Afrique de l’Ouest 10 Les IDE marocains en Afrique (2) 11 UA : Motion de 28 États pour la suspension de la RASD 12 Les échanges commerciaux avec l’Afrique 13 Réseaux de transport en Afrique 14 Lignes maritimes Maroc – Afrique Bibliographie 316  1 Sources académiques générales  2 Sources académiques sur le Maroc et l’Afrique  3 Sources non académiques  4 Sources primaires  5 Sitographie Index

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Book SynopsisCe volume présente un récit oral par le griot célébré Djèmory Kouyaté de Nyagassola (actuelle Guinée) (décédé en 2019). Il traite de la façon dont on se souvient de l'époque qui relie la fondation de la société mandingue par Soundiata jusqu’à aujourd’hui. This volume features an oral account by the acclaimed griot Djèmory Kouyaté from Nyagassola (present-day Guinée) (d. 2019). It deals with the way the era that bridges the foundation of their society by Sunjata to their present-day society, called Manding, is remembered.

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Book SynopsisIn Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on AnchorTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1 1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam 3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds 4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines 5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas 6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures 7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism 8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan 9 The Illusion of Abolition 10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe African cities of Bata and Al-Hoceima were created during the Spanish colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. This book constructs their local history to analyse how Spanish colonialism worked, what its legacies were and the imprints it left on their national histories. The work explains the revision of collective memories of the past in the present as a form of decolonisation that seeks to build different foundations for the future in a transnational and glocal framework. The result is an exciting puzzle of individual and collective memories in which Africans contest their colonial cultural heritage and shape their identities at a global level.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cities at the decolonial margins 1. Al-Hoceima and Bata: Local histories, glocal impacts 2. Colonial imprints in African city formation 3. Cities after colonial independence: The search for collective affirmation and decolonial contestation 4. Conclusions: African cities asserting themselves in a global world 5. Primary and secondary sources consulted List of tables List of photographs Index

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Book SynopsisHow did South Sudan become one of the most striking examples of state-building failure and state collapse after years of international support? What went wrong in the state-building enterprise? How did external intervention overlap and intertwine with local processes of accumulation of power and of state formation? This book addresses these questions analysing the intersection between international and local actors and processes. Based on original ethnographic and archival data, it provides a unique account of how state-building resources were captured and manipulated by local actors at various levels, contributing to the deepening of ethnic fragmentation and the politicization of ethnicity.

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Book SynopsisWere the Dutch-Africans in southern Africa a brother nation to the Dutch or did they simply represent a lost colony? Connecting primary sources in Dutch and Afrikaans, this work tells the story of the Dutch stamverwantschap (kinship) movement between 1847 and 1900. The white Dutch-Africans were imagined to be the bridgehead to a broader Dutch identity – a ‘second Netherlands’ in the south. This study explores how the 19th century Dutch identified with and idealised a pastoral community operating within a racially segregated society on the edge of European civilisation. When the stamverwantschap dream collided with British military and economic power, the belief that race, language and religion could sustain a broader Dutch identity proved to be an illusion.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations, Notes on Currency Values and Translation Relevant Dates 1 Brother Nation or Lost Colony – Dutchness Re-imagined  Introduction  Theoretical Context  Kinship  Nation and Identity  Imperialism  Nationalism  Cultural Nationalism  Colony  Colonial Nationalism  Language  Language, Literature and National Identity  The View from Europe  Imperialism and Colonialism in the Southern African Bridgeheads 2 Dutch Writing about the Dutch Role in Southern Africa  Southern Africa in General Dutch Historiography  Provincialism or Comparativism  Dutch Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century?  Re-thinking the Relationship between the Dutch and Their Former Colonies  Religion and National Identity  Kinship with the Dutch-Africans – Myth or Reality?  