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Book The History of Kiziba and Its Kings

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  • Author : Peter R. Schmidt
  • Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
  • Release : 2020-06-03
  • ISBN : 9789987083688
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The History of Kiziba and Its Kings written by Peter R. Schmidt and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative translation makes available for the first time an accessible account of northwestern Tanzanian and southwestern Ugandan history during the pre-colonial and early colonial periods.

Book Amakuru Ga Kiziba

Download or read book Amakuru Ga Kiziba written by F. X. Lwamgira and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Generations Past

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  • Author : Andrew Burton
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2010-09-15
  • ISBN : 0821443437
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Generations Past written by Andrew Burton and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies. While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-related themes in historical perspective. Thirteen chapters explore the historical dimensions of youth in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first–century Ugandan, Tanzanian, and Kenyan societies. Key themes running through the book include the analytical utility of youth as a social category; intergenerational relations and the passage of time; youth as a social and political problem; sex and gender roles among East African youth; and youth as historical agents of change. The strong list of contributors includes prominent scholars of the region, and the collection encompasses a good geographical spread of all three East African countries.

Book Origins of Kingship Traditions and Symbolism in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Download or read book Origins of Kingship Traditions and Symbolism in the Great Lakes Region of Africa written by Birgitta Farelius and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English

Download or read book Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English written by Poddar Prem Poddar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first reference guide to the political, cultural and economic histories that form the subject-matter of postcolonial literatures written in English.The focus of the Companion is principally on the histories of postcolonial literatures in the Anglophone world - Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South-east Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific, the Caribbean and Canada. There are also long entries discussing the literatures and histories of those further areas that have also claimed the title 'postcolonial', notably Britain, East Asia, Ireland, Latin America and the United States. The Companion contains:*220 entries written by 150 acknowledged scholars of postcolonial history and literature;*covers major events, ideas, movements, and figures in postcolonial histories*long regional survey essays on historiography and women's histories. Each entry provides a summary of the historical event or topic and bibliographies of postcolonial literary works and histories. Extensive cross-references and indexes enable readers to locate particular literary texts in their relevant historical contexts, as well as to discover related literary texts and histories in other regions with ease.

Book The Politics of Disease Control

Download or read book The Politics of Disease Control written by Mari K. Webel and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past. Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change.

Book General History of Africa

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  • Author : International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa
  • Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
  • Release : 1984-12-31
  • ISBN : 9231017101
  • Pages : 774 pages

Download or read book General History of Africa written by International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1984-12-31 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents.

Book A History of the Church in Africa

Download or read book A History of the Church in Africa written by Bengt Sundkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.

Book The Marble Room

Download or read book The Marble Room written by Bill Hatcher and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up in an evangelical household in the Bible Belt, Hatcher's religion had provided no answers to his parents' broken marriage, or his own divorce. The key to his salvation would come from a most unlikely source: a flyer calling for Peace Corps volunteers. As a geography teacher at an all-girls' boarding school in Tanzania, he's expected broaden his students' horizons, but instead it is his own worldview that is challenged. Through tragedy and triumph, by questioning the very core of his being, he manages to escape the confines of his "marble room" and gain a new understanding of himself and God.

Book Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival

Download or read book Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival written by Derek R. Peterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with East Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community. The book traces the history of the East African Revival, an evangelical movement that spread through much of eastern and central Africa. Its converts offered a subversive reading of culture, disavowing their compatriots and disregarding their obligations to kin. They earned the ire of East Africa's patriots, who worked to root people in place as inheritors of ancestral wisdom. This book casts religious conversion in a new light: not as an inward reorientation of belief, but as a political action that opened up novel paths of self-narration and unsettled the inventions of tradition.

Book Anatomy of an African Kingdom

Download or read book Anatomy of an African Kingdom written by John W. Nyakatura and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book East African Doctors

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  • Author : John Iliffe
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-08-27
  • ISBN : 9780521632720
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book East African Doctors written by John Iliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Iliffe's 1998 book is a history of the African medical profession in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania from the earliest training of modern medical staff in the 1870s to the present day. Based on extensive research, and dealing exclusively with African doctors, it offers an understanding of professionalisation in the Third World. It describes the recruitment and education of doctors, their understanding and practice of modern medicine, the struggle for international recognition of their qualifications and efforts to develop East African medical systems after independence, and their experiences during a period of political and economic difficulty. The book ends with an account of the significant work of East African doctors in the study and control of AIDS. This is a major contribution to the social history of Africa and to the social history of medicine more broadly.

Book The Challenges of History and Leadership in Africa

Download or read book The Challenges of History and Leadership in Africa written by Bethwell A. Ogot and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Tanzanians

Download or read book Modern Tanzanians written by John Iliffe and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early History of Kitara in Western Uganda

Download or read book The Early History of Kitara in Western Uganda written by Renee Louise Tantala and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community based Heritage in Africa

Download or read book Community based Heritage in Africa written by Peter R. Schmidt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects. Schmidt explores how and why local research initiatives, which are often motivated by rapid culture change caused by globalization, arose among the Haya people of western Tanzania. This frank appraisal privileges local voices and focuses attention on the unique and important contributions that such projects can make to the preservation of regional history. Through a blend of personalized narrative and analytical examination, the book provides fresh insights into African archaeology and heritage studies.

Book Publication

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: