Search
Search Results
-
Land, Mines, and Bones: African History and Deep Knowledges of the Earth
This chapter considers the connections between histories of the earth sciences (and knowledges of the earth more generally) and African history. It...
-
South African Economy Trails and Possibilities
The South African economy has largely performed below its potential. Although the size of the South African economy has significantly increased since...
-
Children and Youth in African History
This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on...
-
The Kenyan Shilling: History of an East African Currency
The Kenyan shilling has remained a ubiquitous colonial legacy. This chapter aims to examine the origin, meanings, and metamorphosis of the Kenyan...
-
South African Revolutionaries: 1915–1922
Around Johannesburg in 1922 a strike by white mineworkers became a militarised confrontation, the only time when the South African state used...
-
African-American Foreign Service Women
Brief introductions used in previous chapters—focusing on social and educational backgrounds—offer inadequate explanation of the circumstances that...
-
History as Legitimacy
Historical narratives are interwoven in all categories of secular claims to territory. Nevertheless, “history” merits separate attention since it has...
-
Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the...
-
Travel Narratives of Globetrotting African Women
‘The Travel Narratives of Globetrotting African Women’ examines African women’s overseas experiences to illuminate how they computed issues of race,...
-
Criminal Fertility: Policing North African Families After Decolonization
This chapter considers the entanglement of two distinct sets of racialized fears about North African migrants: demography and criminality. Using the...
-
From Indian History to the History of Civilisations
The final decade of Panikkar’s life was a period of intense intellectual revision, in the context of growing concerns for Indian unity and foreign...
-
African Diaspora Women and African Development
African diaspora women are a varied group of persons with potentials for development. This chapter examines the continuous yet unfairly circulated...
-
The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret
Probably scholars would never know of either Socrates or Sozomen had it not been for their histories. Theodoret of Cyrrhus was, in contrast, a...
-
Notes for a New History
Siep Stuurman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The central themes in his research and teaching...
-
Modernizing Migrants: Welfare and the Postwar Transformation of Marseille’s African Communities
This chapter demonstrates how the ambitions of African migrants, French imperial officials, and local philanthropists converged in efforts to...
-
-
Beyond Paradoxes: The South African Military Involvement in the Fight against Covid-19
This chapter examines the prospects and paradoxes of military involvement in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa. From the...
-
Colonial Violence in German and English History Textbooks
This chapter compares ten recent German and English textbook representations of colonialism with the objective to better understand the postcolonial...
-
African Women’s Letters as Intellectual History and Decolonial Knowledge Production
This chapter explores the anthology series Women Writing Africa as a way of thinking about decolonial knowledge production. By analyzing four letters...
-
The Appropriation of Simon Kimbangu in Current African Religious and Political Discourses
Congolese prophet Simon Kimbangu has become a symbol of anti-colonial and neocolonial resistance beyond his country. It is observed in many African...