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A modern history of Tanganyika

Abstract: List of maps and tables Preface Acknowledgements Terminology Abbreviations 1. Intentions 2. Tanganyika in 1800 3. The nineteenth century 4. The German conquest 5. Colonial economy and ecological crisis, 1890-1914 6. The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905-7 7. Religious and cultural change before 1914 8. Fortunes of war 9. The origins of rural capitalism 10. The creation of tribes 11. The crisis of colonial society, 1929-45 12. Townsmen and workers 13. The African Association, 1929-48 14. The new colonialism 15. The new politics, 1945-55 16. The nationalist victory, 1955-61 Bibliography Index.

The problem of slavery in african studies

Abstract: In the past few years the study of slavery in different parts of Africa has been transformed from a neglected subject to one of the most fashionable.1 The volume and quality of empirical work makes it both possible and essential for new conceptual approaches to be developed, yet current syntheses and the questions most of the local studies are asking reflect weaknesses in the theoretical basis of the social sciences, as well as a peculiar anxiety about the subject of slavery itself. Moreover, Africanists have profited little from two decades of extensive research and debate on slavery in the Americas. By and large, Africanists and Americanists are studying slavery in isolation from one another, venturing into the others' territory only to make a point about their own. Americanists have found African slavery to be a conveniently benign foil against which the exploitation and degradation of American slavery stand out. Africanists have been anxious to dissociate slavery in Africa from its bad image in the Americas.2 Eager to call attention to the achievements of African kings and entrepreneurs, scholars have often refused to face the question of whether in Africa, as in most of the world, the concentration of wealth and power also meant exploitation and subordination. David Brion Davis has argued that in Western culture slavery has always posed a moral problem, a set of contradictions stemming from the duality of the slave as property and yet a person, as a living part of a society and yet an outsider. But the problem needed to be solved only after the development of capitalism, when it became necessary to understand and justify a new economic order, in which the complex rights in land of cultivators and the complex relations of subordination and reciprocity that they had had with their lords were transformed into private property and a market in labour power. The architects of the new economic framework, the political economists, and of the new moral order, the humanitarians, came to define slavery as a 'peculiar institution', both archaic and evil, and wage labour as no system at all, but simply the workings of the universal and self-propelling laws of the market, freed of the constraints of the tyranny and paternalism of the lord.3 For all the subsequent development of the social sciences,

A History of African Christianity 1950-1975

Abstract: The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world Church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Capital restructuring and the modification of the racial division of labour in South Africa

Abstract: (1979). Capital restructuring and the modification of the racial division of labour in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 181-198.

White Presence and Power in Africa

Abstract: The articles in this special issue are revised versions of papers delivered in September 1978 at the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom conference on ‘Whites in Africa – Past, Present and Future’. The choice of conference topic aroused some controversy. Addressing himself to the ‘Pink ASAUK’, one correspondent enclosed a cutting from West Africa in which news of the forthcoming conference was ominously included on the same page as a report on ‘Freetown's Rubbish Plan’. The writer made two points: ‘Human beings are citizens, not colours or numbers as your hollow minds suggest’; ‘Now that Africa is nearly free from imperialism and exploitation…dishonest intellectuals from British universities are conspiring to draw a new map of Africa.’

development strategy in kenya since 1971

Abstract: (1979). development strategy in kenya since 1971. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 13, No. 1-2, pp. 295-320.

Problems of Socialist Orientation in Africa

Abstract: Papers from a Seminar on Non-capitalist Development in Africa Organised by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, in Co-operation with the Institute of Development Studies, Helsink ...

Africa's dependency and the remedies: the 4th International Congress of African Studies.

Abstract: Papers delivered at the 4th International Congress of African Studies (ICAS) subcategorized dependency into its cultural military and political aspects. At the end of the conference a series of resolutions was adopted. The author lists 8 resolutions under problems of economic and technological dependency and 28 under the problem of cultural dependency. Of these 5 referred to linguistic and 4 to philosophical and ideological dependency 3 to dependency in education and 5 to the problems of political dependency. The author reports that delegates at the Congress also considered the question of the responsibility of African intellectuals to influence the direction of political events in Africa. Acting as a pressure group upon the Organization of African Unity (OAU) from which ICAS receives some financial support was one of the ways proposed. The following is a random selection of some of the resolutions adopted by the 4th ICAS: 1) That capital-intensive imported technology aggravates dependency structures in Africa and greater effort should be made to select those technologies that promote the rational use of Africas human and material resources 2) That steps be taken to make African schools and universities more responsive to African cultures and more relevant to African needs without abandoning the principle of universalism in science scholarship and art and 3) That the liberation of Southern Africa is a precondition of the liberation of the African continent as a whole.

A Modern History of Tanganyika: The Maji Maji rebellion, 1905–7

Abstract: Outbreak On a morning late in July 1905 the men of Nandete climbed a path towards a field of ripening cotton which they had cultivated. When they reached it their leaders, Ngulumbalyo Mandai and Lindimyo Machela, stepped forward and pulled three plants out of the ground. They did this in order to declare war on the German Empire. The Maji Maji rebellion was an explosion of African hatred of European rule. It was a final attempt by Tanganyika's old societies to destroy the colonial order by force, and its failure made the passing of the old societies inevitable. It is therefore a last opportunity to study the workings of those societies amidst an incomparably vivid crisis for which there exists detailed evidence unmatched for earlier periods or other parts of Africa. The rebellion began among the stateless peoples of the south-east and extended to the newly created states of the Southern Highlands. It took place at the moment of transition from the nineteenth-century economy to the colonial order and it began as a movement of highlanders and frontiersmen resisting incorporation into the colonial economy and reduction to peasant status. To uproot cotton was therefore an apt ultimatum. To the men of Nandete, in the Matumbi highlands north-west of Kilwa, cotton symbolised the foreign penetration and control which had followed defeat in the ‘war of the pumpkins’ seven years earlier.

Directory of current research on Southern Africa

Abstract: This directory is a revision and updating of two earlier publications issued in limited numbers in xerox form, "A Select Register of Current and Recently Completed Research on South Africa in the Humanities and Social Sciences," (New Haven, CT, 1977) and "Inventory of Current Research on Southern Africa" (2nd Preliminary version. New Haven, CT, 1977. Plus "Supplement," Jan. 1978). The initial compilation was carried out by several Yale graduate students, notably Margaret Kinsman, Diana Wylie, and Charles Ambler. Charles Fineman, now of the University of California-Santa Cruz, prepared the earlier versions. Barbara Lamb, a University of Essex (England) doctoral candidate, did the final checking for this new version. The earlier work is funded by the now defunct Southern African Research Archival Project (SARAP) of which Prof. Gwendolen M. Carter was convenor. Preliminary data were collected at a workshop on research on South Africa held at Indiana University in April, 1976. Prof. Ann Seidman of Clark University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, together with Mrs. Rose Seidman, did some of the editorial work for the earlier versions. This version was funded with a small grant from the African Studies Association Committee on Current Issues and by the Yale-Wesleyan Southern African Research Program. In order to reduce the length of the Directory I omitted the Zambian section, and most entries for research in linguistics, literature, anthropology, archeology, ecology, agriculture, and biological sciences. Incomplete entries and references to

The Malay press during the great depression

Abstract: (1979). The Malay press during the great depression. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 7, No. 19, pp. 21-25.