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Viella Editrice Una Storia Violenta: Potere E Conflitti Nel
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Terra Santa Kushari
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Edizioni Terra Santa Etiopia: Arte, Storia, Curiosita E Itinerari Nel
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Paolo Valera E l'Opposizione Democratica
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Cirene E I Libyi
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Great Civilisations of the Ancient Sahara:
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Five Continents Editions Headrests of Southern Africa: The architecture of
Book SynopsisHeadrests from Southern Africa - The architecture of sleep presents the subject of southern African headrests in a fascinating new light. The book, richly illustrated – often with in situ photographs, offers unique historical and personal information collected from many of the original owners and carvers of the headrests. So, for the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information and the stories of their creation, ownership, use and significance. The 438 headrests from the collections of Bruce Goodall from Cape Town and Frédéric Zimer from Paris are presented according to 3 geographical areas: KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo (where the Ntwane people live) and Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Since 2003, Goodall has made numerous field trips collecting, as well as interviewing and photographing the owners and carvers of headrests. In 2017, Goodall’s collection grew substantially with the purchase of a comprehensive collection of headrests from the Msinga area of KwaZulu-Natal. This collection had been assembled and meticulously documented by the late Anglican priest Clive Newman and his friend and assistant, Mavis Duma, between the late 1980s and the mid-2000s. The Zimer collection has been built up since the 1990s through his many travels in Africa, and his acquisitions from collectors and African art dealers around the world. This publication not only offers insight into the personal and historical dimensions of this important southern African tradition through the text written about the headrests and their owners by Bruce Goodall, but includes essays by Newman, Nel and Leibhammer and a text about collecting by Duma. Together these facilitate a penetrating understanding of these valued items as well as a respectful appreciation of the cultures and individuals who made and used them.Table of Contents7 Foreword Bruce Goodall 11 Preface Frédéric Zimer 13 Introduction Sandra Dodson 17 Zulu Headrests of the Msinga District in KwaZulu-Natal Clive Newman 23 Climbing Mountains and Crossing Rivers Mavis Duma 27 The Architecture of Sleep: The Significance of Headrests Karel Nel 41 From Generic to Specific: Locating Headrests in History Nessa Leibhammer 60 Map 63 The KwaZulu-Natal Region Bruce Goodall [65] Northern Msinga - Including Pomeroy [129] Southern Msinga - Including Muden [189] West of Msinga [253] Bergville and Surrounding Regions [281] Nongoma and Surrounding Regions [297] Early Collected Headrests 311 Eswatini and Outlying Areas Bruce Goodall 377 The Limpopo Region Bruce Goodall 430 Notes 432 Bibliography 434 Glossary 436 Biographies
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Provincia Africa: Le Citta E Il Territorio Dalla
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider A Gazetteer of Cyrene Necropolis: From the
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Praeteritae Carmina Vitae: Pietre E Parole Di
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Antica Africa: Alle Origini Delle Societa
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European Press Academic Publishing African Cinema and Europe: Close-up on Burkina Faso
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Arquitectura Militar del Castellum de Tamuda:
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider In Egitto E Terrasanta: Note E Osservazioni
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Quaderni Di Archeologia Della Libya. N. 23, N.S.
