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A historical account of the rise and development of the modern
medical profession in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya from the 1870s to
the present day. This book describes the recruitment and education
of doctors, and their understanding and practice of modern
medicine. It addresses their struggles, working in conditions of
political and economic uncertainty, and search for international
recognition; and their contribution to the study and control of
HIV/AIDS.
John Iliffe's 1998 book is a history of the African medical
profession in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from the earliest training
of modern medical staff in the 1870s to the present day. Based on
extensive research, and dealing exclusively with African doctors,
it offers an understanding of professionalisation in the Third
World. It describes the recruitment and education of doctors, their
understanding and practice of modern medicine, the struggle for
international recognition of their qualifications and efforts to
develop East African medical systems after independence, and their
experiences during a period of political and economic difficulty.
The book ends with an account of the significant work of East
African doctors in the study and control of AIDS. This is a major
contribution to the social history of Africa and to the social
history of medicine more broadly.
The history of Tanganyika from the Maji Maji rebellion of 1905 (the
greatest African rebellion against early European rule) to the last
years of German administration. It examines a colonial situation in
depth, ranging from the processes of change in African societies to
the decisions of policy-makers in Berlin. In the aftermath of
rebellion an imaginative Governor, Freiherr von rechenberg,
initiated a programme of African cash-crop agriculture. This
programme was reversed by a settler community which successfully
manipulated the German political system. Meanwhile, after their
defeat in armed rebellion, Africans sought power through
educational and economic advancement. Tanganyika in 1912 was poised
for that struggle for control between European settler and educated
African which has been a fundamental theme of the modern history of
East and Central Africa. Dr Illiffe's book is one of the few
available studies of German colonial administration. He has drawn
on a wide range of sources, both in East Africa and Germany.
Written in the light of current reappraisal of African history, the
book gives valuable insight into African initiatives during the
early years of European rule.
This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the
monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South
African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from
histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans
have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support,
and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has
emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to
productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread
destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost
eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where
drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor
Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor
sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other
continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely
parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African
poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms
will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed
and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all
concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of
poverty elsewhere.
This first full account of Obasanjo's life from 1937 to 2010
combines an analysis of an exceptionally vital and complicated man
with a history of an exceptionally vital and complicated country.
Olusegun Obasanjo was Nigeria's military head of state (1976-9) and
President (1999-2007). His career is made the focus for a history
of Nigeria's first fifty years of independence (1960-2010) and of
African continental affairs during the same period (Obasanjo having
been an active opponent of apartheid and an architect of the
African Union). The most important African leader of his
generation, Obasanjo has had an extraordinarily diverse career as
soldier, politician, statesman, farmer, author, political prisoner,
Baptist preacher, and family patriarch. As a soldier, he secured
the victory in Nigeria's civil war. As military head of state, he
returned the country to civilian rule. For the next 20 years he was
ceaselessly active, before spending three years as a political
prisoner. Released from prison, Obasanjo served Nigeria as elected
President from 1999 to 2007, until his growing authoritarianism and
his manipulation of his successor's election ruined his reputation
among many Nigerians. This book argues that the controversial end
to his presidency must be understood in the light of his earlier
career. The author has used mainly published sources, especially
Nigerian newspapers and political memoirs, as well as recently
released FCO documents in Britain. John Iliffe is a Fellow of St
John's College, Cambridge. He retired as Professor of African
History at Cambridge in 2006 and has published widely on African
history including: A Modern History of Tanganyika; The Emergence of
African Capitalism; The African Poor: A History; Africans: the
History of a Continent; Honour in African History and The African
Aids Epidemic: A History. Nigeria: HEBN [PB]
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of
mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on
the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have
been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the
last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical
progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has
ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic
findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises
research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave
trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing
youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and
economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the
containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that
has produced the Arab Spring. Africans: The History of a Continent
is thus a single story binding modern men and women to their
earliest human ancestors.
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of
honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the
present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is
essential to an understanding of past and present African
behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated
heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal
householder, and women honoured one another for industry,
endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both
conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings.
Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas
of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty,
respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the
changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the
nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same
inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to
tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.
In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of
mankind to the present day, John Iliffe refocuses its history on
the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have
been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, but during the
last century their inherited culture has interacted with medical
progress to produce the most rapid population growth the world has
ever seen. This new edition incorporates genetic and linguistic
findings, throwing light on early African history and summarises
research that has transformed the study of the Atlantic slave
trade. It also examines the consequences of a rapidly growing
youthful population, the hopeful but uncertain democratisation and
economic recovery of the early twenty-first century, the
containment of the AIDS epidemic and the turmoil within Islam that
has produced the Arab Spring. Africans: The History of a Continent
is thus a single story binding modern men and women to their
earliest human ancestors.
This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of
modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters
on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial
period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change
among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the
basis of their political behaviour. Particularl attention is paid
to the consequences for small-scale societies of their
incorporation into the international order; the impact of
capitlaism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and
attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous
institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against
European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a
specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change
on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together
the research which scholars of many nationalities have carried out
in Tanzania over the last twenty years, and attempts to synthesise
their findings with the evidence available from African and
European records in Tanzania, Britain and Germany.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This history of the African AIDS epidemic is a much-needed,
accessibly written historical account of the most serious
epidemiological catastrophe of modern times. The African AIDS
Epidemic: A History answers President Thabo Mbeki's provocative
question as to why Africa has suffered this terrible epidemic.
While Mbeki attributed the causes to poverty and exploita-tion,
others have looked to distinctive sexual systems practiced in
African cultures and communities. John Iliffe stresses historical
sequence. He argues that Africa has had the worst epidemic because
the disease was established in the general population before anyone
knew the disease existed. HIV evolved with extraordinary speed and
complexity, and because that evolution took place under the eyes of
modern medical research scien-tists, Iliffe has been able to write
a history of the virus itself that is probably unique among
accounts of human epidemic diseases. In giving the African
experience a historical shape, John Iliffe has written one of the
most important books of our time. The African experience of AIDS
has taught the world much of what it knows about HIV/AIDS, and this
fascinating book brings into focus many aspects of the epidemic in
the longer context of massive demographic growth, urbanization, and
social change in Africa during the latter half of the twentieth
century. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History is a brilliant
introduction to the many aspects of the epidemic and the
distinctive character of the virus.
This is an accessible book on the most terrible catastrophe of
modern times. This book is aimed initially at students who want to
study the history of the Aids epidemic but who currently have no
starting point from which to enter the vast and often technical
literature. Other readers will also find it a helpful introduction
to a subject of immense contemporary importance. This book explains
the origins and nature of the virus and the unique epidemic it has
caused: the progress of the epidemic across the African continent;
thecircumstances that have made its impact so severe; the responses
of governments, international bodies and NGOs; the moral and
political controversies; the effect on households, social systems
and economics; the care of the sick and the search for remedies and
vaccines; and the impact of antiretroviral treatments. This book
uses medical, anthropological and eye-witness sources but assumes
no prior knowledge. Professor Iliffe has forty years experience of
teaching in Africa and Britain. His books on modern African history
are renowned. North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: Double
Storey/Juta
This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of
honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the
present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is
essential to an understanding of past and present African
behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated
heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal
householder, and women honoured one another for industry,
endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both
conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings.
Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas
of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty,
respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the
changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the
nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same
inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to
tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.
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