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How and why did the Congolese elite turn from loyal intermediaries
into opponents of the colonial state? This book seeks to enrich our
understanding of the political and cultural processes culminating
in the tumultuous decolonization of the Belgian Congo. Focusing on
the making of an African bourgeoisie, the book illuminates the
so-called evolues' social worlds, cultural self-representations,
daily life and political struggles. https://youtu.be/c8ybPCi80dc
This volume presents an account of how people in sub-Saharan Africa
have fared under changing life circumstances of the past centuries
until the present. By introducing the geography of the region it
traces a time line of different historical periods that have shaped
livelihoods of ordinary people of the region, and addresses the
major milestones in political and economic development. It focuses
on social indicators pointing to significant changes that have
affected the health, education and wealth of sub-Saharan Africans
and their outlook on the future since the wind of change blew
through the region. With case studies and vignettes the book
highlights how individual citizens across the 44 different
countries of sub-Saharan Africa experience well-being and express
their aspirations for the future. This book provides relevant
material for practitioners and policy makers, including community
and development workers, in non-governmental and other
organizations in sub-Saharan African countries.
Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa’s most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. While other men his age were joining Umkhonto weSizwe, Holomisa enrolled in the Transkeian Defence Force and rose rapidly through the ranks.
As head of the Transkeian Defence Force, Holomisa led successive coups against the homeland regimes and then became the head of its military government. He turned the Transkei into a ‘liberated space’, giving shelter to ANC and PAC activists, and declared his intention of holding a referendum on the reincorporation of the Transkei into South Africa. These actions brought him immense popularity and the military dictator became a liberation hero for many South Africans.
When the unbanned ANC held its first election for its national executive in 1994, Holomisa, who had by now joined the party, received the most votes, beating long-time veterans and party stalwarts. He and Mandela developed a close relationship, and Holomisa served in Mandela’s cabinet as deputy minister for environmental affairs and tourism. As this biography reveals, the relationship with both Mandela and the ANC broke down after Holomisa testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, among other issues, that Stella Sigcau and her cabinet colleagues had accepted a bribe from Sol Kerzner.
After being expelled from the ANC, Holomisa formed his own party, the United Democratic Movement, with Roelf Meyer. As leader of the UDM, Holomisa has played a prominent role in building coalitions among opposition parties and in leading important challenges to the dominant party.
This biography, written in collaboration with Holomisa, presents an engaging and revealing account of a man who has made his mark as a game changer in South African politics.
This book provides an overview of the history, culture, and society
of Namibia, a country on which little information in English
exists. Namibia is a sizeable and significant country in southern
Africa that is little known to the outside world. A vast country of
startling beauty with a storied history, including one of the
world's worst genocides and a war of independence that lasted
nearly a quarter century, this "land between two deserts" is a
fascinating result of its African, German, and English influences.
Culture and Customs of Namibia is one of very few English language
works written about Namibia's history, culture, and society. The
book reveals details about Namibian daily life, gender relations,
modern youth culture, and the influence of traditional cultures
that allow readers to appreciate this country's unique character. A
section on tourism explains how Namibia-an extremely arid country
with an immense number and diversity of wildlife-is on the cutting
edge of ecotourism. Provides a chronology of key events in the
history of Namibia Includes photographs of natural Namibian
settings, such as the desert, colonial architecture, unique plant
and animal life, and Namibia's cultural life An interdisciplinary
bibliography-drawn from history, politics, gender, law and other
relevant fields-provides suggestions for further reading A glossary
contains terms used commonly in contemporary Namibia
This is a survey of the roles women have played in Africa south of
the Sahara, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the present-day
presidents of Liberia and Malawi. Romero discusses education and
religion; the occult and power; diseases and treatment; women and
war; and women's increasing presence on the political stage,
including their roles as environmental activists. Drawing on the
latest research, the book comprises documents, travellers'
accounts, and case studies in its coverage of pre-colonial,
colonial, and post-colonial Africa.
Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist
leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental
socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness'
drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's
popular uprising in 2014. This book looks at Sankara's political
philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of
his synthesis of Pan-Africanism and humanist Marxist politics, as
well as his approach to gender, development, ecology and
decolonisation offer new insights to Sankarist political
philosophies. Critical evaluations of the limitations of the
revolution examine his relationship with labour unions and other
aspects of his leadership style. His legacy is revealed by looking
at contemporary activists, artists and politicians who draw
inspiration from Sankarist thought in social movement struggles
today, from South Africa to Burkina Faso. In the 30th anniversary
of his assassination, this book illustrates how Sankara's political
praxis continues to provide lessons and hope for decolonisation
struggles today.
Angola has been embroiled in internal conflict since 1975. Yet
despite countless casualties, two million displaced people and over
500,000 refugees, Western media have paid scant attention. This
account provides an outline of key events and figures in recent
Angolan history, offering first-hand reportage of how the
revolution was deliberately derailed and the fabric of Angola
systematically destroyed. Victoria Brittain describes the bombings
and sabotage following Angola's invasion by South Africa in 1975
and examines the subsequent deployment of Cuban troops and the
Soviet-supported MPLA's confrontations with a militia backed by the
US, Morocco and Zaire. She looks at how Savimba's UNITA movement
became a formidable army, and reveals his regime in Angola to be as
brutal as the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The author argues that the
terrorism of thousands of people and their human rights violations
have been largely hidden from the world by US-driven propaganda
portraying Savimbi as a democrat.