Conclusion 3 The Dutch Look Back: The Birth of the Kinship Movement  Introduction  The Netherlands between 1795 and 1875 – a Period of Upheaval  Looking Back to Past Glory  Dutch National Identity  The Liberal Decades  A Colony Lost – the View from Europe  Two groups of Dutch-Africans  Stamverwantschap—the Early Years—1840 to 1875  Ulrich Gerhard Lauts  Lauts Takes the Initiative  Lauts Lobbies the Dutch Parliament  Lauts’ Legacy  The Dutch Government Mid-1850s – Tentative Engagement  Jacobus Stuart  Child Migration 1855–1870  The links sustained by education  Hendrik Hamelberg – the Importance of Personal Experience  Conclusion 4 ‘There Exists a Second Netherlands’  Introduction  The Role of the Dutch Protestant Churches among the Dutch-Africans  Dutch Newspapers and Burgers  Burgers, the Man and His Vision  Burgers’ Vision Reinforced by a Treaty and by Hamelberg  The Unmaking of Burgers  A Dopper Pastor Pours Cold Water on Enthusiasm  Dutch-Africans Attacked from ‘the left’  Metropoles Compared  The imperious British Attitude Towards the Dutch Regarding Southern Africa  The Imbalance in Shipping and Communications  Stamverwantschap Faces the Assertion of British power  Conclusion 5 Dutch Reaction to the Annexation of the Transvaal  Introduction  A measured Initial Response to the Annexation  Pleasure over Burgers’ Demise  Sand River Convention – Sovereignty and Slavery  Slavery in the Transvaal Republic– the Evidence  The Dutch Respond to British Claims  Dutch Supporters Characterise the Allegations as Propaganda  Neo-Calvinist Development of the Kinship Ideology  Dutch Reactions Harden and Protest Begins  Dutch-Africans don’t Deserve Our Support – Another Liberal View  The Dutch Government Responds – the Neutrality Policy  The Dutch ‘Official Mind’ Remains Neutral  Conclusion 6 Transvaal Rebellion Succeeds: Greater Influence for Stamverwantschap  Introduction  The Vision Survives – Excitement Builds  New Symbols of Dutchness  Harting’s Seminal Publication  Liberal Appeals to Reason and Fairness  A Prominent Liberal Looks Back in Anger  Neutrality Trumps Stamverwantschap Again in Parliament  Attacking Neutrality in the Lower House  A New Figure in the Stamverwantschap Movement  Women and the Stamverwantschap Movement  The Creation of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Vereeniging  Harting’s Vision  Conclusion 7 Rebuilding the Broken Link – the Jonkman Report  Introduction  Institutionalised Stamverwantschap – Initial Difficulties  The Liberals Require Direct Contact  The Jonkman Mission – A Divide Exposed  The Jonkman Visit  Nostalgia  Dutch Migration Needed  Connecting with Colonial Society  In the Oranje Vrijstaat  In Kruger’s Republic  Colonial Nationalism Identified  Jonkman’s Assessment of S. J. du Toit  Jonkman’s Published Conclusions  Lessons from the Jonkman Report  Conclusion 8 President Kruger visits: Dutch Capital Markets Fail Him  Introduction  Dutch National Press and English Anti-Boer Propaganda  Divisions in the Dutch Welcoming Party  Receptions for the Deputation  Controversy at Plancius – Kuyper’s Speech  A purpose and Identity for Calvinist Christians in Africa  A Liberal Response  A Declining Role for Kuyper  Inter-governmental Links with the Dutch-Africans Not Yet Established  Sobering Impact of Jorissen’s Dismissal  Jorissen’s Bold Plan  Investing in the Stamverwanten – a Bad Start by the Koch Brothers  Testing the Dutch Capital Markets  Background to Dutch Capital Raising  Harting Appeals for Support for the Capital Raising  Investors’ Questions – Meeting at the Odeon  Sovereign Risk?  Sovereign Risk Fears Stronger than Kinship  1884 – a Reality Check for the Stamverwantschap Movement  Beyond 1884 – NZASM Funds, Builds and Operates the ZAR Railways  Conclusion 9 Emigration to Southern Africa – Touchstone for Kinship?  Introduction  Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Emigration in a Northern European Context  Part 2: How the Dutch Failed Their Stamverwanten  Conclusion 10 Educating the Dutch-Africans: A Civilising Mission, or Cultural Imperialism?  Introduction  Stamverwantschap as a Vehicle for Cultural Betterment  Introducing Three Missionaries for Dutch Culture  Conclusion 11 Stamverwantschap Imagined through Language and Literature  Introduction  Language as the Conduit for Expansion of National Identity  ‘A Message to the Dutch People’  Mixed Messages from the Stamverwanten  What Dutch Adults Were Reading  Cor Pama Collection  Adult Fiction and Poetry  Bitterness and Accusations  Stories for Children  Dutch Caricatures and Cartoons  Romance and Heroism  Poetry, Literary Criticism and the Boer as Symbol  Myth or an Artistic Reaction to Reality?  Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Festschrift Sources de la transmission manuscrite en Islam brings together a set of contributions at the forefront of research on the theme of the manuscript book, writing and image in Islam, from all periods. Les mélanges Sources de la transmission manuscrite en Islam réunissent un ensemble de contributions à la pointe de la recherche sur le thème du livre manuscrit, de l’écrit et de l’image en Islam, toutes périodes confondues.Table of ContentsPréface Remerciements Illustrations et tableaux Systèmes de translittération Biographie et bibliographie de Marie-Geneviève Guesdon Tabula gratulatoria Introduction  Anne Regourd et Muriel Roiland 1 De Jean-Baptiste Couët à Pierre Fornetti: L’activité de traduction des Jeunes de langues à Constantinople, 1712-1753: Une rétrospective  Annie Berthier 2 Manuscrits arabes dans « une grande et splendide Bibliothèque publique à Rouen »  Zouhour Chaabane, Muriel Roiland et Jacqueline Sublet 3 Une copie de la Nuḫbat al-dahr fī ʿaǧāʾib al-barr wa-al-baḥr d’al-Dimašqī (BnF, Arabe 5858)  Khalid Chakor-Alami 4 L’utilisation du parchemin au Maroc au xive siècle: Notes codicologiques  François Déroche 5 La peshitta rubriquée du manuscrit BnF Syr. 402  Alain J. Desreumaux 6 Une fausse image de Saladin : notes sur l’histoire d’une enluminure du Traité des automates d’al-Ǧazarī  Anne-Marie Eddé 7 Le traité de la terminologie du soufisme de Zakariyyāʾ al-Anṣārī (824-926/1420-1520)  Abdelouahad Jahdani 8 Notes à propos de la naissance d’un manuscrit : un volume du dictionnaire biographique d’al-Ṣafadī  Khaled Kchir 9 La composition de la thériaque d’Andromaque dans la version arabe de la Thériaque à Pamphilianos  Françoise Micheau 10 Riwāya tardive en contexte : Zabīd-Yémen, à partir de la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle  Anne Regourd 11 Bilinguisme, enseignement et pratique de la médecine : le traité médical de Ḫatīb Nasawī  Francis Richard 12 La « Description du Paradis » : un poème mystique et théologique marocain et sa transmission en Afrique occidentale  Tal Tamari 13 La question de l’attribution des œuvres à leurs auteurs dans les manuscrits : le cas de Manẓūma al-ʿaqīda al-sanūsiyya al-ṣuġrā, de Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd b. Abī Bakr Bagayogo al-Wangharī (m. 1066/1655)  Saadou Traoré 14 Une famille de copistes et peintres coptes dans l’Égypte ottomane des xviie et xviiie siècles  Annie Vernay-Nouri Index

