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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Colonial governments"”.
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Three Instances of Western Colonial Governments and Christian Missions in Cameroon Education: 1884-1961
… comparative education study that revisits colonial education in Cameroon. The purpose of the study is to undertake a broad, documentary, synthetic analysis of the colonial policies of the three formidable Western powers that colonized the country: the Germans (1884-1914), the British …
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"Hammering in the wedges": The political praxis of Harriette Colenso in Zululand and Natal, 1884 to 1913
… political praxis and the rapidly changing colonial political contexts in which she operates, scrutinising her participation in the developing colonial political order, and looks at the ways in which her political activity imaginatively challenged its boundaries. It argues that she thwarted …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… Uganda. The land conflicts, especially in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, are attributed to such factors as the colonial legacy which has contributed to unequal access and conflicting identities. By tracing the conflict from the British colonial period, the thesis contributes to an …
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Machini Kubwa. Group Dancing, Politics, and Modernity in Umatengo, Tanzania
… through the various processes initiated by two colonial governments, the Roman Catholic Church, and Tanganyikan nationalists, significantly, the shift toward a modern worldview, the Wamatengo learned a new way to understand themselves and their surroundings. Much of the Matengo story is lost to …
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The civil-military conflict in British West Florida, 1763-1783
… adequately the impact these disputes had on colonial government in America. The purpose of this thesis is to show that the civil-military disputes disrupted colonial governments, and was one of the forces that led to the breakdown of British rule in North America during the 1760’s and 1770’s.
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‘We wanted to be boss’: Self-determination and Aboriginal multilingual schools
… struggle between Aboriginal people and settler colonial governments: both a site of assimilation and erasure, and simultaneously a site to work against these logics. This thesis investigates this dynamic in three schools between 1972 and 1983, during the first phase of federal policies of …
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The Distribution of Population in the American Colonies in the Revolutionary Period
… population in the American colonies interested colonial governments mainly in order that they might know how heavy the tax levy need be to meet the necessary expenses of the year, and how many soldiers they could count upon in case of Indian attack. The most determined efforts to discover the …
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Allied democratic forces (ADF) in Uganda: A Jihadi- Salafi movement or local political movement in disguise
… marginalisation of Muslims in Uganda by colonial and post-colonial governments, played a significant role in the creation and recruitment strategies for the Movement.
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Under the Shadow of the Regime: The Contradictions of Policing in Sudan, c.1924-1989
… represents the police as servile tools of ruling colonial and post-colonial regimes in Africa and a simple extension of the political executive. It contends that the police cannot be understood as the passive tools of the state, since both colonial and post-colonial states have been highly …
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Opium, the British Empire and the beginnings of an international drugs control regime, ca. 1890-1910
… held at different levels of the imperial and colonial administration. Moral, political and commercial concerns amongst some British groups motivated their commitment to end the India-China opium trade. The British no longer sought to defend their revenues derived from exports of opium from …
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The history of the occupation of land in the Cape Colony and its effect on land law and constitutionally mandated land reform
… Cape Colony by pastoral indigenous communities, colonial governments and non-indigenous settlers, and the significant role these patterns of occupation played in the development of land law in the colony until the end of the nineteenth century. This investigation shows that pastoral indigenous …
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Participatory constitutional reforms vs. realization of equal representation of men and women in the parliaments: a study of Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania
… journal articles and books. Analysis of the colonial and early postcolonial constitutional formations depicts imposition of the constitutions by the colonial governments in consultation with a few African political elites. Generally, the colonial and early post-colonial constitutionmaking …
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The relationship between poverty and rural land use in Nongoma
… from . the land and agricultural policies of the colonial and post-colonial governments. The two major farming systems identified among the peasants are crop raising and livestock grazing. Due to ecological and socio-economic constraints production in both these farming systems is at subsistence …
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Aro mai aro atu: Raising Māori-medium students' academic oral language proficiency
From the early 1860s, colonial governments worked systematically to eradicate the language and culture of the indigenous people of Aotearoa / New Zealand, and, by the late 1960s, the death of the Māori language was being predicted by leading linguists. Māori leaders responded in the 1980s with …
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Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families
… and labor-migration in Southern Africa. Colonial governments used onerous “bioinformational regimes” to subjugate Africans and profit from their labor. Today, former colonial powers deploy similar technologies against descendants of subjugated populations in order to restrict access to …