This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the
Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of
contemporary historical sources, mostly documents from the Cairo
Geniza, life stories, conducts and practices of private people are
revealed. When put together these private biographies convey a
social portrait of an elite group which ruled over the local
community, but was part of a supra communal network.
As is the case for most of sub-Saharan Africa, African Traditional
Religion (ATR) is the indigenous religion of Sierra Leone. When the
early forebears and later progenitors of Islam and Christianity
arrived, they met Sierra Leone indigenes with a remarkable
knowledge of God and a structured religious system. Successive
Muslim clerics, traders, and missionaries were respectful of and
sensitive to the culture and religion of the indigenes who
accommodated them and offered them hospitality. This approach
resulted in a syncretistic brand of Islam. In contrast, most
Christian missionaries adopted an exclusive and insensitive
approach to African culture and religiosity. Christianity,
especially Protestantism, demanded a complete abandonment of
African culture and religion, and a total dedication to
Christianity. This attitude is continued by some indigenous clerics
and religious leaders to such an extent that Sierra Leone
Indigenous Religion (SLIR) and its practitioners continue to be
marginalised in Sierra Leone's interreligious dialogue and
cooperation. Although the indigenes of Sierra Leone were and
continue to be hospitable to Islam and Christianity, and in spite
of the fact that SLIR shares affinity with Islam and Christianity
in many theological and practical issues, and even though there are
many Muslims and Christians who still hold on to traditional
spirituality and culture, Muslim and Christian leaders of these
immigrant religions are reluctant to include Traditionalists in
interfaith issues in the country. The formation and constitution of
the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL), which has
local and international recognition, did not include ATR. These
considerations, then, beg the following questions: Why have Muslim
and Christian leaders long marginalized ATR, its practices, and
practitioners from interfaith dialogue and cooperation in Sierra
Leone? What is lacking in ATR that continues to prevent
practitioners of Christianity and Islam from officially involving
Traditionalists in the socioreligious development of the country?
This book investigates the reasons for the exclusion of ATR from
interreligious dialogue/cooperation and ATR's relevance and place
in the socioreligious landscape of Sierra Leone and the rest of the
world. It also discusses possible ways for ATR's inclusion in the
ongoing interfaith dialogue and cooperation in the country; this is
important because people living side by side meet and interact
personally and communally on a regular basis. As such, they share
common resources; communal benefits; and the joys, crises, and
sorrows of life. The social and cultural interaction and
cooperation involved in this dialogue of life are what compel
people to fully understand the worldviews of their neighbours and
to seek out better relationships with them. Most of the extant
books and courses about interreligious encounters and dialogue deal
primarily with the interaction between two or more of the major
world religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism,
and Sikhism. This book fills a gap in the study of interreligious
dialogue in Africa by taking into consideration the place and
relevance of ATR in interreligious dialogue and cooperation in
Sierra Leone. It provides the reader with basic knowledge of ATR,
Islam, and Christianity in their Sierra Leonean contexts, and of
interfaith encounters and dialogue among thethree major faith
traditions in Africa. As such, it provides for the first time a
historical, chronological, and comparative study of interreligious
encounters and dialogue among Traditionalists, Muslims, and
Christians in Sierra Leone. Traditionalists, Muslims, and
Christians in Africa is an important reference for scholars,
researchers, religious leaders, missionaries, and all who are
interested in interfaith cooperation and dialogue, especially among
all three of Africa's major living religions-ATR, Islam, and
Christianity.
In this book, you will learn how Africa is greatly endowed and
blessed, her contributions to world civilization, experiences with
colonialism and neo-colonialism, her need to excel, produce or
perish, the lessons from history and "Never Again."
This edited collection examines how Western European countries have
responded and been influenced by the apartheid system in South
Africa. The debate surrounding apartheid in South Africa underwent
a shift in the second half of the 20th century, with long held
positive, racist European opinions of white South Africans slowly
declining since decolonisation in the 1960s, and the increase in
the importance of human rights in international politics. While
previous studies have approached this question in the context of
national histories, more or less detached from each other, this
edited collection offers a broader insight into the transnational
and entangled histories of Western European and South African
societies. The contributors use exemplary case studies to trace the
change of perception, covering a plurality of reactions in
different societies and spheres: from the political and social, to
the economic and cultural. At the same time, the collection
emphasizes the interconnections of those reactions to what has been
called the last 'overtly racist regime' (George Frederickson) of
the twentieth century.
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Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle
against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with
revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian
authors writing in French actively contributed to the experimental
forms of the period, expressing a new age literarily as well as
politically and culturally. Looking at canonical Algerian
literature as part of the larger literary production in French
during decolonization, Valerie K. Orlando considers how novels by
Rachid Boudjedra, Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar, Nabile Fares, Yamina
Mechakra, and Kateb Yacine both influenced and were reflectors of
the sociopolitical and cultural transformation that took place
during this period in Algeria. Although their themes were rooted in
Algeria, the avant-garde writing styles of these authors were
influenced by early twentieth-century American modernists, the New
Novelists of 1940s-50s France, and African American authors of the
1950s-60s. This complex mix of influences led Algerian writers to
develop a unique modern literary aesthetic to express their world,
a tradition of experimentation and fragmentation that still
characterizes the work of contemporary Algerian francophone
writers.
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