...This chapter places the history of the East African slave trade and the growth of the African diaspora in eastern Arabia in global context. By following the lives of enslaved Africans from the moment of their capture in East Africa through their passage across the Indian Ocean to destinations...

... all that is fundamental to the African American experience in preslavery Africa and in those aspects of African culture that survived in South Carolina. Civil War Dwight Ed McNair Robert E monument to Columbia SC Palmetto Regiment Monument Columbia SC Reconstruction Sims J Marion monument...

... armed forces. At the same time, however, there was greater continuity with the Habsburg past than is usually acknowledged by historians. The book also questions the current preoccupations with the Atlantic world, emphasising Philip V’s ambitions–and success–in the Mediterranean, Italy and north Africa...

... and appallingly impoverished laboring class, attracting unprecedented levels of capital investment. This chapter explores how London appeared to its guests from South Africa. In 1836, during the week of 20 June to 27 June, Jan Tzatzoe testified for two and a half days before Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton's House...

... was not the Tzatzoe Philip had come to know from a black-and-white engraving. The magnificent oil painting, resplendent in a burnished gold frame, by Room of the London Missionary Society delegation from South Africa has been at Kuruman since 1990, when in a fit of good spirit, the current incarnation of the LMS...

... to embrace American feminism could be attributed to important differences in the two nations' political cultures. It also highlights the importance of the British reformers' concerns for women “enslaved” in “savage” Africa and in the “despotic” Orient, and in the slave plantations of the Caribbean...

...This chapter examines and inspects the habits and practices of the Luo people, a people that live at one of the more important frontiers of Africa, at the edge of the Nilotic language family of east-northeast Africa, and the Bantu of Africa's southern half. Despite living within the same vicinity...

... Luo received far fewer than their portion of the population would justify. It looks at the cultural misunderstandings surrounding finance in rural Africa, particularly the misunderstandings behind attempts to use land as loan collateral in places where personal and family identities revolve around...

... in Africa before discussing its implications for nationalism or internationalism in the region. Africa boundary issues in Berlin Conference 1884–85 Bismarck Otto von border issues in Africa internationalism in Africa nationalism in Albania Congo Democratic Republic of the DRC Belgian Congo Casement...

...This chapter discusses how there was a good deal of confusion about what strategy to follow in defending East Africa. The thinking of the few politicians interested in the subject, and within the regional governments, was flawed, with the dangers misunderstood or overlooked. Successive British...

...This chapter analyzes how the militarization of East Africa increased dramatically during May and June 1940 as British and Commonwealth forces continued to assemble in anticipation of war breaking out with Italy. The policy of ambiguity and confusion which had existed since before the war had led...

... Premindra Singh Bat Victoria Cross xii First World War East Africa Sudanese border British troops Commonwealth troops General Wavell Italians Red Sea United States British shipping The opening shots of the East African offensive actually began on the northern front. The advance...

...This chapter considers the final element of General Wavell's grand plan: providing support for the rebellion in Ethiopia. What this did was to open up a third front in the war for Italian East Africa, as mobile attacks on isolated posts and ambushes along the main routes helped to create “a deep...

... fought in East Africa began on November 27 as artillery opened fire on the main Dalflecha Ridge which, along with the plateau at Maldiba, was the principal target of the attack. Cunningham General Sir Alan Greece Platt Major General William Wavell Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Western Desert...

... and Africans in colonial East Africa and in South Africa. The most readily accessible answer to why this was so was race. These populations were either racially susceptible or virgin soil for tuberculosis. However, these explanations were offered with the benefit of almost no research to support them. Active...

... environments), including a “pro-active” calculus of how to assess and implement successful (or failed) responses in the, often remote, past. The Mande of arid West Africa (including the Sahel) live with precipitation and fluvialregimes that are arguably the least predictable in the world. Our understanding...

... and knowledge of them. His extraordinary expertise began in the well-established vernacular birding and hunting traditions of south central Africa, but he also developed ornithological skills. As C.W. Benson's collector, Makawa learned to prepare the skins for their afterlife as specimens. In working...

... examines two moments in the history of the culture concept as applied to West Africa. First, a moment during the process of the concept's formation in the mid-nineteenth century; second, a moment in the 1950s that revealed the political limits of appeals to culture. Juxtaposing the lives of Edward Wilmot...

...This chapter examines the history of Jews' preeminence as feather buyers in the Western Cape, South Africa, and investigates how Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire come to dominate the lucrative South African ostrich feather trade. It also explores how the work of these feather merchants...

...This chapter discusses the rise of unemployment in South Africa in the late apartheid era. It examines existing data about unemployment, identifying the major causes of its growth in the mid- to late 1970s. It describes how high and open unemployment became apparent from the early 1970s onwards...