Search Results - "The International journal of African historical studies"

Affect and Society in Precolonial Africa by de Luna, Kathryn M.

“…Oral traditions, recovered burial sites, words' shifting meanings, and other residue of early African life also resonate with affectivity, but all too often…”
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"The African Native Has No Pocket": Monetary Practices and Currency Transitions in Early Colonial Uganda by Pallaver, Karin

“…According to her, the idea of a "currency revolution" fails to capture the complexity of African currency changes over the longue durée.13 According to Mahir…”
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The Atlantic Slave Trade from Angola: A Port-by-Port Estimate of Slaves Embarked, 1701–1867 by da Silva, Daniel B. Domingues

“…[...]for the periods when these series match, Klein's figures for slaves leaving Luanda are four percent higher than Goulart's and half percent lower than…”
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Escaping Slavery and Building Diasporic Communities in French Soudan and Senegal, ca. 1880-1940 by Rodet, Marie

“…Notable exceptions for Western Sudan are Roberts, Klein, and Peterson, but their analyses primarily looked at the exodus of formerly enslaved populations…”
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African Post-Slavery: A History of the Future by Rossi, Benedetta

“…Here some normative interpretations are incompatible with international treaties and conventions of which these countries are co-signatories.5 Ann Mayer has…”
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Introduction: Exploring Post-Slavery in Contemporary Africa by Lecocq, Baz, Hahonou, Éric Komlavi

“…The legal abolition of slavery restructures the organizational principles in a society on the presumption that human beings should be entitled to all their…”
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Kwame Nkrumah, African Studies, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Black Star of Africa by Allman, Jean

“…African studies in the North is a peripheral part of the academy, whereas the Euro-American epistemological order remains central in the African academy. Since…”
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Wealth Not by Any Other Name: Inland African Material Aesthetics in Expanding Commercial Times, ca. 16th-20th Centuries by Seligman, Andrea Felber

“…[...]a woman who wore brass wire was a prodigy; she was conspicuous and above all others. - Less than a century earlier, Abdallah's fellow Yao language…”
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"Let the Red Terror Intensify": Political Violence, Governance and Society in Urban Ethiopia, 1976-78 by Wiebel, Jacob

“…The Ethiopian Terror years have been written about and memorialized as a period of sustained state terror.1 The EPRDF's "Red Terror trials," which ran for the…”
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"Peace and Order are in the Interest of Every Citizen": Elections, Violence and State Legitimacy in Kenya, 1957-74 by Willis, Justin

“…The campaign against the Shifta separatists of northern Kenya involved so much extra-legal violence that an extraordinary law was passed indemnifying police,…”
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Wealth, Law, and Moral Authority: Marriage and Christian Mobilization in Interwar Cameroon by Walker-Said, Charlotte

“…Before European colonization, bridewealth was a form of matrimonial compensation paid principally in bikié, or iron bars, along with kola nuts, palm wine,…”
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Rebel and Rule in Burundi, 1972 by Russell, Aidan

“…[...]the methods adopted in the latter phase of violence share remarkable similarities of form, albeit conducted on a far divergent scale, that suggests a…”
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Stereotypes of Past-Slavery and "Stereo-styles" in Post-Slavery: A Multidimensional, Interactionist Perspective on Contemporary Hierarchies by Pelckmans, Lotte

“…[...]in addition to the anachronism and polysemy inherent in discursive categories and legal pluralism, we can observe a normative pluralism (see Eric Hahonou…”
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Hidden in Plain Sight: "Haratine" in Nouakchott's "Niche-Settlements" by McDougall, E. Ann

“…[...]they were seen as different and treated differently from "other" freed slaves. [...]there is an inference of "stasis" rather than change attached to Baba…”
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Power and Its Discontents: Anywaa's Reactions to the Expansion of the Ethiopian State, 1950-1991 by Feyissa, Dereje

“…Imperial rule under Haile Selassie and the contradictions it generated has received considerable scholarly attention, especially regarding the many local forms…”
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Violence and Political Advocacy in the Lost Counties, Western Uganda, 1930-64 by Peterson, Derek R.

“…There were, of course, other populisms from which Obote might have drawn: in Zanzibar, an army claiming to represent the interests of commoners had overthrown…”
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Spare the Rod, Spoil the Colony: Corporal Punishment, Colonial Violence, and Generational Authority in Kenya, 1897—1952 by Ocobock, Paul

“…Colonial governments relied on corporal punishment to broadcast their authority, often through military barracks, schools, courts, and penal institutions.3…”
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"Freedom But Nothing Else": The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956 by Whyte, Christine

“…Despite its hopeful, almost utopian origins, by the onset of the nineteenth century, the settlement was beset by disease, hunger, and hostility from its…”
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Female Seclusion in the Aftermath of Slavery on the Southern Swahili Coast: Transformations of Slavery in Unexpected Places by Becker, Felicitas

“…[...]it is intimately tied to the question of the silence or guarded, coded speech surrounding slavery.\n Our conversations took place about eighty years after…”
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The Urban History of a Rural Place: Swahili Archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania, 700-1500 AD by LaViolette, Adria, Fleisher, Jeffrey

“…[...] those that do exist suggest a different history in which Pemba was a core area of the Swahili coast in the late first millennium and early second…”
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