Knowledge Commons | African History | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/ Activity feed for the group, African History. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:29:14 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0b7095acc0e4c5dc22399460c972e195 Kerem Duymus deposited Afroglobale Geschichte der Gegenwart (Beiträge zur Theorie der Globalgeschichte) in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902203/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:20 -0400 Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

]]> 0 45716ce9e8e47173bc25e19816fad811 Kerem Duymus deposited Tadbir as Marine Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction in Practice and the Debate of Piracy in Case of Tripoli between 1790s-1835 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901428/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:56 -0400 The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

]]> 0 affa5a73d1612b57203c826cc458e6e0 Kerem Duymus deposited The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901180/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:19 -0400 Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 5949180f93d5090070a5916d673d5909 Kerem Duymus deposited 1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901177/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:07 -0400 Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 b75b01de485856df0496f1dcef39f5a6 Kerem Duymus deposited Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901174/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:02:52 -0400 African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c012a16771aaad44c5c0aeeeef990111 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896782/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cb284316dca8c390ab7dcbf720d7f88 Karina Sembe deposited On the Brink of Sovereignty: Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas and Vernacular Agency in the Colonial Atlantic in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896639/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:48 -0400 Marronage is often treated in academic discussions as a compelling example of resistance, a type of agency that has a definitive insurgent impulse. This approach makes the study of maroons vulnerable to ideological taint because it can downplay the full complexity with which slave rebels and free people of color achieved social mobility and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8735170ed4786411e06653d0c9937a1b Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum African History https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-2/#post-88126 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:07:15 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

]]> b8d45e35d5070814789905277a0b65b8 Frédérick Madore deposited Exister en contexte autoritaire : les associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques à l'Université de Lomé sous Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 1970–2005 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882908/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:00:35 -0400 Ce chapitre examine l’histoire des mouvements étudiants à caractère religieux sur le campus de l’Université de Lomé au Togo de la création de l’établissement en 1970 jusqu’au décès du président Gnassingbé Eyadéma en 2005. Dans un premier temps, il analyse comment des associations étudiantes chrétiennes et islamiques ont pu se structurer et se déve…[Read more]

]]> 0 775ecc0a21bd040e794be91a6fb4362d Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion African History https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-2/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:43:03 -0500 CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

 

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did…[Read more]

]]> 015e6666970eefc0527fb01d40caf134 Duncan Money deposited ‘Daisyfield in the crucible’: Afrikaners, education and poor whites in Southern Rhodesia, 1911–1948 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862927/ Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:00:17 -0400 This article examines the history of Daisyfield School, an Afrikaner children's orphanage and school in Southern Rhodesia. The existence of an Afrikaner school in a self-consciously British settler colony represented a distinctive settler project within the settler state, one supported by the school’s transnational connections and one whose aims o…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ca78f77646a5285a52cf7226e620012 Duncan Money deposited Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845941/ Fri, 12 May 2023 02:23:39 -0400 In January 2004, residents of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, were treated to a disturbing sight. Over 200 members of the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy party marched through the streets of the capital carrying a mock coffin bearing the name of Roy Clarke, a prominent newspaper satirist and white British national who had been a permanent r…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d671dd125c741825818f375870cbe4e John Aerni-Flessner deposited A Trasnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho-South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777283/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:33:44 -0400 Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This art…[Read more]

]]> 0 444ab92d22d4e122bd9796012e8bf7c4 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Bargaining with Land: Borders, Bantustans, and Sovereignty in 1970s and 1980s Southern Africa in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1762127/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 02:24:35 -0500 ‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fb7ebf4778526ecd911949dbcc8ae92 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749986/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:24:19 -0400 In this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b1868761d5a398960e988d8adabe5e9 Duncan Money deposited ‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741443/ Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:25:53 -0400 A little-known feature of the vast migrant labour system that supplied South Africa’s gold-mining industry was the Deferred Pay Interest Fund. For much of the 20th century, a portion of the wages owed to African mine workers was deferred and remitted to them only at the end of their contracts. This is well-known, but what happened to the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 26d9c87e9af529687514ef281bbffd4b Duncan Money deposited Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White mineworkers in comparative perspective, 1911-63 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736099/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Industrial mining on the Central African Copperbelt attracted substantial, if transient, white populations from the outset, though these communities have been treated separately. Many thousands of white traders, prospectors, mineworkers, engineers, general itinerants and would-be settlers were attracted by the copper boom and often spent time…[Read more]

