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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"DT Africa"”.
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Hieratic Ostraca of the Rameside period in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo: documentation, classification and commentary
We have dealt in this dissertation with 31 ostraca from the Valley of the Kings with various texts. They all attribute to Th. Davis and Carter/ Carnarvon’s excavations. They can classify into administrative, literary, Funny-signs and few jar labels. Coordinated minor institutions may have probably …
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A modern history of monetary and financial systems of Congo 1885-1995
This thesis addresses the modern history of money and finance in Congo from 1885 to 1995, against a background of pre-colonial traditional monetary practices observed since the 15th century and still in use today in some regions of the Congo basin within the current Democratic Republic of the …
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Egyptian imperialism in Nubia c. 2009 – 1191 BC
This dissertation focuses on the changing nature of Ancient Egyptian involvement in Nubia from the Middle Kingdom to the 20th Dynasty (2009 – 1191 BC). Recent advances in our knowledge of both Egyptian and Nubian urbanism have contributed to the overall conclusion regarding the purpose of Egyptian …
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The civil war revival and its Pentecostal progeny: a religious movement among the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria
This thesis is a study of a Christian movement among the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria from its origins in the Civil War Revival (1967-73) to the present. It argues that the success of the revival depended upon a balance between supply and demand. Colonial legacies, Western missionary endeavours, …
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Late period stelae from Saqqara. A socio-cultural and religious investigation
The purpose of this investigation is to analyse a coherent corpus of stelae from the site of Saqqara from the Late Period in order to extract socio-cultural and religious information about the people who dedicated them. This includes information on onomastics, titles and human iconography and …
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Walking the Rift: Alfred Robert Tucker in East Africa, idealism and imperialism, 1890 – 1911
… the old paradigms of Western expansion and African victimization are being called for by scholars of both North and South; narratives which allow room for strong archival evidence of an egalitarian joint endeavor and African cultural vitality without avoiding the investment in imperialism …
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Masters of difference : Creolization and the Jewish presence in Cabo Verde, 1497-1672
… in the Atlantic world from Sephardim to Africans, ensuring that the cristãos novos of Cabo Verde were, indeed, masters of difference. It is argued that the cristãos novos’ doubleness of identity facilitated their success in Cabo Verde, where protean cultural identities emerged. As a …
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
This thesis maps representations of African-based belief systems in the United States during two pivotal moments in the twentieth century – the Harlem Renaissance and the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and engaging with literary studies, history, and …
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Public sector trade union response to change in South Africa: a case study of the South African municipal workers union (SAMWU) in the Western Cape (1992-97)
… sector trade unions and the government in South Africa from 1992-7. The research is located in debates concerning the ANC government's endorsement of the 'free-market 1 economy in the post apartheid period. The Marxist method of historical materialism is used to explain the changing relationship …
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Christian virtue in a West African context : a study of the interaction and synthesis of the methodist and Fanti moral traditions as a model for the contextualisation of Christian Ethics
… begins with the contention that morality in African cultures may be better understood as discrete traditions in the light of MacIntyre’s model. This claim is substantiated by a reconstruction of the Fanti (Akan) moral tradition in terms of its practices, virtues and ends. A detailed …
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The institutionalisation of urban upgrading processes and community participation in Egypt
A conceptual framework, 'accountable bureaucratic capacity' is utilised to investigate the ability of local government to institutionalise collaborative urban upgrading measures in partnership with civil society organisations. The main argument is that the latter cannot contribute to sustainable …
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The Rhodesian crisis in British and international politics, 1964-1965
This thesis uses evidence from British and international archives to examine the events leading up to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on 11 November 1965 from the perspectives of Britain, the Old Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), and the United States. Two …
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The role of urban design in South African corridor development
The joyous advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994 brought real promise of an improvement in the life chances for millions of marginalised South Africans. There was reason for many citizens to have great faith in the new order after decades of sustained struggle. Effective state intervention …
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Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism
"Sayling, Stories from the Mothership" is a collection of ethnographic fictions – short stories – adapted from notes, archival materials, and interviews compiled over a year of geographic fieldwork in southwestern Nigeria. Touching on a wide range of themes, from domesticity to internet fraud, the …
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A critical study of Christian-Muslim relations in the central region of Ghana with special reference to traditional Akan values
This work studies Christian-Muslim relations in Ghana with special reference to the role of traditional Akan culture. It identifies and examines religious and cultural practices of the Akan people of Ghana that continue to exert strong influence on the people in the wake of the upsurge of …
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Towards a re-reading of Colossians from an African American postcolonial perspective
… between the 1st century readers and the enslaved Africans who lived on the continent of North America who were later exposed to concepts that stemmed from the letter. In viewing the identities of both groups the most damaging find was the derogatory labels placed on them. This thesis, an African …
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Gender, migration and rural livelihoods in Ghana: a case of the Ho district
This thesis seeks to examine the interrelationships between gender, migration and rural livelihoods in Ghana. The central argument of the study is that policy making on migration and livelihood, tends to ignore gender as a critical issue in development planning. The study suggests that effective …
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Searching for a middleground in children’s rights: the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Ghana
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, is the world’s most widely and rapidly ratified international convention. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have an enormously positive impact on all children, this has not …
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The use of scripture in Swahili tracts by Muslims and Christians in East Africa
… scripture in tracts published in Swahili in East Africa. The use of tracts for the propagation of religion is introduced through the work of Tract Societies in Britain and the use of Christian tracts in overseas missions. Printing in Arabic and the propagation of Islam through tracts is surveyed. …
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Royal images in private tombs at Thebes in the early Ramesside period
Cultural memory is a relatively new area of study within Egyptology. It is, however, a key issue in the understanding of how society functioned. Important work has been done by scholars such as Assmann on the subject and this study hopes to build on that by taking the case of depictions of kings in …
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