Recently added articles from The International Journal of African Historical Studies:
Introduction: Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape Transformations in Northeastern Tanzania, 1850-2000*
Sep 01, 2008; ... Studies of land use and of landscapes as expressions of human activities, in space and time, are gaining increasing attention in a variety of disciplines. This focus has relevance both for our understanding of society, culture, and nature, and for research on food security, land cover change, ...
Regional Political Ecology and Intensive Cultivation in Pre-Colonial and Colonial South Pare, Tanzania
Sep 01, 2008; ... Introduction1 Over the last two decades scholars working within the political ecology approach have revealed how economic differentiation and marginal ization resulting from capitalist incorporation have lead to unsustainable land use in rural, third world societies. However, there are ...
The Expansion of Traditional Irrigation in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Sep 01, 2008; ... Introduction The largest cluster of the stream diversion irrigation systems known as "hill furrows" in eastern Africa is found on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The history of this extensive furrow system is relevant to the debate on the history and geography of intensive ...
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Sep 01, 2008; ... Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. By Elizabeth MacGonagle. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2007. Pp. 192. $75.00 / £45.00. A historiographical consensus about the "invention of tradition" and the construction of ethnicity during colonial rule in southern Africa ...
The Darfur Sultanate: A History
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Darfur Sultanate: A History. By R. S. O'Fahey. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Pp. xx, 357; maps, diagrams, bibliography, index, glossary. $60.00. This masterful and timely study traces the history of Dar Fur from the medieval foundations of the realm to its ultimate loss ...