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Brill Augustine’s Cyprian: Authority in Roman Africa
Book SynopsisIn Augustine’s Cyprian Matthew Gaumer retraces how Augustine of Hippo devised the ultimate strategy to suppress Donatist Christianity, an indigenous form of the religion in ancient North Africa. Spanning nearly forty years, Augustine’s entire clerical career was spent combating the Donatists and seeking the dominance of the Catholic Church in North Africa. Through a variety of approaches Augustine evolved a method to successfully outlaw and deconstruct the Donatist Church’s organisation. This hinged on concerted preaching, tract writing, integrating Roman imperial authorities, and critically: by denying the Donatists’ exclusive claim to Cyprian of Carthage. Re-appropriation of Cyprian’s authority required Augustine and his allies to re-write history and pose positions contrary to Cyprian’s. In the end, Cyprian was the Donatists’ no longer.Trade Review"This is a compellingly interesting study, well executed and raising new questions for the Augustine-Cyprian relations." - Allen Brent, King’s College, London, in: Church History and Religious Culture 98:1 (2018), pp. 139-141.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Timelines Introduction Part 1 Augustine’s Early Years as a Church Leader and Initial Reactions to Donatist Christianity Augustine’s First Years of Ministry, the 390s The Need for an Auctoritas, Why Did Augustine Need Cyprian? The Election of Primian and Its Polemical Consequences, Mid 390s Part 2 The Maturation of the Anti-Donatist Campaign De Baptismo and the Controversy’s Escalation, 400–01 The Process of Appropriation Sustaining Appropriation Part 3 Augustine’s Cyprian in the Pelagian Controversy The Cyprian-Appropriation in the Anti-Pelagian Campaigns General Conclusions Bibliography Index
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Brill The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors
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Peeters Publishers Du Miel au Cafe, de L'ivoire a L'acajou
Book SynopsisPeuple legendaire, les pygmees ont longtemps ete percus comme confines dans un cocon forestier et traversant les siecles en marge de l'Histoire. L'etude des chasseurs-collecteurs Aka d'Afrique centrale montre a quel point cette societe est en fait inseree de longue date dans un vaste complexe socioculturel et economique regional. Cet ouvrage analyse les relations entretenues par les Aka avec un ensemble de populations aux economies diversifiees et permet de mieux saisir des processus d'anthropisation de la foret equatoriale. Mais il ouvre aussi sur un cadre bien plus large avec la prise en consideration de la traite atlantique et de la penetration europeenne au coeur du bassin congolais. C'est ainsi que ce travail eclaire l'histoire meconnue de l'epoque coloniale dans l'immense interfluve Sangha-Oubangui (compagnies concessionnaires, conquete militaire, expansion de la maladie du sommeil, etc.) et l'evolution sociale et economique de certaines regions jusque dans les annees 1980. Au terme d'un siecle de mutations, les Pygmees Aka, aureoles de representations archaiques, nous introduisent en realite au coeur d'enjeux tres contemporains lies au devenir des milieux forestiers tropicaux.
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Peeters Publishers Prosopographia Ptolemaica. Tome X: Foreign
Book SynopsisUnder the Ptolemies thousands of Greek-speaking foreigners were resident in Egypt: they were active in the armed forces, in the administration, in commerce. In official and notarial documents they are identified by their ethnic, i.e. their real or fictive origin outside Egypt. The present work provides a complete inventory of the ethnics, which refer to Greek city-states (e.g. 'Athenian', 'Syracusan'), but also to regions in Greece (e.g. 'Cretan', 'Thessalian') or elsewhere (e.g. 'Thracian', 'Jew'). The data are incorporated in the database of the "Prosopographia Ptolemaica" and offer a diversified view of the Greek presence in Egypt between 323 and 30 BC.
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Peeters Publishers Dictionnaire Kenga (Tchad)
Book SynopsisLe kenga est parle au Tchad, aux alentours du massif du Guera, par une population de quelque 50 000 personnes. Il s'agit d'une langue soudanique centrale (famille nilo-saharienne), appartenant au groupe des langues sara. Le kenga n'etait jusqu'alors connu qu'a travers la grammaire de Charles Vandame (1968).Apres une breve introduction geographique et linguistique, le "Dictionnaire kenga" comporte une section principale kenga-francais, suivie d'un index francais-kenga. Il compte environ 3 700 entrees, illustrees de nombreux exemples.Precis et documente, cet ouvrage represente une contribution importante a la connaissance des nombreuses langues de cette region. Il s'adresse aux linguistes, aux africanistes et, plus particulierement, a tous ceux qu'interesse l'histoire des langues et des populations de l'Afrique centrale.
