Anthropologists have become interested in "the colonisation of consciousness", and in the processes by which this colonization has been withstood. While some scholars have examined acts of resistance whose social and ...
In the first half of the twentieth century racist ideology - whether
explicit or implicit - was a vital part of the ideological repetoire by
which white supremacy legitimated itself to itself. At one level this
contention ...
Identity is not a social entity. It is not embodied in
a social individual, or social institutions. It is not,
further, inscribed on the space of language. That is,
language does not create or even contain identity. ...
To study a society from a comparative perspective is rarely a straightforward matter. A series of
strategic decisions regarding topics, time-frames, and angles of observation must be taken before any such project can ...
In order to extend the range of studies of wonen, class and
ideology in southern Africa,2 this paper attempts to
disaggregate the nass of African wonen who lived in colonial
Harare (Salisbury) and other Southern Rhodesian ...
This paper attempts to assess the role of liberal Ideology in capitalist development in South Africa. In Part I we argue that liberal ideology developed historically in a different context and its transplantation from the ...
This paper is an attempt to place in perspective the ideologies which have helped
shape South African Indian politics.
The history of organized Indian politics from the 1880s to the 1940s is mainly the
history of trader ...
The mfecane as fetish:
In the last six years a major controversy has blown up among
historians of southern Africa about the historical reality or
otherwise of the phenomenon commonly known as the mfecane (1).
Since ...
The paper describes various laws and regulations that affect access to public information in two African countries, Uganda and South Africa. It offers some recommendations on how to remedy the situation in both countries.
On the 1st of March, 1914, the biggest British labour demonstration of the early twentieth century flooded into London's Hyde Park in a seven mile long column. Estimates of the size of the crowd ran as high as half a ...