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Book SynopsisGreen tea, imported from China, occupies an important place in the daily lives of Malians. They spend so much time preparing and consuming the sugared beverage that it became the country’s national drink. To find out how Malians came to practice the tea ritual, this study follows the beverage from China to Mali on its historical trade routes halfway around the globe. It examines the circumstances of its introduction, the course of the tea ritual, the equipment to prepare and consume it, and the meanings that it assumed in the various places on its travel across geographical regions, political economies, cultural contexts, and religious affiliations.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Following the Drink  1 Tea as a Subject of Study  2 Central Issues of This Study   2.1 The Choice of the Beverage and Its Social Meanings   2.2 Mobility and Unity   2.3 The Teascape and the Diffusion of Tea in the Context of Trade  3 Research Methodology  4 Organisation of the Book 1 The History of Tea in Mali  1 The History of Bamako’s Tea Market  2 Tea in Timbuktu in the Early Nineteenth Century  3 The Availability of Tea during French Colonial Time (1883–1960)  4 The Postcolonial Period (1960–1991) and Mali’s Tea Plantation   4.1 The Creation of the State-owned Tea Plantation in Farako   4.2 The SOMIEX (1962–1991) and the Government’s Attempts to Control Imports   4.3 Mali’s Tea Plantation Created an Awareness of Tea  5 The Tea Market after the 1991 Reforms   5.1 The Distribution Network of Tea Importers   5.2 Types of Green Tea on the Malian Market  6 Conclusion: Mali, a Centre of Tea Distribution 2 The Journey of Tea from China via Britain and Morocco to the Western Sahel  1 China’s Tea Production for Export  2 When Tea Met Coffee: Historical Coincidences   2.1 The Coffee Frontier   2.2 First Reports about Tea, the Portuguese Traders in Macau and Competition with Dutch and British Merchants   2.3 The Introduction of Green Tea to the English Court by Catherine of Braganza  3 The Rise of Tea in Morocco   3.1 The Arrival of Tea in the Sultan’s Palace   3.2 The Creation of Essaouira and the Sultan’s Traders   3.3 The Afriat Family: Tujar as-Sultan and Leading Tea Traders  4 The Caravan Trade from Wad Noun to Timbuktu   4.1 The Trade Route across the Sahara from Wad Noun to Timbuktu   4.2 Trade Networks across the Sahara and the Financing of Caravans  5 Tea in Morocco and the Sahara in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries   5.1 The Dissemination of Tea in Moroccan Society   5.2 British Competition in Tea Cultivation and Failed Attempts at Selling Black Tea in Morocco   5.3 Tea as a Medium of Political Persuasion, European Conquest and Colonial Intervention in Morocco and the Sahara   5.4 Tea during French Administration in Morocco   5.5 Tea in Northern Morocco in the Twentieth Century: Direct Imports from China  6 Conclusion: The Influence of Trade Routes and Politics on the Taste for Tea 3 The Tea Ritual, Its Spatiality and Complexity  1 Drinking Tea in China, Britain, and Morocco   1.1 Chinese Tea Drinking Rituals   1.2 Tea Rituals in Britain   1.3 The Moroccan Tea Ritual  2 The Tea Ritual and Its Associated Equipment in the Sahara and in Mali   2.1 The Tea Ritual of Nineteenth-Century Saharan Traders, Chiefs, and Nobles   2.2 Tea for the Caravan   2.3 The Tea Ritual in Nineteenth-Century Northern Mali   2.4 Functionaries and Elders Drinking Tea in Mali ( from the 1960s Onwards)   2.5 The Grins: Groups of Friends Taking Tea ( from the Mid-1980s Onwards)  3 The Ingredients of the Beverage   3.1 The Types of Tea Leaves Available   3.2 Water   3.3 Sugar   3.4 Milk   3.5 Herbs, Essential Oils, and Spices   3.6 Tea and Snacks  4 Spatiality, Enchantment, and Temporality of Tea Consumption   4.1 The Topography of Tea Consumption   4.2 The Tea Ritual’s Enchantment   4.3 The Preparation, the Froth, and the Sensuality of Tea   4.4 The Duration of the Tea Ritual   4.5 The Master of Ceremonies and Social Hierarchy  5 Conclusion: Continuity, Complexity and Change in the Tea Ritual 4 Malian Tea Equipment: History and Provenance  1 The Tea Equipment   1.1 The Teapots L   1.2 Bowls, Cups and Glasses   1.3 The Rise of the Tea Glasses   1.4 Metal Crafts   1.5 Metal Trays and Tea Sets   1.6 Stoves, Water Heaters and Samovars  2 Tea Sets from England and China: Models for the Moroccan (and Malian) Tea Equipment?   2.1 The British and Chinese Precursors of Moroccan Tea Sets  3 Genealogies and the Socio-Economic Importance of the Tea Equipment   3.1 Genealogies and Modifications of the Tea Equipment   3.2 Industries Emerging for the Production of Tea Equipment   3.3 The Tea Equipment as a Unit and Signifier of Social Status  4 Intersections of Tea Knowledge Transfer, Equipment, and Vocabulary   4.1 Pathways of Knowledge Transfer   4.2 The Dissemination of Tea Drinking in Mali   4.3 Knowledge Transfer and the Vocabulary of Tea Things  5 Conclusion: The Dissemination of Tea Culture 5 Ambivalent Meanings Attributed to Tea  1 From Medicine to a Luxury and a Drink for the People  2 Songs and Poems Mirroring Social Concerns and Tea’s Ambivalent Meanings   2.1 Poems and Proverbs Inspired by the Tea Equipment   2.2 Tea, Sex, and Women  3 Tea as a Mirror of the Social Condition: Politics and