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Peeters Publishers Linguistique Et Ethnolinguistique. Anthologie
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage est un recueil d'une quarantaine d'articles publies de 1961 a 2003 dans diverses revues, actes de colloques et ouvrages collectifs. Il permet de mieux apprecier la diversite et la coherence d'une reflexion poursuivie sur pres d'un demi-siecle et toujours fort active. Les premiers articles concernent les langues "Plateau" (Nigeria septentrional). Suivent des contributions sur le sango (langue vehiculaire de RCA) et sur la phonologie descriptive ou comparee de divers parlers, principalement oubanguiens et bantous (sara, ngbaka, monzombo, gbanziri, kirundi, ngando, mbati). Plusieurs concernent des problemes de description: definition des classes de mots/parties du discours et des unites a prendre en compte a differents niveaux descriptifs suivant une methode originale appelee systemique dynamique; ils relevent de la linguistique generale. Enfin, une bonne moitie des contributions illustre des problemes d'ethnolinguistique envisagee comme interaction reciproque entre la langue et le monde exterieur, propre a un groupe social: systemes de numeration, instruments de musiques, noms de plantes et taxinomie ethnique de celles-ci, litterature orale, lexique thematique, ideologies particulieres. En annexe, une bibliographie complete des travaux permet de resituer articles et ouvrages les uns par rapport aux autres.
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Peeters Publishers Un Continuum Predicatif: Le Cas Du Gbanzili
Book SynopsisContinuum predicatif, car l'opposition entre verbe et nom, telle qu'elle a ete systematisee pour les langues indo-europeennes, est loin d'etre universelle. La perception d'une continuite peut etre beaucoup plus fructueuse dans l'analyse d'autres langues. L'ouvrage apportera aux linguistes le demonstration en trois temps d'un tel continuum (predication verbale reduite au minimum, predication para-verbale, predication non-verbale), precedee des considerations phonologiques, morphologiques et syntagmatiques necessaires. Les marqueurs de temps, mode et aspect sont independants des trois temps de la predication et sont donc traites separement. Il en va de meme de la negation et de l'interrogation. Le Gbanzili est une langue oubangienne parlee par des pecheurs riverains de l'Oubangui, en Republique Centrafricaine.
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Stichting Kunstboek BVBA Congo Revisited
Book SynopsisAngelo Turconi has spent fifty years roaming the Democratic Republic of Congo. This passionate, curious and compassionate photographer continues to this day to document the daily life of the Congolese, with a particular focus on their cultural heritage and artisanal and artistic traditions. His photographs capture the power of ancestral ceremonies and the joy of popular celebrations, presided over by the traditional chiefs who still occupy a prestigious position. They reveal the social structure of this central African community by observing the work of artisans, farmers, conveyors of goods (riding their impressive cargo bikes) and market traders. More than just a witness, Angelo Turconi calls himself an emissary of memory. It is the subject of memory that seems to haunt the pages of this book. By drawing on the power of customs that have not yet been dulled by globalisation, his photographs take us on a journey to a world apart: one that is recognisably contemporary and yet connected to references and traditions that seem to come from outside of our world. Text in English and French.
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Peeters Publishers British Administration and the Northern Sudan,
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Peeters Publishers Civil Calender and Lunar Calendar in Ancient
Book SynopsisThis investigation is concerned with ancient Egyptian calendars. Its specific focus is one of the oldest problems of the study of these calendars: the so-called problem of the month names. This work's main purpose is to suggest an explanation for the Brugsch phenomenon. The Brugsch phenomenon is one of the two main aspects of the problem of the month names. The other is the Gardiner phenomenon. No new theory is presented for the Gardiner phenomenon. As a problem, the Brugsch phenomenon is slightly older than the Gardiner Phenomenon. It has occupied center stage in the study of ancient Egyptian calendars since the early days of this endeavor. In 1870, Heinrich Brugsch, the great pioneer in this subject, wrote about the phenomenon, "Here we encounter all at once the most curious contradiction." Just recently, Rolf Krauss has described the contradiction as still "unsolved". The Brugsch phenomenon concerns the indisputable fact that the last or twelfth month of the Egyptian civil year can be named as if it were the first. Two month names are involved. The first is wp rnpt. Its meaning "opener of the year," refers to a beginning. The second month name is mswt r' "birth of Re" in hieroglyphic Egyptian, Mesore in Aramaic, Greek and Coptic. Both can otherwise also refer to New Year's Day, the quintessential calendrical beginning.
