Recently added articles from The International Journal of African Historical Studies:
View from the Village: Changing Settlement Patterns in Sisalaland, Northern Ghana
Jan 01, 2008; Swanepoel, Natalie ... Introduction It has become a commonplace to observe, as Labelle Prussin1 has done, that in West Africa (and Africa generally), a residence "is no more than the physical projection in space of the social organization of the family which inhabits it." The form, size, and configuration of ...
Living with a Tyrant: Ndau Memories and Identities in the Shadow of Ngungunyana*
Jan 01, 2008; MacGonagle, Elizabeth ... Ngungunyana was a problem ... We are called Ngungunyana's people yet we are Ndau. We were changed into Changana (Shangani).1 - Jona Mwaoneni Makuyana People who were staying here were called Machangana (Shangani), but they were Ndau. Their leader was ...
Kongo Slavery Remembered by Themselves: Texts from 1915*
Jan 01, 2008; MacGaffey, Wyatt ... In modern societies, it is generally assumed that an individual is or ought to be the "owner" of his or her own labor and free to offer services to others contractually, in exchange for money or equivalent services. The foundational argument for the natural autonomy of "men" within a consensual ...
The Organization of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Yorubaland, ca.1777 to ca.1856*
Jan 01, 2008; Ojo, Olatunji ... Yorubaland was one of the most important slave-exporting regions in Africa during the nineteenth century, second only to Central Africa. Enslaved Yoruba were distributed widely throughout the Atlantic world, with the largest groups found in Sierra Leone, Cuba, Brazil, and Trinidad. The impact of ...
Samuel Hodges, Jr., and the Symbiosis of Slave and "Legitimate" Trades, 1810s-1820s*
Jan 01, 2008; Brooks, George E ... Now if no envious competitor presents himself the prospects could not well be better-that is if my Sierra Leone Tobacco will suit for the slave trade. No! What am I to know for what purposes it is to [be] sold? I sell for produce or money. The use of it afterwards, certainly [I] am not ...
An Africanist's Apostasy: On Luise White's Speaking with Vampires*
Jan 01, 2008; Mann, Gregory ... Who's afraid of Speaking with Vampires! More people than one would think. And for many Africaniste, there is good reason to be afraid. Luise White's work on Rumor and History in Colonial Africa takes on some of the most prominent themes of Africanist historiography on the twentieth ...
Changing Settlement Patterns in the Aksum-Yeha Region of Ethiopia: 700 BC-AD 850
Jan 01, 2008; Curtis, Matthew C ... Changing Settlement Patterns in the Aksum-Yeha Region of Ethiopia: 700 BC-AD 850. By Joseph W. Michels. British Archaeological Reports S1446. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 64. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005. Pp. xvii, 256; 55 tables, 59 figures, maps, drawings, plans, and photographs, ...
Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
Jan 01, 2008; Jean-Baptiste, Rachel ... Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate. By Mary Wren Bivins. Social History of Africa. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. $29.95 paper. Though there is a significant body of literature on the Sokoto Caliphate, ...
Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism
Jan 01, 2008; Moudileno, Lydie ... Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. By Dominic Thomas. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp xv, 305. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. As Nicolas Sarkozy's France continues to interrogate what it means to be French in queries often vectored ...
Power in Colonial Lesotho: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960
Jan 01, 2008; Rosenberg, Scott ... Power in Colonial Lesotho: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960. By Elizabeth Eldredge. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 264. $65.00 cloth. Elizabeth Eldredge's work provides important detail and critical analysis of some defining moments in Leostho's ...
The African City: A History
Jan 01, 2008; LaViolette, Adria ... The African City: A History. By Bill Freund. New Approaches to African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 214; 27 illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $19.99 paper. Urban formations are indigenous to and characteristic of the African continent, and have long been sites ...
Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913
Jan 01, 2008; Hanson, John H ... Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913. By Cheikh Anta Babou. New African History Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 294; 23 illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. This book concerns the early years of the ...
Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003
Jan 01, 2008; Tuck, Michael W ... Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003. By Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston Mclntosh. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2006. Pp. xii, 308; 4 maps and 3 illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. Through the 1990s Uganda stood out among ...
Islam, histoire, et modernité en Côte d'Ivoire
Jan 01, 2008; Ware, Rudolph T III ... Islam, histoire, et modernité en Côte d'Ivoire. By Marie Miran. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2006, Pp. 546, 33 color illustrations. Marie Miran's Islam, histoire et modernité en Côte d'Ivoire is an important book and will become a useful reference work for students of Islam in Africa. It ...
Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa
Jan 01, 2008; Smythe, Kathleen ... Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. By Patrick Harries. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2007. Pp. xvii, 286; 30 illustrations. $26.95 paper. Patrick Harries explores the relationship between Swiss missionaries ...
Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World
Jan 01, 2008; Waters, Tony ... Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World. Edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Markus Rediker. The California World History Library 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. x, 262; illustrations. $24.95 paper. Many Middle ...
Exclusion and Inclusion: Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914
Jan 01, 2008; Gordon, Robert J ... Exclusion and Inclusion: Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914. By Robbie Aitken. Cultural Identity Studies 6. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. 265; 2 tables, 1 map $63.95 paper. There have been a number of useful studies on ...
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment
Jan 01, 2008; Robbins, Nina Tanner ... Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment. By Abiodun Alao. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester, N. Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 353; 1 map, 18 tables, 5 figures. $85.00 cloth. Africa is home to some of the ...
Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers and Colonial Policies
Jan 01, 2008; Sheridan, Michael J ... Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers and Colonial Policies. By Grace Carswell. Eastern African Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa; Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2007. Pp. xii, 258; 8 maps, 9 photographs, 14 figures, ...
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
Jan 01, 2008; Allen, William E ... An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia. By Marie Tyler-McGraw. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. ix. 249; 17 illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay. $34.95 cloth. Marie Tyler-McGraw's book traces the leading role that ...