Religion, Critics and Advocates   3.1 Tea as a Mirror of the Social Condition in Mali   3.2 The Compatibility of Green Tea Consumption with Work   3.3 Tea, Grins, and Youth Unemployment   3.4 The Politicisation of Tea in Mali   3.5 Tea as Part of the Gift Economy  4 The Social Impact of Tea, Its National Importance, and the Items It Replaced   4.1 Tea as a Luxury or a Staple and the Nutrition Replacement Argument   4.2 Tea as a National Drink and Symbol of Identity  5 Conclusion: Tea as a National Symbol despite Criticism and Foreign Origin Conclusion: Tea, Mali’s National Drink  1 Diffusion, Globalisation, Trickle Down and Moving Up or On?  2 Complexity and Unity  3 Cultural Practices, ‘Drinkways’ and the Teascape  4 Complex Meanings of Green Tea and Tea Knowledge Transfer  5 Green Tea Remains the Dominant Drink Despite the Market Economy and Advertising References Index 258

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Book SynopsisIbn Ibrāhīm al-Dukkālī’s Historical Chronicle, edited and translated by Norman Cigar, is a valuable contemporary manuscript source from Morocco’s poorly documented and seldom-studied mid-eighteenth century, a period marked by weak rulers and conflicts, but also a golden age for local political actors and the autonomous power centers in the cities. As a well-placed observer and active participant in events in his native city of Fes, al-Dukkālī provides unique data that helps us address key questions about cities in the Muslim world raised in multiple disciplines, such as whether cities could be considered communities or were simply an agglomeration of disparate elements, and to what extent cities enjoyed autonomy in their relations with the central government, and in what sense they were “Islamic.”Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Author Biography Introduction Arabic Text and Translation Map Key/Maps Appendix on Weights, Measures, and Currency Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre within transoceanic exchanges of thoughts so characteristic of the Swahili coast.Table of ContentsForeword List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke Part 1 Poetry as Intellectual Practice Ustadh Mahmoud Mau, Mtu wa watu (“A Man of the People”): Poet, Imam, and Engaged Local Intellectual  Kai Kresse and Kadara Swaleh Shaping and Being Shaped by Lamu Society: Ustadh Mau’s Poetry in the Context of Swahili Poetic Practice  Jasmin Mahazi “Born on the Island”: Situating Ustadh Mau’s Poetic Practice in Context  Clarissa Vierke Seeking ʿilm on Lamu: Ustadh Mau’s Library and Services for the Benefit of His Community  Annachiara Raia How Ought We to Live? The Ethical and the Poetic in Ustadh Mahmoud Mau’s Poetry  Clarissa Vierke Mabanati in Search of an Author: Portable Reform Texts and Multimodal Narrative Media among Swahili Muslim Communities  Annachiara Raia Part 2 Poems by Ustadh Mau Introduction to Part 2 Jamii: Topical Issues on Lamu  1 Amu (“Lamu”)  2 Bandari ina mawimbi (“The Port Makes Waves”)  3 Jahazi (“The Dhow”)  4 Tupijeni makamama (“Let Us Embrace”) Ilimu: The Importance of Education  1 Mwalimu (“Teacher”)  2 Kilio huliya mwenye (“Change Begins at Home”)  3 Kiswahili (“Swahili”)  4 Za Washirazi athari (“The Influence of the Persians”) Huruma: Social Roles and Responsibility  1 Mama msimlaumu (“Don’t Blame My Mother”)  2 Jilbabu (“Veil”)  3 Mchezo Wa Kuigiza (“Play”)  4 Haki za watoto (“Children’s Rights”)  5 Wasiya wa mabanati (“Advice to Young Women”) Matukio: Biographical Poems  1 Hafi asiye timiwa (“No One Dies Before His Time Is Up”)  2 Mlango “The Door” Maombi: Personal Poems of Supplication  1 Hapo zamani za yana (“Once Upon A Time”)  2 Tunda (“Fruit”)  3 Kipande cha ini (“Piece of My Liver”)  4 Mola zidisha baraka (“God Increase Your Blessings”)  5 Yasome na kukumbuka (“Read and Remember”) References of Part 2 Index

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Book SynopsisSince the early nineteenth century, the things which Black South Africans have had in their homes have changed completely. They have adopted things like tables, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and saucers, iron pots, beds, blankets, European clothing, and later electronic apparatus. Thus they claimed modernity, respectability and political inclusion. This book is the first systematic analysis of this development. It argues that the desire to possess such goods formed a major part of the drive behind the anti-apartheid struggle, and that the demand to consume has significantly influenced both the economy and the politics of the country.

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Book SynopsisIn the 9th century, a secret sect of the Ismā‘īlīs -- known in the Middle Ages under the name of Fatimids -- arose to play a prominent role in the history of the Near East. Their supreme head today is the Agha Khan. In this mesmerising book, Heinz Halm describes the early history of the Fatimids, from the founding and spread of the secret society to the rise of the caliphal dynasty to power in North Africa and the founding of Cairo, their capital.Trade Review'Grammarians, linguists, Semiticists, Ethiopianists, students, and curious speakers of Amharic will be well and long served by this exemplary work. For advanced students of the language, it will become an indispensable tool.' Grover Hudson, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998. Good news: Heinz Halm's excellent outline of the early history of the Fāṭimids is now available in English...The impression that this volume, despite its high scholarly claim, almost appears like a 'best-seller', may be acknowledged with pleasure by everybody expecting from a book in the non-fictional area, in addition to new insights and an increase of knowledge, also a fair deal of literary entertainment. Sebastian Günther, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1998.