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Creighton Books The Great Tanganyika Diamond Hunt
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Leiden University Press Cape Conflict: Protest and Political Alliances in
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Leiden University Press Bureaucrats of Liberation: Southern African and
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The Nordic Africa Institute Crisis Management and the Politics of
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Lund University Press,Sweden Colonial Powers and Ethiopian Frontiers
Book SynopsisColonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880–1884 is the fourth volume of Acta Aethiopica, a series that presents original Ethiopian documents of nineteenth-century Ethiopian history with English translations and scholarly notes. The documents have been collected from dozens of archives in Africa and Europe to recover and present the Ethiopian voice in the history of Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. The present book, the first Acta Aethiopica volume to appear from Lund University Press, deals with how Ethiopian rulers related to colonial powers in their attempts to open Ethiopia for trade and technological development while preserving the integrity and independence of their country. In addition to the correspondence and treatises with the rulers and representatives of Italy, Egypt and Great Britain, the volume also presents letters dealing with ecclesiastical issues, including the Ethiopian community in Jerusalem.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198469974/9789198469974.xmlTrade Review'Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers represents the entirely successful continuation of an important project. Like its predecessors, it will be welcomed and closely studied by researchers, teachers, and students of Ethiopian history.'Jacob Wiebel, The Journal of African History -- .Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Seals Note on orthography GlossaryAbbreviationsList of the documents THE TEXTS18801881188218831884 Indices
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Zerzura Studios The Skin We Breathe: Poetry
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Alpha Edition The fall of the Congo Arabs
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Alpha Edition The Nandi, their language and folk-lore
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Alpha Edition The Akamba in British East Africa; an
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Double 9 Booksllp The New Jerusalem
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Double 9 Books Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Book SynopsisMissionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, authored by David Livingstone, is a captivating and influential travel narrative that documents the extraordinary journeys of the Scottish explorer and missionary across Southern Africa during the 19th century. Readers are compelled to continue reading to find out what happens next since the title character is so indulgent. Some stories are gruesome and bizarre, while others softly creep up on you and pull you in. David Livingstone's book chronicles his efforts to combine his missionary work with extensive explorations of the African continent. Through vivid descriptions and firsthand accounts, he shares his encounters with diverse African cultures, wildlife, and landscapes. Livingstone's exploration of the Zambezi River and his discovery of the Victoria Falls are among the notable highlights detailed in the book. Livingstone's narrative also delves into the harsh realities of the African slave trade and his dedication to ending this brutal practice. He provides insights into the challenges he faced, including navigating treacherous terrain and fostering relationships with local communities. The book captures Livingstone's deep respect for African cultures and his commitment to understanding and improving the lives of the people he encountered.