]]> 0 f98bbb8405088b7c04b7754bd9a7744e Duncan Money deposited Africa–EU relations and natural resource governance: understanding African agency in historical and contemporary perspective in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1736098/ Mon, 26 Apr 2021 02:23:38 -0400 This article examines the changing forms of African agency in the context of contestations over natural resource governance with the European Union. The authors argue that EU policy is motivated by material self-interest but that it has not been able to successfully implement these policies. The way these policies have been challenged by African…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff28ead939a27f1691c00d5afcb613ec Samuel Grinsell deposited Mastering the Nile? Confidence and Anxiety in D. S. George’s Photographs of the First Aswan Dam, 1899–1912 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720308/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 02:24:24 -0500 The first Aswan Dam was built at the dawn of the twentieth century and celebrated as a triumph of imperial engineering. Five years after its completion, workers returned to extend the dam. Photographer D. S. George recorded both the building and extension projects for the Egyptian Public Works Department in a series of images that give a unique…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f0454611673c00d6f4a44673239da16 Lloyd Graham deposited A comparison of the anthropomorphic Vodun power-figure (West African bocio/bo/vodu/tro) with its Kongo counterpart (Central African nkisi) in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707584/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:24:18 -0400 This paper compares anthropomorphic power-figures from the Vodun and Kongo cultural areas. Vodun is practised along the Guinea Coast of West Africa (especially in Benin and Togo) whereas the Kongo religion is native to the west coast of Central Africa (especially the two Republics of the Congo and northwest Angola). First, overlaps in belief and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b20ef167c21d9eb60b0c4413922374a7 Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion African History https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/forum/topic/call-for-peer-reviewers-2/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:59:07 -0400 The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.

]]> 2a39ae5b8a447f428e3061e5d357dae6 Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Africa Editor in the discussion African History https://hcommons.org/groups/african-history/forum/topic/call-for-africa-editor-2/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:56:47 -0400 The History of Applied Science and Technology Open Access Textbook editors are seeking an Africanist to join our team.

]]> 9801f54156ec9ceb8f2be1369a85b3c8 Robert Heinze deposited Dialogue between absentees? Liberation radio engages its audiences, Namibia, 1978-1989 in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673771/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Liberation radios, the propaganda stations operated by the anti-Apartheid and anticolonial movements Southern Africa, provide us with a unique lens on the relationship between broadcasters and their audiences. Most importantly, they conceptualized audiences in a specific, two-pronged way to mobilize target populations and influence global media…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b0f3e49f286fc9f99472444b3798170 Terry Carter deposited African American History and Culture Website in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673396/ Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:25:23 -0500 The purpose of this website is to provide readers the opportunity to learn about African American history and culture.

]]> 0 107d3d516754f1acdd81f30ef16f2e7f Robert Heinze deposited “Taxi Pirates”: A comparative history of informal transport in Nairobi and Kinshasa, 1960s –2000s in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643273/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:25:27 -0400 The chapter presents a comparative history of two African cities notorious for the way their informal transport systems are regulated by different actors. It looks at how small private (often unlicensed) transport operators took over public transport in the 1950s and 1960s, their efforts at self-regulating and the efforts of informal workers to…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8adfd8f47936f6be57958265e839a25 Olalekan Adigun deposited A Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Climate Change, Land Disputes, and the Patterns of Farmers/Herdsmen’s Conflicts in Nigeria in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637387/ Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Relying on the Nigeria Watch database and newspaper reports from August 2014 to April 2018, this study analyses the root causes, patterns, and politicisation of the farmers/herdsmen conflicts in Nigeria. This study critically examines the relationship between climate change, land disputes, and the patterns of farmers/ herdsmen conflicts in…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf6a302d1c7a7b7fa3b8c29a0a35d986 Olalekan Adigun deposited People, Power, and Change: Analysing the Causes of Power Shifts in Africa Since the Cold War in the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1598166/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:14:52 -0500 This paper attempts to provide answers to the following questions: What are the causes of political changes in Africa in the 21st century? Are these changes people-led? What are the challenges militating against people-led political changes in Africa? The paper takes a look at the nature of the post-colonial states of Africa since the Cold War…[Read more]

]]> 0 563eb9bba94f330ff108b7f21c89ba4b Samuel Grinsell created the group African History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592893/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:49:48 -0500 0