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explore how the Zimbabwean society and its institutions have survived if not succumbed to continuous economic crises in the country. From the 1990s Zimbabwe experienced a sustained economic decline challenged by both internal and external strains. Coupled with internal mis-governance and corruption, the nation plunged into a political and economic crisis which culminated in the second highest world inflation rate for an economy that is not at war. In the face of the harsh and continuously deteriorating economic environments, Zimbabweans as individuals as well as part of institutions adopted various strategies to negotiate and survive the economic scourge. Contributors include Wellington Bamu, Nathaniel Chimhete, Anusa Daimon, Innocent Dande, Sylvester Dombo, Tinotenda Dube, Rudo Gaidzanwa, Tafara Evelyn Kombora, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Bernard Kusena, Eric Kushinga Makombe, Albert Makochekanwa, Blessed Masawi, Ivo Mhike, Joseph P. Mtisi, Joseph Mujere, Wesley Mwatwara, Pius S. Nyambara, Tinashe Nyamunda, Mark Nyandoro, Takesure Taringana and Nicola Yon (Mutimurefu).Trade ReviewThe seemingly unending ‘Zimbabwean crisis’ has been a subject of conjecture, scholarly analysis and debate since the early twenty-first century. However, to date, no study has unpacked with such clarity and depth of analysis some of the multifaceted issues covered by this magnificent book. It is a tremendous contribution to the growing historiography on a subject that continues to exercise the minds of scholars, politicians, economists and citizens alike. A must-read for scholars, students and everyone with the welfare of Zimbabwe at heart. M. Nyakudya (lecturer, History Department, University of Zimbabwe)

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Zimbabwean literature brings together studies of both Rhodesian and Zimbabwean literature, spanning different languages and genres. It charts the at times painful process of the evolution of Rhodesian/ Zimbabwean identities that was shaped by pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial realities. The hybrid nature of the society emerges as different writers endeavour to make sense of their world. Two essays focus on the literature of the white settler. The first distils the essence of white settlers’ alienation from the Africa they purport to civilize, revealing the delusional fixations of the racist mindset that permeates the discourse of the “white man’s burden” in imperial narratives. The second takes up the theme of alienation found in settler discourse, showing how the collapse of the white supremacists’ dream when southern African countries gained independence left many settlers caught up in a profound identity crisis. Four essays are devoted to Ndebele writing. They focus on the praise poetry composed for kings Mzilikazi and Lobengula; the preponderance of historical themes in Ndebele literature; the dilemma that lies at the heart of the modern Ndebele identity; and the fossilized views on gender roles found in the works of leading Ndebele novelists, both female and male. The essays on English-language writing chart the predominantly negative view of women found in the fiction of Stanley Nyamfukudza, assess the destabilization of masculine identities in post-colonial Zimbabwe, evaluate the complex vision of life and “reality” in Charles Mungoshi’s short stories as exemplified in the tragic isolation of many of his protagonists, and explore Dambudzo Marechera’s obsession with isolated, threatened individuals in his hitherto generally neglected dramas. The development of Shona writing is surveyed in two articles: the first traces its development from its origins as a colonial educational tool to the more critical works of the post-1980 independence phase; the second turns the spotlight on written drama from 1968 when plays seemed divorced from the everyday realities of people’s lives to more recent work which engages with corruption and the perversion of the moral order. The volume also includes an illuminating interview with Irene Staunton, the former publisher of Baobab Books and now of Weaver Press.Table of ContentsMbongeni Z. MALABA: Introduction Anthony CHENNELLS: Great Zimbabwe in Rhodesian Fiction John MCALLISTER: Knowing Native, Going Native: – Cognitive Borderlines and the Sense of Belonging in Doris Lessing’s African Laughter and Dan Jacobson’s The Electronic Elephant Bevelyn DUBE: Representing the Past in the Present: – The Timelessness of the Ndebele Royal Praises Alena RETTOVÁ: Inkos’ uLobengula yasinyamalala: – The Attitude to Tradition in Ndebele Theoretical Writing Samukele HADEBE: The Significance of Ndebele Historical Fiction Tommy MATSHAKAYILE–NDLOVU: The Changing Roles of Women in siNdebele Literature Mbongeni Z. MALABA: The Portrayal of Women in Stanley Nyamfukudza’s Works Patricia ALDEN: Coming Unstuck: – Masculine Identities in Postcolonial Zimbabwean Fiction Owen S. SEDA: The Fourth Dimension: Dambudzo Marechera as a Dramatist – An Analysis of Two Plays Emmanuel M. CHIWOME: Modern Shona Literature as a Site of Struggle 1956–2000 Kennedy CHINYOWA: From a “Puny Domesticity” to Topical Commitment: – Trends in the Development of Shona Written Drama Since 1968 Rosemary GRAY: “Spirit of Place”: – Mungoshi’s Rolling World Virginia PHIRI: The Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) Annelie KLOTHER: “You need to have the idea, the vision, and the passion”: – An Interview with Irene Staunton Geoffrey V. DAVIS: Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera: – On the Occasion of the Award of the LiBeratur Prize For Her Novel Butterfly Burning in German Translation Under the Title Schmetterling in Flammen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 October 2002 Book Reviews by Meg SAMUELSON and Christine MATZKE Notes on Contributors and Editors Notes for Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.Trade Review"Ce premier volume consacré à l’engagement en littérature est captivant. Il propose un aperçu global de l’évolution de la littérature sud-africaine produite pendant l’apartheid et après." – Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of SwazilandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Memory Trip. Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical Africa, My Africa Holger Ehling: Publishing in Africa: An Overview Brian Crow: Charisma and Leadership in African Drama Jürgen Martini: The Little White Ship Elmar Lehmann: “The Fateful 13”: Sol Plaatje and the Natives’ Land Act Andrew Martin: Come Back, Dennis Brutus! Geoffrey Davis and the Rediscovery of Apartheid-Era South African Literature Jamie S. Scott: Space, Time, Solitude: The Liberating Contradictions of Ruth First’s 117 Days Anne Fuchs: Njabulo Ndebele: From Rediscovering the ‘Ordinary’ to Redefining South African ‘Renaissance’ Brian Worsfold: To Every Miracle Its Gods: Mongane Wally Serote’s Gods of Our Time as a Post-Apartheid Perception of Black Experience Christine Matzke: Girls with Guts: Writing a South African Thriller: Angela Makholwa in Conversation Marcia Blumberg: The Politics of Hope: Engaging Lara Foot Newton’s Tshepang: The Third Testament John A Stotesbury: Rayda Jacobs’s Confessions of a Gambler as Post-Apartheid Cinema Mbongeni Malaba: Exile and Return in Kavevangua Kahengua’s Dreams M. J. Daymond: Making a ‘Home’ Elsewhere: The Letters of Bessie Head, 1963–1974 James Gibbs: The Portrait of the Artist as a Younger Traveller: A Reader’s Response to Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn Shirley Chew: Putting Freedom to the Test: Wole Soyinka’s You Must Set Forth at Dawn Bernth Lindfors: The Lion and the Jewel on BBC Radio: An Audience Survey Stella Borg Barthet: The Politics of Myth in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Christiane Schlote: Oil, Masquerades, and Memory: Sokari Douglas Camp’s Memorial of Ken Saro–Wiwa Monika Reif–Hülser: Ways of Transition: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Controversial Strategies for Dealing with Past Violence in Societies in Transition Frank Schulze–Engler: Freedom vs. Anticolonialism in Zimbabwe: Subversions of the ‘Third Chimurenga’ Myth in African Literature Gareth Griffiths: Narrative, Identity and Social Practice in Tanzania: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Ironic Paradise Jane Plastow: Finding Children’s Voices: Using Theatre to Critique the Education System in England and Eritrea What It’s All About Richard Martin: Three poems for Geoff from around the world Jacques Alvarez-Péreyre: Les revenants/They are back! Stephen Gray: Interview with the Last Speaker Karen King–Aribisala: The Nature of Tragedy Jürgen Jansen: he made it – very much his story Peter Stummer: Stock-Taking in the Guise of Some Semantic Gymnastics: A raw poem for Geoff, in honour of Hena and Anna Coda Hamish Walker and Michael Senior: A Personal Dedication to Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis, or, a socialite gentleman scholar, cosmopolitan workaholic, connoisseur of fine books, films, wines, beers, and spirits Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisBesides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera. The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, two contributions on Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and three studies of the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akans of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa. Contributors: Jude Aigbe Agho, Nasima Ali, Uchenna Bethrand Anih, Aboneh Ashagrie, Francis T. Cheo, Gordon Collier, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Geoffrey V. Davis, Nozizwe Dhlamini, Kola Eke, Phyllis Forster, Frances Hardie, James Hlongwana, Pede Hollist, John M. Kobia, Samuelson Freddie Khunou, Mea Lashbrooke, María J. López, Brian Macaskill, Evans Mandova, Richard Sgadreck Maposa, Michael Mazuru, Corwin L. Mhlahlo. Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize, Kobus Moolman, Thamsanqa Moyo, Felix M. Muchomba, Collins Kenga Mumbo, Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, Bhekezakhe Ncube, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Ode S. Ogede, H. Oby Okolocha, Wumi Raji, Dosia Reichhardt, Rashi Rohatgi, Kamal Salhi, Ekremah Shehab, Faith Sibanda, John A Stotesbury, Nick Mdika Tembo, Kenneth Usongo, Wellington Wasosa.Trade Review"Der Band enthält Informationen zu den Beiträgern und ist für alle an Afrika interessierten Leser zu empfehlen. " – Till Kinzel, QUELLETable of ContentsLiterature: General Kola Eke: Responses to Patriarchy in African Women’s Poetry Francis T. Cheo: A Mirror of Convergence: Association and Racism in Anglophone Cameroonian Literature Thamsanqa Moyo, Faith Sibanda, and Michael Mazuru: Angles of Telling and Angles on Reality: Representations of the Gukurahundi Period in Selected Zimbabwean Fiction in Shona, Ndebele, and English Literature: Individual Authors Jude Aigbe Agho: Class Conflict and the Rise of the ‘Proletarian’ Novel in Africa Nick Mdika Tembo: History, Religion, and the Dramaturgy of Victimization and Betrayal: Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngũgĩ wa Mirii’s I Will Marry When I Want Kenneth Usongo: Resisting Oppression: I Will Marry When I Want and the (Re)Writing of History Corwin L. Mhlahlo: Advocating a Nameable Desire: Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name Uchenna Bethrand Anih: A Womanist Reading of Douceurs du bercail by Aminata Sow Fall Rashi Rohatgi: Postcolonial Hindi Translation in Mauritius: The Case of Kalpana Lalji’s Amargeet Brian Macaskill: Entr’acte: Cannibalism, Semiophagy, and the Plunk-Plink-Plonk of Banjo Strings in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Abdel Karim Daragmeh and Ekremah Shehab: Signs Tell Their Own Stories: Rethinking the Status of Writing and Speech in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe Creative Writing Pede Hollist: Resettlement Showcase South Africa Dosia Reichardt: Introduction Kobus Moolman: What He Did/One Version of the Road Mea Lashbrooke: letter to sacred ibis Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize: The long walk home Frances Hardie: To Whom It May Concern/Pipe Dream Nasima Ali: Uprooted H. Oby Okolocha: BlackBerry Tabitha Wanja Mwangi: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall Felix M. Muchomba: On the Road to Change African Societies and Cultural Expression Phyllis Forster: Traditional Mourning Dress of the Akans of Ghana Samuelson Freddie Khunou: The Origin and Nature of Traditional Leadership in South Africa: A Precolonial Perspective James Hlongwana, R.S. Maposa, and Thamsanqa Moyo: Sithole, Nkomo, Muzorewa, and the Birth of Zimbabwe: A Reconsideration of Autobiography as a Literary Mode of National History Thamsanqa Moyo, Bhekezakhe Ncube, and Nozizwe Dhlamini: Peace, Conflict Management, and the Ndebele Proverb Evans Mandova: The Shona Proverb as an Expression of Unhu/Ubuntu Wellington Wasosa and Evans Mandova: The Role of Proverbs