African Studies
African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's history (Pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography (ethnic groups), culture, politics, economy, languages, and religion (Islam, Christianity, traditional religions). A specialist in African studies is often referred to as an "africanist". A key focus of the discipline is to interrogate epistemological approaches, theories and methods in traditional disciplines using a critical lens that inserts African-centred ways of knowing and references. Africanists argue that there is a need to "deexoticize" Africa and banalise it, rather …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …
51, No. 4 (2008), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Department of Development Studies, …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 2021 English
Making and Unmaking of Isoka. Mark Hunter ... so by attempting to chart in KwaZulu-Natal the rise and fall of the isoka masculinity. ... associate manhood with multiple concurrent sexual …
also addressing this question in a future African Studies history seminar, University of Natal, May 28 … Goldmines, 1900-1950”. Journal of Southern African Studies. 24 (4). Breckenridge, K. (1999). “Love letters … Africa, 1900-1933.” Paper presented to the African Studies History Seminar, University of Natal, 10/11/99 … Johannesburg, 1920-1960. Paper to the History and African Studies Seminar Series, University of Natal. December … South Africa: a Historical Perspective,” African Studies, 61 (1): 27-54. Dlamini, C. R. M. (1984). …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 March 2021 English
Its author is Murali Shanmugavelan – senior teaching fellow at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.Caste – an ancient form of social discrimination in South Asia – continues …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
At head of title: CEEW, The Council, Shell Foundation, UK Government. "Sewa Bharat, All India Federation of Self-Employed Women's Association; Jagruti Visual Yatra." Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-57). Description based …
studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a postgraduate diploma in rural …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 8 July 2020 English
Crime, murder, masters, mistresses, Indian domestic servants
Scare of the 1870s,’ in Journal of Southern African Studies, 15, 1988, 36-53; Jeremy C. Martens. ‘“Foul … University of Natal, Durban: History and African Studies Seminar, 11th August 1999; Jeremy C. Martens … Rape Scare of 1886,’ in Journal of Southern African Studies, 28:2, June 2002, 379-400; J. Pape. ‘Black … Colonial Zimbabwe,’ in Journal of Southern African Studies, 16:4, December 1990, 699-720. 17 See L. Davidoff … Rape Scare of 1886,” in Journal of Southern African Studies, 28:2, June 2002, 379-400, and Robert Morrell …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 3 July 2020 English
Indenture, Indians, Natal, Race, Suicide, Black and White, Colonial state, Taboo
Natal', (paper presented at the History and African Studies Seminar, University of Natal, Durban, 30 August … 1908-1929', (paper presented at the History and African Studies Seminar, University of Natal, Durban, 4 October … the Cape, 1891-1920', in Journal of Southern African Studies, 21, 3 (1995); 'Changing Diagnoses in Valkenberg … the Colonial Period' in Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.9, no.2 (April 1983). 6 Especially her … or Suicide of Revenge among Africans', in African Studies, vol.xi, no. 3, 1952: pp.118-122. Quoted in …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 28 May 2020 English
How are you? I've been so neglectful with correspondence. Autumn always is a frenetic time for those attached to northern hemisphere academic institutions. Our years go from September to September.
all unlikely places, Columbus, Ohio. The African Studies Meetings will be hosted there by Ohio State … the meetings. This is the year tha t the African Studies librarians are having a major convocation …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 28 April 2020 English
In its summary for the month of November 1860, The Natal Mercury noted that the news was principally confined to one topic. During the month an important change has taken …
Queensland, 1860-1914" Paper presented at African Studies Seminar, University of the Witwatersrand (1979) …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 23 April 2020 English
Collection of newspaper articles related to the Arrival on Indenture Indians in Natal....
• November 20: Joe Beall, lec· turer in African Studies at the University of Natal, will speak on …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 3 April 2020 English
World's Religions A Global Congress after September 11
Zoroastrian Studies School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK Harold Kasimow, Ph.D. Grinnell …
