Recently added articles from History In Africa:
MAPPING SHEKGALAGARI IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: A SOCIOHISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDY
Jan 01, 2008; ... I The Bakgalagari were classified by Guthrie (1948) as S30 and by Cole (1954) as 60/2/5. They incorporate ethnic groups such as Bangologa, Bashaga, Babolaongwe, Balala, Bakhena, Baritjhauba, and Bakgwatheng and Baphaleng, the latter of which do not speak Shekgalagari any more. At the ...
PERSPECTIVES ON FIFTY YEARS OF GHANAIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2008; ... I This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate on African methodology-sources, issues, methods, challenges-by presenting a Ghanaian case study, for, whereas there are a number of broad overviews of African methodology, some of which include surveys of regions such as eastern or ...
NEHANDA AND GENDER VICTIMHOOD IN THE CENTRAL MASHONALAND 1896-97 REBELLIONS: REVISITING THE EVIDENCE*
Jan 01, 2008; ... I In 1998 David N. Beach revisited the 1896-97 central MaShonaland rising in colonial Zimbabwe in an article titled "An Innocent Woman Unjustly Accused? Charwe, Medium of the Nehanda Mhondoro Spirit, and the 1896-97 Central Shona Rising in Zimbabwe."1 Beach's main thesis was that, ...
SPOKEN REMINISCENCES OF POLITICAL AGENTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA II1
Jan 01, 2008; ... Alkali Alhaji AliWaziri2 Q. Sir, I would like to know something about messengers and interpreters like Adamu Jakada. A. Adamu Jakada was the messenger between Emir Abbas and the Europeans. 3 Some of the messengers and interpreters were employed by the emir, and they were royal ...
MOMBASA CATHEDRAL AND THE CMS COMPOUND: THE YEARS OF THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE1
Jan 01, 2008; ... I Exactly when Islam arrived on the Swahili coast is difficult to say, but Mombasa was a Muslim town long before the arrival of Vasco da Gama in 1498. During the two centuries or so that the Portuguese-Christians occupied this part of the sea route from Europe to India there were ...