in the Shona Judicial System with Special Reference to Nhango Dzokusuma Nyaya Padare Collins Kenga Mumbo: Artistic Techniques of Expression in the Performance of the Mijikenda Naming Ceremony Vyalusa of Kenya John M. Kobia: Gender Roles in African Oral Literature: A Case Study of Initiation Songs Among the Igembe People of Meru of Kenya Kamal Salhi: Recontextualizing and Reconfiguring Cultural Identity in Contemporary North Africa Aboneh Ashagrie: African Cinema: The 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, 7–14 November 2011 Wumi Raji: The Amphibian’s Dilemma: An Interview with TIJAN M. SALLAH Reviews Gordon Collier: Reference Galore Ode Ogede: Crossing Cultures Ode Ogede: Teaching the African Novel Geoffrey V. Davis: Swimming Against the Tide Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: East Africa Reclaimed Geoffrey V. Davis: “Urging Readers to Know the Books Written Earlier” John A Stotesbury: A Remarkably Rich History María J . López: A Different Southern Africa Books Received Notes on Contributors Notes for Contributors

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Book SynopsisPentecostalism has traditionally always been other-worldly in the sense that Pentecostals tend to believe that people’s lives are controlled by unseen powers that are responsible for both good and bad. This makes people look for a power that is stronger than those of evil and can ensure that believers enjoy good health and prosperity. Pentecostals find this power in Jesus Christ, who is victorious over all evil powers, and therefore pray that Jesus will save them. For them, life is characterised by suffering and evil, but in Christ they are conquerors, and life is full of concrete blessings. Using songs and sermons, this book shows the main widespread beliefs of the leadership and grassroots members of the Church of Pentecost (Ghanaian Pentecostals) on Christology and evil. It discusses their fear of evil and their finding solace in the power of Jesus. The author supplements this attitude by the biblical calling to help build a just and peaceful society. He thus develops a theology of the public domain in which the church can make a difference by developing its diaconal services, establishing more educational institutions, and helping—together with people who want to collaborate—build a just and more affluent society with good healthcare and a literate and thriving population. This book balances on the interface between traditional African religious ideas and practices and Christian ideals for a more humane society.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Why Study Christology and Evil in Ghanaian Pentecostalism? Motivation and Objective Description and Complexities of the Journey Method Role of the Researcher Problems/Limitations of this Study Content of the Chapters The Nature, Person, and Work of Jesus Christ Introduction Christ, Evil, and Suffering in the Ghanaian Pentecostal Liturgy Akan Traditional Religion and Culture and the Jesus Story Christ, Evil and Suffering in the New Testament Christological Subversions Contextual Issues Believers are Victorious in Christ Conclusion The World as a Place of Evil and Suffering Introduction The Nature and Phenomena of Evil and Suffering Causes of Evil and Suffering: Ghanaian Pentecostalism vis‐à‐vis Akan Traditional Religion Evil and Suffering in the Bible A Holistic Contextual Approach? Conclusion The Battles of Life: Implementing Christ’s Victory over Evil and Suffering Introduction Victory over Life’s Battles Sources of Victory and Freedom in Christ Sources of Victory and Freedom in Ghanaian Pentecostalism and Akan Traditional Religion Overcoming the Battles of Life in the Bible Inadequate Contextualisation in “Witchdemonology”? Conclusion The Good God and the Good Life Introduction Ideas about the Good God and the Good Life Akan Traditional Views of the Good God and the Good Life Biblical Ideas about God’s Goodness and the Good Life Ghanaian Pentecostals Struggling with Evil and Suffering Conclusion Ghanaian Pentecostal Christology and Public Theology Introduction The Tasks of the State The Tasks of the Church in Society How Pentecostals Can Improve Church‐State Relations Conclusion Summary and Conclusions Introduction Summary of the Chapters Reflections and Observations A Christology of Power Unsettled Christology Concluding Remarks Sources for the Empirical Data Bibliography Annex: Ghanaian Pentecostal Songs in Akan and English Appendices Index of Authors Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisDrama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, aims “to enhance the capacity of young people, theatre practitioners and their communities to take responsibility for the quality of their lives in the context of HIV and AIDS in Africa. We achieve this through participatory and experiential drama and theatre that is appropriate to current social realities but draws on the rich indigenous knowledge of African communities.” Collected here is a representative set of research essays written to facilitate dialogue across disciplines on the role of drama and theatre in HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and rehabilitation. Reflections are offered on present praxis and the media, as well as on innovative research approaches in an interdisciplinary paradigm, along with HIV/AIDS education via performance poetry and other experimental methods such as participant-led workshops. Topics include: the call for a move away from the binaries of much critical pedagogy; a project, undertaken in Ghana and Malawi with people living with AIDS, to create and present theatre; the contradictions between global and local expectations of applied drama and theatre methodology, in relation to folk media, participation, and syncretism. Three case studies report on mapping as a creative device for playmaking; the methodology of Themba Interactive Theatre; and applying drama with women living with HIV in the Zandspruit Informal Settlement. The essays validate the importance of play in both energizing those in positions of hopelessness and enabling the distancing essential to observe one’s situation and enable change. The book stimulates the ongoing investigation of current practice and extends an invitation to further develop innovative approaches.