Chapter 48: Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing …

Massive displacements, forced labor migration, and large-scale resettlements ordered by colonial states, but also internal and transnational migration, have stimulated specific forms of homemaking in urban and rural regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter first briefly scrutinizes earlier forms of housebuilding and migration in colonial African contexts that let to various forms of s…

Chapter 4 What Future Remains? Remembering an African Place of Science

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Federal systems of governance in Africa

Federalism as a mode of governance has been a popular response to most conflicts which stemmed from ethnic/language/religious mobilisation. However, the track record of resolving communal or identity conflicts has not always been good, the least of all in Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan.

Chapter 1 Sailing on Cold War Tides

Africa, Cape of Good Hope, maritime security, naval history, piracy, Suez Canal

Chapter 4 Globalisation, mobility and labour in African diasporic fiction

This chapter addresses the entanglement of mobility and labour in the global era, and suggests potential ways to study these issues in contemporary African diasporic fiction.

Chapter 1 Law and record keeping

African countries; law; record keeping; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLC Library, archive and information management; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Mu…

Chapter 1 Introduction: Seek Ye Epistemic Freedom First

Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displa…

Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mi…

Since the turn of the century, low-income African countries have undergone a process of mining industrialization led by transnational corporations. The process has been sustained by an African Mining Consensus uniting international financial institutions, African governments, development agencies, and various strands of the academic literature. The Consensus position is that mining industrializ…

History of South African Literature: Afrikaans Literature, A

Literary history is a problematic and shifting discourse, especially in the multilingual, post-colonial South African situation. In this book, the author draws on his intimate knowledge of documents written in Dutch during the 17th century and the texts that were produced in this language and its variations as it gradually became Afrikaans by the end of the 19th century. A History of South Afri…

Bhengu: Reflections of South African Student Lea

Reflections of South African Student Leaders 1994-2017 brings together the reflections of twelve former SRC leaders from across the landscape of South African universities. Reviews of the previous volume, 1981-2014 suggested that it contributed significantly to a better understanding of the stringent demands of visionary and transformative leadership required by university leaders in the fastch…