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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"African History"”.
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The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching
… happening again. International literature on history education and memory studies questions this ‘never again’ imperative, pointing out that remembrance does not necessarily lead to redemption. The aim of this research is to conduct a similar exercise by investigating the following paradox …
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Say It Loud: An Action Research Project Examining the Afrivisual and Africology, Looking for Alternative African American Community College Teaching Strategies
… Afrivisual to help inspire, motivate and empower African American students in gaining a culturally relevant education in Euro-American-centered schools. Using the Afrivisual in this work as an action-oriented tool the researcher sought to expose African American students to an African historical …
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What should be taught in the Zambian secondary school history curriculum: perspectives of teachers, curriculum developers and learners in selected schools of Lusaka district.
… should be taught in the Zambian Secondary School History curriculum content in selected secondary schools in Lusaka district. In this study, the qualitative method was used which employed phenomenology design. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 64 respondents; 1 history curriculum …
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What should be taught in the Zambian secondary school history curriculum: perspectives of teachers, curriculum developers and learners in selected schools of Lusaka district.
… should be taught in the Zambian Secondary School History curriculum content in selected secondary schools in Lusaka district. In this study, the qualitative method was used which employed phenomenology design. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 64 respondents; 1 history curriculum …
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The education of the Indian in Natal,(1860-1947). Volume Two.
… This event marks the birth of a new era in South African history.
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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Postcolonial African Regional Order, 1957-1963
This thesis is a work of International History and an investigation of the birth of inter-African relations from Ghana’s Independence in March 1957 to the establishment in May 1963 of Africa’s first and wholly owned political organisation, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa. The …
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Avian Nation: a cultural and political history of blue cranes in southern Africa, from the precolonial past to present
… population (99.9%) finds themselves within South African borders (and an additional 8-12 individuals in Etosha, Namibia), the species has solidified itself as an important member of the avian kingdom. Over the course of 6 000 years, blue cranes have shared their histories with the humans of …
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A History of the Night in South Africa, 1860s-1980s
… the night as a vantage point to reassess the history of South Africa between the mid-nineteenth and late-twentieth century. It combines methods from cultural and social history, infrastructural studies, and the emerging field of ‘night studies’, to present a new way of understanding the …
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Constructing an alternative language: Historical revision in the fiction of Bessie Head
… of fiction to challenge the hegemony of South African history, a history that fails to represent black South Africans except as "objects of abuse and exploitation" (Head, A Woman Alone 66). The absence of a subject position in history for black South Africans betokens a need for critical …
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Late Ottoman Perspectives on the South African War (1899-1902): the Work of Ismail Kemal Vlora
The South African War of 1899−1902 or Anglo-Boer War was one of the modern examples of propaganda in history. It revealed an enormous agitprop conducted by British and Boer forces. The European and American public closely followed the struggle between the mighty British Empire and the “little white …
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Boundaries and crossing points : children, geography, and identity in Fish Hoek valley
… race in this specific place and time in South African history, to understand which factors promote and obstruct the possibility of diversity and integration in their daily lives. How are they negotiating the landscape, discourse and practice around them? And how do they create and verbalise …
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An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis
… a frontier region at a turbulent time in South African history, so one of the questions about these societies is the extent to which they were homogeneous or heterogeneous - were many outsiders incorporated into these communities? What was the relative importance of herding compared with hunting …
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Meaning of forgiveness: analysing political and sexual violence cases
… social and political theory, and South African history.
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From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study
… reveals the enduring willingness of South African history textbooks to legitimate white supremacy. During the apartheid era, a historiographic mythology bearing the stamp of officialdom was propagated by history textbooks. This mythology constituted the era's "white history" - that version …
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Walter Stanford as an apprentice in politics, 1908-1910 : a study in the representation of the interests of the black peoples of the Cape Colony
… committee appointed to investigate the state of African and Coloured education (1908), and the interim and final reports of the 1910 Cape Native Affairs Commission. I also use Stanford's printed magisterial reports contained in the Cape Native Affairs Blue-Books from 1877 to 1903. In addition, I …
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The history of the clarinet in South Africa
This thesis explores and traces the history of the clarinet in South Africa. After discussing the problems of researching western European music history in South Africa from the arrival of the Dutch in 1652, and briefly summarising that music history up to the first clarinet reference, the thesis …
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Une analyse du thème vérité/mensonge dans Monnè, outrages et defis d'Ahmadou Kourouma
… Ahmadou Kourouma, published in 1990, relates the history of a fictitious Malinke kingdom, Soba, in the north-west Ivory Coast, from pre-colonial times in the late ·nineteenth century to the beginnings of the post-colonial era. One of the aims of the novel is the demystification of some versions of …
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A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)
COSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British …
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LIBERATORY EXPRESSIONS: BLACK WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND THE CODED WORD, AN AFRICOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
… idea of functionality. Aesthetics, throughout African history, and to this day, serve a purpose. The beautiful quilts sewn by enslaved Black women served dual functions, as bed coverings and as symbols of resistance and liberation. The decorative wrought-ironwork found on gates and doors …
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The power of Pan Africanism: Tanzanian/African American linkages, 1947-1997
Reconstruction of the fifty-year Tanzanian/African American relationship from the engagements of Pan-Africanism enhanced through black internationalism exposes the cross-cultural fertilization of Tanzanian nationalism with the US black community’s self identity in the 1960s. By examining the …
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