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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"African nationalism"”.
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African nationalism in Tanganyika
… political autonomy within a decade of organized African nationalism. July 7, 1954, was a historical day for it was then when the Tanganyika African National Union (T.A.N.U.) was born in Der es Zalasa, the country’s capital, with Julius K. Nyerere as president. From that day one, T.A.N.U. has …
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Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
My study begins by looking at the ways in which ZK Matthews has been remembered. I raise questions about his legacy in the post-apartheid period, in relation to the limited ways in which he has been studied and in relation to the broader politics of memory. What follows this is an analysis of ZK�s …
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Hugh Archibald Wyndham : his life and times in South Africa, 1901-1923
… These years, marked by the creation of the South African state, the forging of an exclusive, white, South African nationalism and, increasingly, by conflict among her peoples, is the core of what seems to be a coherent historical period extending from approximately 1800 to 1950.
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An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry
… to examine the link between creative writing and nationalism, which is the context in which creativity takes place, an attempt is made to outline major trends in nationalist history vis-a-vis colonialism. Having set the background for analysis, the research focuses on texts that are published in …
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The philatelic imagination of pan-African independence under platform capitalism
… the prospective ambition of the mid-century African political imaginary by delegitimising Kwame Nkrumah’s project of Pan-African nationalism for future generations. Using the media of digital video, installation, bookwork and digital animation, the four works adopt the artistic methodology of …
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An analysis of the land issue as portrayed in selected novels by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… a bone of contention between white settlers and Africans in Kenya and paying particular attention to how land appropriation affected African culture and tradition. It is hoped that at the end it should be clear that land has great significance to Africans, a fact borne out by several critics …
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Economic nationalism : a historical perspective on economic empowerment in South Africa with special reference to aspects of the manifestation of Black Economic Empowerment
… the economic empowerment strategies of Afrikaner nationalism in order to root discussion around Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment within a context of economic nationalism. This approach avoids narrow critiques of BEE as affirmative action and provides a fresh historical perspective to the …
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'If We Govern Ourselves, Whose Son is to Govern Us?': Youth, Independence and the 1960s in Lesotho
… coming with independence. This work rethinks African nationalism, seeing a wider range of people willing and able to identify with a national ideal than previous works that focus mainly on political parties have found. It also complicates the question of international boundaries, with many …
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Contribution of Kapasa Makasa to Zambia's political history from 1947 to 1991
Many studies exist on the rise and and growth of African nationalism in Zambia. They include autobiographies and biographies by and on politicians who participated in the struggle for independence. However, several veteran politicians who pioneered the independence struggle have not attracted …
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Urban apartheid and African responses : aspects of life in Mamelodi township, 1953-1990
… lives. It also challenges the idea that the African response to urban apartheid was limited to political struggles. It argues that forms of struggles went beyond social, economic and political ones, to challenge all the facets of urban apartheid. From 1953, Mamelodi residents realised the …
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Beyond the "Baartman Trope": representations of black women's bodies from early South African proto-nationalisms to postapartheid nationalisms
… I argue not only that contemporary South African nationalism is imagined through gendered tropes, but also that the intersecting tropes of gender, race and sexuality which underlie postapartheid nation-building discourses propagate many of the same stereotypes about black women’s sexuality …
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The Expansion of Higher Education for Kenyans, With Special Emphasis on Women, From 1959--1969
… Kenyan politician, garnered 81 scholarships for Africans to attend over 40 colleges and universities in the U.S. (the largest to ever study at one time). In 1960, he received over 320 more to an additional 60 higher U.S. educational institutions. The 1959 and 1960 Airlifts, as they are called, …
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'Perceptions of the 'red peril'' : the National Party's changing portrayal of the 'communist threat' c.1985 - February 1990
… was frequently allied with the threat of African nationalism in National Party discourse during the apartheid era. The alliance between the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, and the Soviet's role in supporting various governments and opposition movements on …
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"Ungadinwa Nangomso - don't get tired tomorrow" : a history of the Black Sash advice office in Cape Town 1968 to 1980
… which had a membership limited to white South African women voters, was challenged by a group of women Tram its Western Cape Region who wished to transform the aims and objectives of the organisation. Under the leadership of these women, the organisation initiated contact with Africans in Cape …
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King Dingane : a treacherous tyrant or an African nationalist?
… instead, not be regarded as the forerunner of African nationalism. It also examines the roots of European imperialism in South Africa, as recorded in governmental, geographical, trade and missionary records, and points out that, as with the first colonial invasion by Islam that resulted in the …
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The negative effects of the liberals' usurpation of th Green Movement : a study in the demise of the liberal paradigm
… thesis highlights the weaknesses of the South African liberal movement in so far as the environment is concerned. Cherished largely by the English liberalism in South Africa, it tended to challenge the Afrikaner rulers as a racial group. In such racially dominated contestations, ideology tends …