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50 results in Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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Disability in Africa
Opposing Apartheid on Stage
Nigeria's Digital Diaspora
The Other Abyssinians
Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896
Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique, 1940–1986
African Islands
Ethics and Society in Nigeria
African Migration Narratives
Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa
On Durban's Docks
Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone
Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital
Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin
  • Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin
  • The Politics of Land Control, 1790–1940
  • Assan Sarr
  • Published by: Boydell & Brewer
  • Published online: 26 April 2018
  • Print publication: 31 December 2016
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    Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin draws on new sources to offer an original approach to the study of land in African history. Documenting the impact of Islamization, the development of peanut production, and the institution of colonial rule on people living along the middle and lower Gambia River, the book shows how these waves of changes sweeping the region after 1850 altered local political and social arrangements, with important implications for the ability of elites to control land. Author Assan Sarr argues for a nuanced understanding of land and its historic value in Africa. Moving beyond a recognition of the material value of land, Sarr's analysis highlights its cultural and social worth, pointing out the spiritual associations the land generated and the ways that certain people gained privileged access to those spiritual powers. By emphasizing that the land around the Gambia River both inspired and gave form to a cosmology of ritual and belief, the book points to what might be considered an indigenous tradition of ecological preservation and protection. Assan Sarr is assistant professor of history at Ohio University.
Cotton and Race across the Atlantic
The Power of the Oath
Nation as Grand Narrative
  • Nation as Grand Narrative
  • The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning
  • Wale Adebanwi
  • Published by: Boydell & Brewer
  • Published online: 16 February 2018
  • Print publication: 31 May 2016
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    'Nation as Grand Narrative' offers a methodical analysis of how relations of domination and subordination are conveyed through media narratives of nationhood. Using the typical postcolonial state of Nigeria as a template and engaging with disciplines ranging from media studies, political science, and social theory to historical sociology and hermeneutics, Wale Adebanwi examines how the nation as grand narrative provides a critical interpretive lens through which competition among ethnic, ethnoregional, and ethnoreligious groups can be analyzed. Adebanwi illustrates how meaning is connected to power through ideology in the struggles enacted on the pages of the print media over diverse issues including federalism, democracy and democratization, religion, majority-minority ethnic relations, space and territoriality, self-determination, and threat of secession. Nation as Grand Narrative will trigger further critical reflections on the articulation of relations of domination in the context of postcolonial grand narratives. Wale Adebanwi is associate professor of African American and African studies, University of California-Davis, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria
  • Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria
  • Ebenezer Obadare
  • Published by: Boydell & Brewer
  • Published online: 15 February 2018
  • Print publication: 29 February 2016
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    In Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare offers an innovative perspective on the idea and reality of civil society. Mobilizing a wide range of concepts and insights from political science, African studies, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, communications theory, and international development, Obadare develops a notion of civil society that radically departs from the literature's axiomatic focus on voluntary civic associations and focuses instead on more informal strategies of resistance, such as humor and silence. Compellingly argued, Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria raises provocative questions on a topic of keen importance for students, scholars, and policymakers.

    Ebenezer Obadare is associate professorof sociology at the University of Kansas. He is coeditor of Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (James Currey, 2014).
Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya
  • Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya
  • Martin S. Shanguhyia
  • Published by: Boydell & Brewer
  • Published online: 09 June 2021
  • Print publication: 01 December 2015
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    Drawing from accounts of colonial experience in western Kenya, Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya examines the government's efforts to enforce certain land management programs in relation to its initiatives to revive and co-opt African "traditions" in soil conservation and land consolidation programs. Martin Shanguhyia analyzes how these programs were negotiated or contested by the local community; further, he argues that their legacy continues to define the everyday experiences of the rural population in Vihiga County, Western Province, notably in termsof high population densities and diminishing returns from the land. Relying on a rich collection of archival sources as well as oral interviews, the book explores the intersection between government policies, demography, and community traditions within a rapidly declining natural environment and adds significantly to our understanding of Africa's environmental history.

    Martin Shanguhyiais assistant professor of history at Syracuse University.

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