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 ...
EXOTIC PLANTS OF WESTERN AFRICA: WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND WHEN
Jan 01, 2008; ... I History in Africa carried an article in 1992 entitled "The European Introduction of Crops into West Africa in Precolonial Times."1 I wrote this to correct an impression left by several historians that only maize and cassava were worth mentioning. My reading of precolonial African ...
FINDING BOSUTSWE: ARCHEOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERSWITH THE PAST1
Jan 01, 2008; ... Two Worlds Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural able to slip from "How's life" to M'estan volviendo loca, able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, American but ...
THE ROLE OF N.C. EJITUWU IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NIGER DELTA HISTORIOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2008; ... I The history of history-writing in the Niger Delta was first developed by E.J. Alagoa.1 However, his work, which covers the periods from 1508 to 1988, does not go into the twenty-first century. This is the case as well for N.C. Ejituwu, who extended the Delta historiography to 1999 but ...
"THE LOST PROVINCE": NEGLECT AND GOVERNANCE IN COLONIAL OGOJA
Jan 01, 2008; ... I The notion that the colonial entity administered as Ogoja Province represented a Nigerian form of "the frontier" persisted right through the period of British rule in Nigeria. In a late colonial geography, Ogoja and eastern Calabar are referred to as the "pioneer fringe."1 Marginalized ...
THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF HIV AND AIDS IN UGANDA
Jan 01, 2008; ... I Uganda has been in the world headlines since the mid-1980s, first as a nation severely hit by HIV and AIDS, and later, from the late 1990s onwards, as the first country in sub-Saharan Africa that has managed to reverse a generalised HIV epidemic. Countless newspaper articles, ...
THE BENIN KINGDOM IN BRITISH IMPERIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2008; ... I The body of knowledge that constituted British imperial writing, and the expression that interacted with it were attempts to engage European readership on the imperial adventure in Africa in the age of the new imperialism. This study is an attempt to address the complex issues involved ...
AFRICAN WORDS, ACADEMIC CHOICES: RE-PRESENTING INTERVIEWS AND ORAL HISTORIES1
Jan 01, 2008; ... I There are many things that it is like, this storytelling business. One of them (so she says in one of the paragraphs she has not crossed out yet) is a bottle with a genie in it. When the storyteller opens the bottle, the genie is released into the world, and it costs all hell to get ...
FORGOTTEN EXPEDITION INTO GUINEA, WEST AFRICA, 1815-17: AN EDITOR'S COMMENTS
Jan 01, 2008; ... I Late in 1818 Major William Gray (Royal African Corps) and Staff Surgeon (Captain) Duncan Dochard (RAC) launched a mission of discovery along the Gambia River, intending to determine the source of the Niger River and follow its course to the point that it flowed into an inland sea or ...
EXAMINING TEXT SEDIMENTS-COMMENDING A PIONEER HISTORIAN AS AN "AFRICAN HERODOTUS": ON THE MAKING OF THE NEW ANNOTATED EDITION OF C.C. REINDORF'S HISTORY OF THE GOLD COAST AND ASANTE1
Jan 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) I In 1995 Paul Jenkins, the former Basel Mission archivist, called my attention to Carl Christian Reindorf's Gã manuscripts kept at the archives in Basel, knowing that I had lived and worked in Ghana in the 1980s and that I was ...
BEYOND DIVERSITY: WOMEN, SCARIFICATION, AND YORUBA IDENTITY
Jan 01, 2008; ... I On 18 March 1898 Okolu, an Ijesa man, accused Otunba of Italemo ward, Ondo of seizing and enslaving his sister Osun and his niece. Both mother and daughter, enslaved by the Ikale in 1894, had fled from their master in 1895, but as they headed toward Ilesa, the accused seized them. Osun ...
CHIPIMPI, VULGAR CLANS, AND LALA-LAMBA ETHNOHISTORY1
Jan 01, 2008; ... I Common to the matrilineal peoples of eastern central Africa is their clan system, and the reciprocal joking or "funeral friendship," relations that exist between clans with figuratively complementary names (Cunnison 1959:62-71; Richards 1937; Stefaniszyn 1950). This paper, however, ...
REFLECTIONS ON THE ORAL TRADITIONS OF THE NTERAPO OF THE SALAGA AREA
Jan 01, 2008; ... I This paper presents initial thoughts on the historical, linguistic, and archeological significance of the oral traditions of Nterapo communities in the Salaga area. As members of a minority, and a commoner group in the Gonja traditional sociopolitical system, the Nterapo have not been ...
ARE UNPUBLISHED SOURCES BEST? REFLECTIONS ON A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH SOURCE
Jan 01, 2008; ... In his excellent edition of the abortive Dutch expedition to capture Elmina Castle on the Gold Coast in 1625, Henk den Heijer has transcribed from records in the Algemeen Rijksarchief the journal by Admiral Jan Dirksz Lam and the resolutions passed by the ships' council.1 I was puzzled, however, ...
CARTOGRAPHICAL QUANDARIES: THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN BURTON'S AND SPEKE'S SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE
Jan 01, 2008; ... I When he sighted the southern end of Lake Victoria on 3 August 1858, John Hanning Speke (1859b:397) realized that he had discovered the "source" of the White Nile, the most important tributary of the Nile proper, and so had "almost, if not entirely, solved a problem which it has been ...
THOMAS BOWREY'S MADAGASCAR MANUSCRIPT OF 1708
Jan 01, 2007; ... I In 1913 an old chest was discovered in a manor house in Worcestershire in the west of England. Packed with bundles of manuscripts, it contained several hundred letters and business papers written in a crabbed italic hand. These documents belonged to Thomas Bowrey, an English overseas ...