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Setting the Scene Patrick Mangeni: Negotiating the Space: Challenges for Applied-Theatre Praxis with Local Non-Governmental/Community-Based Organizations in HIV/AIDS Contexts in Uganda David Kerr: HIV Communication: Global Emergencies, Media Templates, and African Communities (A Personal Journey) Innovations in Research Approaches Emelda Ngufor Samba: Appreciative Inquiry – An Alternative Approach to Applied Theatre Gordon Bilbrough: After the Curtain – Reframed: Using Action Research to Reflect, Monitor, and Evaluate the Applied-Theatre Experience Rebecca Ann Rugg: Collaboration as Research: Yale University, Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre, Clowns Without Borders South Africa, and People’s Educational Theatre Swaziland Nehemiah Chivandikwa: Participatory Theatre for Development as Action Research: Methodological, Theoretical and Ethical Challenges, Tensions and Possibilities with Specific Reference to an HIV/AIDS and Disability Project (2007–2010) Innovations in HIV/AIDS Awareness Education Diana Wilson and Karen Suter: The Lover and Another: A Consideration of the Efficacy of Utilizing a Performance Poetry Competition as Vehicle for HIV/AIDS Education Among Young Adults Selloane Mokuku: Do, Be, Do: Insights from ‘Rapid Cognition’ in a Theatre-Making Process Johannes Visser: Space and Involvement – Theatre in (a) South African Prison Innovations in Research Practice/Theory Alexandra Sutherland: Dramatic Spaces in Patriarchal Contexts: Constructions and Disruptions of Gender in Theatre Interventions About HIV Galia Boneh: This Is My Story: A Model for Creating Performance Engaging Artists and People Living with HIV/AIDS Kennedy Chinyowa: A Poetic of Contradictions? HIV/AIDS Interventions at the Crossroads of Localization and Globalization Jamie Lachman: Project Njabulo: Using Storytelling, Drama, and Play Therapy for Psycho-Social Interventions in Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa – Pathways to Empathetic Locally Sustainable Care Innovative Case Studies Myer Taub: Dramatic Beading Remo Chipatiso: Evaluation of Applied Drama and Theatre in HIV/AIDS Interventions: A Case Study of Themba Interactive Tendai Mtukwa: Theatre as Border-Crossing Among Women Living with HIV: A Case Study of Zandspruit Informal Settlement Notes on Contributors Onomastic Index Notes for Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis second volume of research emanating from Drama for Life, University of the Witwatersrand, explores the transformative and healing qualities of the arts in South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Essays on arts for social change illuminate the difficulties of conflict-resolution (in war-scarred countries, tertiary institutions, and child-offender programmes) to promote broader understanding of diversity and difference. Further essays focus on arts and healing, in which music therapy diagnoses, repairs, sustains, and enhances collective health. Intervention theatre – in prisons, fieldwork, and the ethics and politics of storytelling – is examined as a basis for collaboration with children and youth. The musical theatre traditions of Botswana’s San people are investigated, as well as the benefits of arts counselling with educators to alleviate psycho-social stress in classrooms. Important insights are provided into ways of applying the arts and raise questions of ethics, effectiveness, and apposite usage. Also treated is the role of aesthetics in the effectiveness of art, particularly in social contexts. Included are overviews of the ways in which the aesthetics of drama have changed over the past four decades and of the cohesive potential of the arts. How can arts practitioners engage in inter-cultural dialogue to facilitate healing? The energy and inventiveness of the playful mode engender new ways of contending with social issues, whereby the focus is on how theatre affects an audience and on how communication in applied theatre and drama can reach audiences more effectively. These essays provide an insight into the application of the arts for transformation across Africa. Through their juxtaposition in this volume they speak to the variety and purposes of arts approaches and offer fresh perspectives on and to the field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction Arts For Social Change Kim Berman: Imagination and Agency: Facilitating Social Change through the Visual Arts Owen Seda And Nehemiah Chivandikwa: Theatre in Combat with Violence: The University of Zimbabwe Department of Theatre Arts and Amani Trust Popular Travelling Theatre Project on Political Violence and Torture – Some Basic and Non-Basic Contradictions Théogène Niwenshuti: Dance as a Communication Tool: Addressing Inter-Generational Trauma for a Healthier Psycho-Social Environment in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of Africa Kennedy Chinyowa: Exploring Conflict Management Strategies through Applied Drama: A Wits University Case Study Kristy Errington, Sheri Errington, Helen Oosthuizen and Ntombifuthi Sangweni: Dancing Drumming and Drawing the Unspeakable: An Exploration of an Arts-Based Programme as Complementary Interventions in the Diversion of Youth Sex Offenders Arts, Africa, And Healing Mercédès Pavlicevic: Music, Musicality, and Musicking: Between Therapy and Everyday Life Christopher John: Catharsis and Critical Reflection in IsiZulu Prison Theatre: A Case Study from Westville Correctional Facility in Durban Christopher Odhiambo: In Between Activism and Education: Intervention Theatre in Kenya Sara Matchett and Makgathi Mokwena: Washa Mollo: Theatre as a Milieu for Conversations and Healing Petro Janse van Vuuren: The Keep Them Safe 2010 Project: Using Story to Structure a Programme with Sustainable Impact for 7,000 Children Leigh Nudelman: Elephant in the Theatre: The Ethics and Politics of Narration in an International Collaboration Michelle Booth: Supporting Educators to Support Learners: An Art Counselling Intervention with Educators conni e rapoo: Performing Cultural Memory and the Symbolic: The Musical Theatre Traditions of the Basarwa in the Ghanzi District, Botswana Myer Taub: Christine’s Room: Re/Voicing the Document Arts And Aesthetics Lynn Dalrymple: Applied Art Is Still Art, and By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet Emelda Ngofur Samba: Dramatic Art at the Frontiers of Ontology: Reconsidering Aesthetics Veronica Baxter: Postcards on the Aesthetic of Hope in Applied Theatre Emma Durden: Researching the Theatricality and Aesthetics of Applied Theatre Notes on Contributors Onomastic Index Notes for Contributors

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