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  • - Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007
    av Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman
    376,-

    This in-depth study of the Zambezi River Valley examines the dominant developmentalist narrative that has surrounded the Cahora Bassa Dam, chronicles the continual violence that has accompanied its existence, and gives voice to previously unheard narratives of forced labor, displacement, and historical and contemporary life in the dam's shadow.

  • av Faeeza Ballim
    394 - 865,-

  • - Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
    av Nuno Domingos
    389 - 848,-

    In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends.

  • - Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
    av Keren Weitzberg
    372 - 848,-

    Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.

  • - Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique
    av Paolo Israel
    376,-

    The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozam-bique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition throughout the twentieth century. Based on field research spanning seven years, this study shows how mapiko has undergone continuous reinvention by visionary individuals, has diversified into genres with broad generational appeal, and has enacted historical events and political engagements. This dense history of creativity and change has been sustained by a culture of competition deeply ingrained within the logic of ritual itself. The desire to outshine rivals on the dance ground drives performers to search for the new, the astonishing, and the topical. It is this spirit of rivalry and one-upmanship that keeps mapiko attuned to the times that it traverses. In Step with the Times is illustrated with vibrant photographs of mapiko masks and performances. It marks the most radical attempt to date to historicize an African performative tradition.

  • - A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa
    av Stephanie Newell
    372,-

    Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation.

  • - Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
    av Robert Trent Vinson
    465,-

    For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and "American Negroes" - a group that included African Americans and black West Indians - established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements.

  • - Environmental Relations in the Making of the Transkei
    av Jacob A. Tropp
    350 - 1 094,-

    In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context-the Transkei-subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid.

  • - A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999
    av Gary Kynoch
    350 - 1 009,-

    Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa's gold mining areas.

  • - Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, c. 1890-1975
    av Shobana Shankar
    372 - 1 042,-

    Who Shall Enter Paradise? recounts in detail the history of Christian-Muslim engagement in a core area of sub-Saharan Africa's most populous nation, home to roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims.

  • - African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa
    av Michelle R. Moyd
    398,-

    The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history.Lauded

  • av Elizabeth W. Giorgis
    425 - 943,-

    In locating her arguments at the intersection of visual culture and literary and performance studies, Giorgis details how innovations in visual art intersected with shifts in narratives of modernity. The result is a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece.

  • - Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania
    av Laura Fair
    403 - 943,-

    Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media-from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films-to speak to local dreams and desires.

  • - Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean
    av Thomas F. McDow
    383 - 848,-

    Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies to explain how in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. McDow's new historical analysis of the Indian Ocean reveals roles of previously invisible people.

  • - Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry
    av Matthew M. Heaton
    372,-

    Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.

  • - Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
    av Jeffrey S. Ahlman
    398 - 848,-

    In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party, drew the world's attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa's postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa.

  • - Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
    av Julie MacArthur
    383 - 848,-

    Encompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur's study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.

  • - Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-1975
    av Todd Cleveland
    376,-

    Diamonds in the Rough explores the lives of African laborers on Angola's diamond mines from the commencement of operations in 1917 to the colony's independence from Portugal in 1975. The mines were owned and operated by the Diamond Company of Angola, or Diamang, which enjoyed exclusive mining and labor concessions granted by the colonial government. Through these monopolies, the company became the most profitable enterprise in Portugal's African empire. After a tumultuous initial period, the company's mines and mining encampments experienced a remarkable degree of stability, in striking contrast to the labor unrest and ethnic conflicts that flared in other regions. Even during the Angolan war for independence (1961-75), Diamang's zone of influence remained comparatively untroubled.Todd Cleveland explains that this unparalleled level of quietude was a product of three factors: African workers' high levels of social and occupational commitment, or "e;professionalism"e;; the extreme isolation of the mining installations; and efforts by Diamang to attract and retain scarce laborers through a calculated paternalism. The company's offer of decent accommodations and recreational activities, as well as the presence of women and children, induced reciprocal behavior on the part of the miners, a professionalism that pervaded both the social and the workplace environments. This disparity between the harshness of the colonial labor regime elsewhere and the relatively agreeable conditions and attendant professionalism of employees at Diamang opens up new ways of thinking about how Africans in colonial contexts engaged with forced labor, mining capital, and ultimately, each other.

  • - Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania
    av James R. Brennan
    376,-

    Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam.

  • - A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present
    av Jan Bender Shetler
    350 - 1 094,-

    Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds-as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists.

  • - Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913
    av Cheikh Anta Babou
    383 - 895,-

    In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West.

  • - Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro
    av Matthew V. Bender
    389 - 848,-

    In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1850s, they have encountered groups from beyond the mountain-colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, the independent Tanzanian state, development agencies, and climate scientists-who have understood water differently. Drawing on the concept of waterscapes-a term that describes how people "e;see"e; water, and how physical water resources intersect with their own beliefs, needs, and expectations-Bender argues that water conflicts should be understood as struggles between competing forms of knowledge.Water Brings No Harm encourages readers to think about the origins and interpretation of knowledge and development in Africa and the global south. It also speaks to the current global water crisis, proposing a new model for approaching sustainable water development worldwide.

  • - Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon
    av Rachel Jean-Baptiste
    376 - 875,-

    Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of marriage and other arrangements between men and women in Libreville, Gabon, during the French colonial era, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1960.

  • - A Social History of the Kruger National Park
    av Jacob S. T. Dlamini
    424 - 969,-

    Safari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa's national parks-often derided by scholars as colonial impositions-survived the end of white rule on the continent.

  • - Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
    av David Morton
    424 - 943,-

    Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future.

  • - African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948
    av Karen E. Flint
    376 - 1 094,-

    Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges.

  • - Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
    av Abou B. Bamba
    383 - 943,-

    Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent. At the same time, Marxist scholars-most notably Samir Amin-described the capitalist activity in Ivory Coast as empty, unsustainable, and incapable of bringing real change to the lives of ordinary people. To some extent, Amin's criticisms were validated when, in the 1980s, the Ivorian economy collapsed.In African Miracle, African Mirage, Abou B. Bamba incorporates economics, political science, and history to craft a bold, transnational study of the development practices and intersecting colonial cultures that continue to shape Ivory Coast today. He considers French, American, and Ivorian development discourses in examining the roles of hydroelectric projects and the sugar, coffee, and cocoa industries in the country's boom and bust. In so doing, he brings the agency of Ivorians themselves to the fore in a way not often seen in histories of development. Ultimately, he concludes that the "e;maldevelopment"e; evident by the mid-1970s had less to do with the Ivory Coast's "e;insufficiently modern"e; citizens than with the conflicting missions of French and American interests within the context of an ever-globalizing world.

  • - Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule
    av Emily Lynn Osborn
    394,-

    In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization?

  • - Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria
    av Judith A. Byfield
    416,-

    In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women's political activism in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, thus offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state.

  • - Photography and Visibility in African History
     
    424,-

    Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.

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