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Double9 Books Llp Principia of Ethnology the Origin of Races and
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Double 9 Books From the Cape to Cairo the First Traverse of
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KIT Publishers Common Ground: Dutch-South African Architectural
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Leuven University Press Religion, colonization and decolonization in
Book SynopsisReligion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries, the Marian shrines of the Catholic Church, the Islamic brotherhoods, and the Jewish community of Lubumbashi, to the 'African' churches of the Congolese diaspora in Brussels and Paris, the healers of Kimbanguism, the televangelism of the booming Pentecostalist churches in the great cities, the Orthodox communities of Kasai, and the 'invisible' Mai Mai warriors in the brousse of Kivu. During the colonial period religion was no less central to people's lives than it is today. More surprisingly, behind the seemingly smooth facade of missions linked closely to imperial power, also then faith and worship were marked by diversity and dynamism, tying the Congo into broader African and global movements. The contributions in this book provide insight into the multifaceted history of the interaction between religion and colonization. The authors focus on the institutional (including legal) political framework, examine the complex interaction between indigenous and 'imported' non-African religious beliefs and practices, and zoom in on the part religions played in the independence movement as well as on their reaction to independence itself. Contributors: Piet Clement (Bank of International Settlements), Bram Cleys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Anne Cornet (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren) Marie Dunkerley (Exeter University), Zana Aziza Etambala (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren), Anne-Sophie Gijs (Universit Catholique de Louvain), Miguel Bandeira Jer nimo (University of Coimbra), Emery Kalema Masua (University of the Witwatersrand), Sindani E. Kiangu (Universit de Kinshasa), Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford University) Dominic Pistor (Simon Fraser University), Jean-Luc Vellut (Universit Catholique de Louvain), Vincent ViaeneTrade ReviewAl vanaf de eerste bladzijde van de inleiding poneren zij immers dat ze vooral de verscheidenheid van de religieuze ervaringen ten tijde van kolonisatie en dekolonisatie tot hun recht willen laten komen. Daarmee nemen ze expliciet afstand van de te eenzijdige focus op missionering die de religieuze geschiedenis van koloniaal Congo tot dan had beheerst. Religie was er veel méér, zo betogen ze, dan de pogingen van katholieke (en in snel verminderende mate ook protestantse) missionarissen om hun geloof aan de Congolese bevolking op te dringen. [...] Dat deze verscheidenheid door de samenstellers van dit boek in de schijnwerpers wordt geplaatst, is vanzelfsprekend positief. Zoals ze het zelf verwoorden in hun inleiding: “The picture is one of vivid colours. It is not yet high definition, but it is no longer monochrome.” Marnix Beyen, Volkskunde 2021 - 1Hiermee zijn een aantal aspecten uit de geschiedenis van Congo aangesneden, maar die toch ook wel doen verlangen naar een nieuw standaardwerk over de rol van missionarissen en kerken vanaf de 19e eeuw tot de huidige Democratische Republiek Congo. Hoe de verschillende congregaties en ordes te werk gingen in de hun toegewezen gebieden, hoe de verhoudingen met de staatsinstellingen verliepen, hoe zich geleidelijk aan een inlandse clerus en kerk ontwikkelde, en welke rol de verschillende (christelijke) kerken en andere geloofsgemeenschappen vandaag spelen in dit onmetelijke land. Dekolonisatie betekent niet dat men eenvoudig weg de geschiedenis achter zich kan laten. Integendeel. De spanningsvelden die er in de huidige RDC zijn hebben hun historische wortels. Dit soort werken, zoals de bundel die nu voorligt, kunnen er toe bijdragen om niet alleen de politieke of sociale geschiedenis van het land te beschrijven, maar ook aandacht te hebben voor de belangrijke rol van religies, onder welke vorm dan ook.Herman Lodewyckx, Acta Comparanda, 2021L’ année 2010 est marquée par la commémoration du cinquantenaire de l’ indépendance de la République du Congo. Parmi les très nombreuses manifestations scientifiques qui prennent alors place, le KADOC organise un colloque international intitulé ‘Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo 1885-1960’. Celui-ci réunit une trentaine d’intervenants, historiens et hommes d’Église surtout, dont la plupart proviennent de Belgique, de la République démocratique du Congo ou des États-Unis. Les actes de cette rencontre internationale paraissent dix ans plus tard sous le titre bilingue ‘Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960.’ Bérengère PIRET, Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, LI, 2021, 3The book is engaging, enjoyable, and a high-quality product, with all chapters well written and capably edited. Students of the colonial encounter, and in particular of missionary action in Congo, will find rich references and numerous suggested avenues for future research.Matthew G. Stanard, TSEG, VOL. 18, NO. 2, 2021, https://tseg.nl/article/view/10788/12072, DOI: 10.52024/tseg10788Its three sections proceed, as the editors explain, from the political to the socio-cultural and personal order, yet, each section exemplifies the deep entanglements of these domains. The authors aim to put religious agency at centre stage, focusing on the cultural interface created by the missionary encounter. This approach highlights both the interplay between objectives and interests of consecutive colonial administrations, policies of Protestant and Catholic missionary organisations, practices of missionaries on the ground and mediation and appropriations by their converts: African Christians who became key players in carving out multiple meanings of religion in Congo.Marit Monteiro, SZRKG/RSHRC/RSSRC, 116 (2022), 403–506, DOI: 10.24894/2673-3641.00127[...] a worthwhile contribution to scholarship on Congo [...] hopefully it should help stimulate new research in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Congolese religious history.David Maxwell, The English Historical Review, 2022, ceac253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac253Table of ContentsIntroduction Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys and Jan De MaeyerIntroduction Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys et Jan De MaeyerRELIGIONS AND THE COLONIAL STATE / LES RELIGIONS ET L’ÉTAT COLONIAL Premières évangélisations de l’Afrique centrale et éthique sociale, 1500-1900. Entre morale de conviction et morale de responsabilité Jean-Luc VellutInternationalism, Religion and the Congo Question An introduction, 1875-1905 39 Vincent ViaeneReligion and Politics in the ‘Congo’. Portugal and the European inter-imperial competition, c. 1865-1890 Miguel Bandeira JerónimoLes droits des autochtones. Un enjeu dans les relations jésuites-État, fin XIXe-début XXe siècle Anne-Sophie GijsCatholic Missionaries and the Production of Kasai as a Colonial Landscape, 1890-1960 Bram CleysINTERMEDIARIES / INTERMÉDIAIRES Musique et univers sonores dans le champ missionnaire des Grands Lacs. Perception, emprunts et transferts au Kivu, Rwanda et Burundi, 1908-1940 Anne CornetHome is where the Heart is? Debates between missions and colonial administrators over accommodation for Congolese students at the École Unique des Assistants Médicaux Indigènes, Léopoldville, 1929-1946 Marie BryceReligion et médecine au Congo Belge. Pratiques et savoirs des 1assistants médicaux «indigènes» issus de Kisantu (Fomulac) et de leurs patients, 1937-1961 Emery M. KalemaVivre (à) la Mission. Mémoires individuelles, histoire collective Elisabeth Mudimbe-BoyiTHE CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL MISSIONS / LA CRISE DES MISSIONS COLONIALESTempels Revisited. The conversion of a missionary in the Belgian Congo, 1930s-1960s Piet ClementDevelopmental Colonialism and Kitawala Policy in 1950s Belgian Congo Dominic PistorLes missions catholiques et les émeutes de Léopoldville, 4 janvier 1959 Zana EtambalaLe mouvement muleliste comme théorie et pratique religieuses en diocèse d’Idiofa (Province du Kwilu, R.D.C.) Sindani E. KianguIndex Authors / Auteurs Colophon
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Leuven University Press The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary: Photography between France and Africa, 1900-1939
Book Synopsis"It was very difficult to find a way of writing about the different perspectives of France and Africa, of Africans in France and the French in Africa.", Simon DellUnique study of portraiture in the colonial imaginaryFrench colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greater France. In this book Simon Dell explores the various roles played by portraiture in this colonial imaginary.Anyone interested in the history of colonial Africa will have encountered innumerable portraits of African elites produced during the first half of the twentieth century, yet no book to date has focused on these ubiquitous images. Dell analyses the production and dissemination of such portraits and situates them in a complex and conflicted field of representations.Moving between European and African perspectives, The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary blends history with art history to provide insights into the larger processes that were transforming the French metropole and colonies during the early twentieth century.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade Review... un livre très fouillé du professeur Simon Dell sur cinq séries de portraits photographiques entre France et Afrique (principalement le Cameroun) entre 1900 et 1939 [...] Pour chaque série, l’auteur fait une analyse argumentée, très détaillée, quasi « entomologique », des écrits et des images, naviguant entre théorie de philosophie politique et analyse iconographique détaillée. Marc Lenot, 31 Août 2020, Lunettes RougesSituating his study within the move to take art history beyond Eurocentrism and into the field of world art studies, Simon Dell works persuasively across historiography, literary criticism, and, centrally, visual analysis. Drawing inspiration from Levinas’s reflection on the ethics of encounter, he foregrounds the place of the photographic medium, both in the construction of the