Pub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1017/s0021853724000082
A. Keese
This study discusses the processes of increasing social malaise and an “oppositional mood” in the Cape Verdean island of Santo Antão, where growing frustration between 1975 and 1990 led to the building of massive political opposition against the single-party regime in the archipelago. Early scrutiny of the shortcomings of independent administration, anger about the installation of a new police force, resettlement schemes, a failed agrarian reform, regime violence to achieve that reform, and a generalised mood of decline in the second half of the 1980s, constitute different elements explaining the unrest in that island. Based on newly available, local archives as an innovative source, the interpretation of a remote Cape Verdean opposition island also addresses the potential of studying opposition against “winning parties” and regimes after independence in wider regional frameworks, referring to discontent and “oppositional mood” elsewhere in postcolonial (Lusophone) Africa.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1017/s0021853724000070
Jacob Dlamini, S. Hassim, Laura Helen Phillips, Chris Saunders, Thula Simpson, Janeke Thumbran, Daniel Magaziner
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African academy and historical professional since the end of formal apartheid in 1994.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1017/s0021853724000033
Harry N. K. Odamtten
The central role of Gold Coast societies, ports, and cities in the emerging Atlantic circuit is critical to understanding the history of the Atlantic world. The study of the causes and effects of Gold Coast societies’ transition from African polities and economies to transatlantic entrepots and trading emporiums and their subsequent impact on the Americas has been the hallmark of Ray Kea's scholarship. Since the beginning of his career, Kea has been a significant contributor to the study of the African Atlantic, and the field's various debates and disciplinary evolutions. While many scholars of the Gold Coast recognize Kea's work as foundational to scholarship on the Gold Coast, engagement with his work has not been rigorous. Kea is often cited in bibliographies and aspects of his work have served as benchmarks for other forays into Gold Coast histories. However, there is a need to go beyond an appreciation for Kea as a trailblazer, passing reference of his scholarship, and bibliographic citation of his work to a more thorough and consistent discourse with his major ideas and propositions. Kea has been, for example, adept at integrating innovations and ideas in various disciplinary arenas. He dexterously applies Marxist and postmodernist theories, diverse historiographies of the Atlantic world, and conceptual tools to traditional archival and oral historical data in his analyses of Gold Coast and diasporic societies. This review essay argues for Kea's importance and the need for a deeper engagement with his work in the field by putting his work into conversation with both classic Atlantic historiographies and recent scholarship that has built off Kea's.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1017/s0021853724000045
Kefas Lamak
{"title":"Public Piety in Nigeria's Recent History - Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism Abimbola A. Adelakun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 290. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108831079); ebook (ISBN: 9781108923194).","authors":"Kefas Lamak","doi":"10.1017/s0021853724000045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853724000045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":445210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140266014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000749
E. Osborn
{"title":"Intellectuals with Pickaxes - A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 328. $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478015833); $27.85, paperback (ISBN: 9781478018476).","authors":"E. Osborn","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":445210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139684957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000713
Walter Hawthorne
{"title":"African Intellectuals and Abolitionists - Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century By José Lingna Nafafé. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 468. $59.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108838238); $59.99, ebook (ISBN: 9781108974196).","authors":"Walter Hawthorne","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":445210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139606551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000695
Eric Burton
{"title":"Racism, Study, and Cold War Solidarities - African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975 By Sara Pugach. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. 274. $75.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780472075560); $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780472055562).","authors":"Eric Burton","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":445210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139609409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000683
Gillian Mathys, Sarah Van Beurden
{"title":"History by Commission? The Belgian Colonial Past and the Limits of History in the Public Eye","authors":"Gillian Mathys, Sarah Van Beurden","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":445210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138948940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000671
G. Kynoch
On 24 January 1960 nine police were killed in the African settlement of Cato Manor when residents turned on officers conducting a liquor patrol. On 5 September 1961, nine men convicted of the killings were hanged in Pretoria's Central Prison. These deaths produced contrasting narratives, one by the apartheid state and then decades later, another by the current African National Congress government. Apartheid police and judicial authorities vilified the accused as the worst kind of killers who wantonly slaughtered the representatives of law and order. Sixty years later, these murderers of the apartheid period were resurrected as martyrs and their remains were interred at Heroes Arch, a resting place for many antiapartheid activists. Moving past these binary versions allows us to consider a more mundane story that underscores the South African state's commitment to a model of policing that generated an unmatched degree of persecution in colonial Africa.
{"title":"Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa's Cato Manor Killings, 1960–1","authors":"G. Kynoch","doi":"10.1017/s0021853723000671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853723000671","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 On 24 January 1960 nine police were killed in the African settlement of Cato Manor when residents turned on officers conducting a liquor patrol. On 5 September 1961, nine men convicted of the killings were hanged in Pretoria's Central Prison. These deaths produced contrasting narratives, one by the apartheid state and then decades later, another by the current African National Congress government. Apartheid police and judicial authorities vilified the accused as the worst kind of killers who wantonly slaughtered the representatives of law and order. Sixty years later, these murderers of the apartheid period were resurrected as martyrs and their remains were interred at Heroes Arch, a resting place for many antiapartheid activists. Moving past these binary versions allows us to consider a more mundane story that underscores the South African state's commitment to a model of policing that generated an unmatched degree of persecution in colonial Africa.","PeriodicalId":445210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of African History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138976842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1017/s0021853723000658
Folarin Ajibade
This article focuses on the gambling milieu in Nigeria between the late 1970s and early 1980s. I consider the moment when the Federal Military Government (FMG) banned gambling nationwide, and ask why it became such a divisive issue during this tenuous period in Nigeria's history. I argue that amid impending transitional elections to a democratic regime, gambling embodied three key tensions that saturated Nigerian political and civil society during this period: job creation, the state's relationship with private capital, and the division of political power. Additionally, I propose that examining gambling's recreational value alongside its functional significance opens new avenues for the study of the gambling phenomenon in Africa that move beyond ethical considerations.
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