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The American Historical Review, 2009
Prior to the 1980s, historians of Africa rarely paid explicit attention to sexuality, a topic generally presumed to belong more appropriately to anthropology or psy chology. Moreover, when the topic did come up, authors across the disciplines com monly assumed or asserted an African ("native," customary, tribal, or premodern) sexuality, in the singular
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Prior to the 1980s, historians of Africa rarely paid explicit attention to sexuality, a topic generally presumed to belong more appropriately to anthropology or psy chology. Moreover, when the topic did come up, authors across the disciplines com monly assumed or asserted an African ("native," customary, tribal, or premodern) sexuality, in the singular
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The new economic history of Africa*
The Journal of African History, 2009AbstractThe purpose of this article is to promote the revival of African economic history. Poverty, the most pressing issue confronting the continent, has received world-wide publicity in recent years. Yet historians have continued to neglect the history of economic development, which is central to the study of poverty, in favour of themes that have ...
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History of psychiatry in West Africa
International Review of Psychiatry, 2006This paper explores the social context of the development of mental asylums in colonial Nigeria. The characteristics of the medical leadership is described, as is the environmental condition of the asylums. The colonial period produced conceptualizations of the African mind and of the pattern and distribution of mental illness in Africans.
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A history of aluminium in South Africa
Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium, 2019La production africaine de l’aluminium repose essentiellement (71 %) sur l’Afrique du Sud et la filiale mozambicaine de l’entreprise South32. Ce développement de l’aluminium en Afrique du Sud est assez paradoxal. L’offre initiale de surplus d’électricité s’est évanouie du fait de la hausse de la consommation domestique d’électricité et des difficultés ...
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A celebration of Book History in Africa
English in Africa, 2009No Abstract. English in Africa Vol. 35 (1) 2008: pp.
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Africanist History and the History of Africa
1984Africans have been conceptualising their lives and social relationships historically since the advent of agriculture and stockherding gave importance to questions of origin, genealogy and property long centuries ago. As state mechanisms and class contradictions evolved in many parts of the continent, historical interpretation became increasingly ...
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Mission History in Africa: New Perspectives on an Encounter
African Studies Review, 1976In recent years, the study of mission history has achieved a remarkable vitality, partly owing to the ready availability of material but deriving more fundamentally from a growing integration with the major thrusts of contemporary African historiography. It would seem appropriate at this point to attempt a “progress report” on these accomplishments and
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The United States and Africa: A History
The American Historical Review, 1986Edmond Orban, Peter Duignan, L. H. Gann
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1996
James McCann, Kevin Shillington
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James McCann, Kevin Shillington
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