colonial narrative and as appropriated or resisted by African leaders contending with imperial hegemony. Dell explains how its European provenance meant that the photographic portrait was never a neutral medium in the colonial context. [...] Throughout this important book, Dell’s deft, studied sequencing of visual material provides illuminating points of access to a wider historical narrative.Edward J Hughes, French Studies, December 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knaa243Jeder, der sich für die Kulturgeschichte der europäischen Kolonisation interessiert, wird dieses Buch mit Gewinn lesen.Matthias Waechter, Historische Zeitschrift, 2021, Volume 312 Issue 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2021-1063Dell offers a new and very useful analysis of the complicated interrelationship between France, African colonies, and photography during the years between 1900 and 1930—a moment when the “French empire” was at its strongest. Most importantly, he recognizes that there are many kinds of colonizing gazes, and he analyzes in depth three case studies to tease out the differences. Kim Sichel, The Journal of Modern History 2023 95:2, 474-475, https://doi.org/10.1086/724605Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Making men Citizens and subjectsA new humanity The Republican imaginary and the colonial imaginary The colonial imaginary renewed Portraits, points of view, and representation Portraits and subjectivities 2. Perception, apperception and disavowal André Gide and Marc Allégret in the CongoGide’s queer disposition Allégret’s apprenticeships Perceiving the African The heart of things Difference and differentiation Resistance and accommodation Allégret’s editions Missionary perceptions Civilisation, portraiture and contingency 1 3. Staging, actors and audiences The Exposition coloniale internationale in ParisLyautey’s project Time, portrait, patriarchy Structures of resistance and the limits of opposition Shame Roger Parry’s third space The burden of civilisation 4. Performance, appropriation and dispossession King Ibrahim Njoya and Mosé Yeyap in the Cameroon GrassfieldsExtraversion and representation Njoya’s appropriations The making of Yeyap The palace and the museum Exhibition, alienation and dispossession The uses of the image of Njoya Yeyap’s arts in France Epilogue Charles Atangana between Africa and FranceNotes Sources Illustration Credits Index
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Leuven University Press Building a White Nation: Propaganda, Photography,
Book SynopsisA unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate White rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photographic production and how it was tightly linked to the objective to build a White nation. Through scrutiny of the photographic material’s iconographies, its circulation in printed matters, and a comparison with works by photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Ernest Cole, and David Goldblatt, readers gain fresh insight into the country’s visual culture of the period. Based on the ambiguity of photographs, the monograph challenges the alleged dichotomy between so-called pro- and anti-apartheid photographies, highlighting how the regime was able to position photographs in the grey area of inconspicuousness.By blending photo theory and art historical analysis with historical studies, Building a White Nation will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in cultural studies interested in photo history and theory, visual culture and art history, African studies, South African photography, Afrikaner nationalism, propaganda studies, postcolonial studies, and archive theory.Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewThis is an important piece of research on a topic that has, ironically, been neglected in recent histories of South African photography. The author’s engagement with the topic brings a sense of complexity to a series of influencing factors that could otherwise have been very simplistically treated. Instead, the author has sought to bring a sense of complexity to an argument about the intersection of photography, propaganda, and apartheid state making. Rory Bester, University of the Western CapeThis book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on photography and propaganda, African and specifically apartheid visual cultures, and ideas of nation and whiteness. It provides a detailed and multifaceted case study of the information service through from the founding of the apartheid regime through until the mid-1970s. In a context where there is a deepening of photo-historical research on African photographies, by state and non-state actors, this study fits well with current work in the field.Darren Newbury, The University of BrightonTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSNOTES ON TERMINOLOGY AND FIGURESINTRODUCTION White Nation-building and the Myths of Afrikaner Nationalism Propaganda and Photography Researching Propaganda Photography and the State of the ArchivesI. SOUTH AFRICA’S INFORMATION SERVICE I.1. The Information Service and Photography I.2. Publications I.3. Actors in the Propaganda MachineryII. CELEBRATING THE WHITE NATION II.1. The Inauguration of the Voortrekker Monument, 1949 II.2. ‘We Build a Nation’: The Jan van Riebeeck Festival, 1952III. H. F. VERWOERD: ‘MASTER-BUILDER’ OF THE WHITE NATION III.1. From Minister of Native Affairs to Prime Minister III.2. The Pivotal Year 1960 III.3. The Verwoerd Couple III.4. Statesman III.5. Pictorial AfterlifeIV. PROPAGATING SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT IV.1. Bantu Education IV.2. The Health Care System IV.3. Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage, 1967V. PERFORMING THE STATE V.1. The Annual Openings of Parliament V.2. The Transkei Independence Celebrations, 1976VI. THE HENDRIK VERWOERD DAM VI.1. Symbol of Modernity and National Pride VI.2. The Dam in the Regime’s Visual NetworkCONCLUSIONNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY Archival Sources Literature Periodicals and Newspapers Film Online Sources Email Communication and InterviewsILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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Leuven University Press Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans
Book SynopsisFirst book-length study by an African writer that incorporates the trials and triumphs of Queen Elizabeth II, tracing her contributions to African affairsThe road to Queen Elizabeth II's implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the throne. In this book, Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen Elizabeth II''s role in the African decolonization trajectories and the postcolonial state''s quest for genuine political and economic liberation since 1947. By locating Elizabeth at the center of Anglophone Africa''s independence agitations, the account harnesses the African interests to tease out the monarch''s dilemma of complying with Whitehall''s decolonization schemes while building an inclusive and unified Commonwealth in which Africans could play a vital role. Njoku argues that to gratify British lawmakers in her complex and marginal place within the British parliamentary system of conservative vers
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Leuven University Press Textures of Power
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Leuven University Press African Womens Histories in European Narratives
Book SynopsisThe Krio Fernandino women, pioneers of Europe's African diaspora in the 19th Century. Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as wealthy, elegantly dressed individuals with refined tastes and fluent in several languages. The Krio Fernandino represented a multisited, multilocal, transnational, transcontinental and Afropolitan community that lived between Africa and Europe from the late 19th century onwards. This book explains how the Krio Fernandino, and particularly their women, transcended the barriers of race and gender in colonial Africa and in Spain. Aixelà-Cabré highlights a fascinating journey across cultures and continents, unearthing a compelling narrative of African women's empowerment in their home continent and in Catalonia. This research highlights a women's history that resonates on regional, national and transcontinental levels; a genuine Euro-African and Afro-European legacy to be preserved for future generations. This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/
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Sidestone Press Pieces of a Nation: South Sudanese Heritage and
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Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Rebel Lives: Photographs from Inside the Lord's
Book SynopsisThe Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by the infamous Joseph Kony, is a rebel group that was active in Northern Uganda from the second half of the 1980s. The rebellion became notorious for the use of extreme violence, in particular its large-scale abductions of civilians, of which more than half were children. Rebel Lives is a visual story about life inside the rebel group: based on photographs taken by LRA commanders between 1994 and 2004, the book documents life inside the group, and depicts the rebels as they wanted to be seen among themselves and by the outside world. Kristof Titeca, senior lecturer in Development Studies and expert on the LRA, collected this material, and used it to trace the photographed (former) rebels. Together with Congolese photographer Georges Senga, he travelled back to photograph the former rebels in their current context, and give a voice to these actors. This visual story is not only about the LRA. It is a story about conflict in all times, and all places, where the limits of victim and perpetrator have become blurred, where people struggle to survive and find their place, and where children in particular bear the brunt of this tension.Trade Review"Disturbingly haunting and banally quotidian at the same time. Based on meticulous research and astute writing, with beautiful poems and remarkable follow-up photos, Rebel Lives unveils a layer of humanity that makes the rebels' own photos worth understanding in the first place. It is a most important historical document." - Sverker Finnstroem, author of award-winning Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
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Talaye Porsoo We Are Heirs of the World's Revolutions
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