...This chapter focuses on British rule and the notion of Omani marriage in colonial Zanzibar. It explores policy debates in Zanzibar that revolve around marriage registration and descent categories. British officials attempted to garner approval from select Arab elite members in Zanzibar or to adjust...

... assistance cultural assistance British rule French rule foreign policy African past In 1951, Margaret Trowell of the Makerere Art Institute in Uganda visited Kenyan schools with one of her African pupils, Joseph Nitro, to encourage the European settlers to take an interest in her trainees. Richard...

...This chapter details how Burma/Myanmar has been the site of large-scale civil conflict and state repression since its independence in 1948. The period of British rule fostered a new Burman (also called Bamar) nationalism that set itself in opposition to both colonialism and to ethnic minorities...