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The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, pre-industrial society: The case of the Cape Colony [PDF]
One reason for the relatively poor development performance of many countries around the world today may be the high levels of inequality during and after colonisation.
Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 72-90, March 2025.Abstract This article explores how European travellers to Africa perceived African masculinity, the male body and sexuality during the period of 1450–1730. It argues that their observations helped Europeans construct early notions of racial difference at a time when skin colour was not the most important marker of difference classifying people.
Sergio Lussana
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GenealogyBuried in 1858, Cornelis Kok II’s grave lay undisturbed in Campbell, Northern Cape, until 1961 when a multiracial coalition, driven by their own sets of interests, unearthed the Griqua leader’s remains. The bones again took centre stage with the collapse
Richard Levi Raber, David Morris
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The Complexly Parcellated, Yet Quantitatively Reduced, Orexinergic/Hypocretinergic System of Humans
Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 533, Issue 2, February 2025.Immunohistochemical staining for orexin‐A reveals the novel parvocellular orexinergic neuronal cluster (left) in the human brain. In comparison to the more typically observed orexinergic neurons of the main cluster (right), the parvocellular neurons have much smaller soma. Scale bar = 100 µm, applies to both images.
Illke B. Malungo +6 more
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The “Decolonizing” of Knowledge: A New Perspective on the Cape’s Storytelling (Review)
Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наукReview of the book: Bam J. (2021). Ausi Told Me: Why Cape Herstoriographies Matter. Auckland Park: Jacana Media. 312 p.
Turianitsa Daria
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Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 35-53, February 2025.Abstract This article explores how settler self‐government and written constitutions provoked questions about the responsibilities towards Indigenous peoples and the role of British parliament in the imperial constitution. It traces how British and settler commentators drew connections between colonies in their responses to Indigenous and humanitarian ...
Alex Martinborough
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Prologue to capitalism, free enterprise and black entrepreneurship: A comparative history of black business in the United States and South Africa [PDF]
, 1995 African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 2 October 1995The agency of blacks in forging their own economic liberation through entrepreneurship and business enterprise has been generally ignored in the historical literature. In this two-part paper,
Walker, Juliet E. K.
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Peripheral people and places: an archaeologyof isolation [PDF]
, 2009 This chapter explores the creation of a narrative of ‘isolation’ between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on the presentation of rural communities in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as passive and isolated from the cut and thrust ...
Emma Dwyer
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Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 73-88, February 2025.Abstract Black British subjects were made in and by empire in South Africa. They both expressed loyalty and belief in the idea of empire – embracing arch‐imperialist Cecil Rhodes’ 1898 campaign promise of ‘equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambesi’ – and criticised brutality and injustice as failures of its promises.
Charles V. Reed
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The Supernatural’s Role in the Juxtaposition of the Ideas of Modernity, Traditionalism and Identity in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness [PDF]
, 2014 The supernatural is an entity found in many African literary texts as it is an important part of the African cultural fabric that informs and shapes the African way of life.
Mzileni, Thabo Lucky
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