Mhlakaza In The Changing Southern Africa

Author : A. Mhlakaza
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789956552764

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Mhlakaza in the Changing Southern Africa by A. Mhlakaza Pdf

These beautifully crafted Memoirs reveal to us the journey of life, through childhood and adulthood, of a man who has been sincerely committed to all he undertook. As a teacher and lecturer, a community development worker, an author and devoted Catholic, with his wife and family by his side, he has given himself unreservedly in the service of others. Alongside his reflections about his personal journey, we gain insights into the history and political changes in Lesotho and South Africa, and the evolution of the Catholic Church in that context. Whether interested in what shapes a person's character and how he lives out the values with which he is imbued, or in the transition of South Africa from apartheid to freedom and Lesotho from protectorate to constitutional monarchy, readers will find these Memoirs elucidating and rewarding. Dr Vincent Mhlakaza has already published several collections of short stories (Lekomo, 1992, Seotlong, 1994, Tikamotse, 1999) and Lipale le Litomo tsa Andersen (2010), a translation of 12 of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (2016) is a collection of hymns, offered in several South African languages, with tonic sol-fa notation. He has received two first prize literary awards, in 1993 for Lekomo and in 1999 for Tikamotse. A novel, Rapitso, remains unpublished (Sarah Westcott, Oxford, UK).

Author : Vincent A. Mhlakaza
Publisher : Langaa RPCID
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9956552267

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Mhlakaza in the Changing Southern Africa: The Memoirs of Dr V A Mhlakaza by Vincent A. Mhlakaza Pdf

These beautifully crafted Memoirs reveal to us the journey of life, through childhood and adulthood, of a man who has been sincerely committed to all he undertook. As a teacher and lecturer, a community development worker, an author and devoted Catholic, with his wife and family by his side, he has given himself unreservedly in the service of others. Alongside his reflections about his personal journey, we gain insights into the history and political changes in Lesotho and South Africa, and the evolution of the Catholic Church in that context. Whether interested in what shapes a person's character and how he lives out the values with which he is imbued, or in the transition of South Africa from apartheid to freedom and Lesotho from protectorate to constitutional monarchy, readers will find these Memoirs elucidating and rewarding. Dr Vincent Mhlakaza has already published several collections of short stories (Lekomo, 1992, Seotlong, 1994, Tikamotse, 1999) and Lipale le Litsomo tsa Andersen (2010), a translation of 12 of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (2016) is a collection of hymns, offered in several South African languages, with tonic sol-fa notation. He has received two first prize literary awards, in 1993 for Lekomo and in 1999 for Tikamotse. A novel, Rapitso, remains unpublished (Sarah Westcott, Oxford, UK).

Author : Paul B. Rich
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : 0312121202

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The Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa by Paul B. Rich Pdf

Author : Andrew Bank,Leslie J. Bank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107029385

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Inside African Anthropology by Andrew Bank,Leslie J. Bank Pdf

Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into the field among the Mpondo of South Africa, where her studies resulted in her 1936 book Reaction to Conquest. Her fieldwork focus then shifted to Tanzania, where she teamed up with her husband, Godfrey Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson embarked on a new urban ethnography with a young South African anthropologist, Archie Mafeje, one of the many black scholars she trained. This study also provides a meticulously researched exploration of the indispensable contributions of African research assistants to the production of this famous woman scholar's cultural knowledge about mid-twentieth-century Africa.

Author : Peggy Brock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047405559

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Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change by Peggy Brock Pdf

Ten historians and anthropologists analyse religious change as it was experienced by Indigenous Peoples in and around the Pacific and southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Elizabeth Thornberry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472807

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Colonizing Consent by Elizabeth Thornberry Pdf

Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.

Author : Alan Lester,Kate Boehme,Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426206

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Ruling the World by Alan Lester,Kate Boehme,Peter Mitchell Pdf

Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.

Author : Zolile Mninawa Ntshona,Edward Lahiff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Eastern Cape (South Africa)
ISBN : WISC:89084987114

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Rural Development, Institutional Change and Livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa by Zolile Mninawa Ntshona,Edward Lahiff Pdf

Author : Elinor Vastine Hohman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : WISC:89086029493

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Tradition and Change in an African Culture by Elinor Vastine Hohman Pdf

Author : Thomas Cousins
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781531503550

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The Work of Repair by Thomas Cousins Pdf

In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form the basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. In this captivating ethnography, Cousins examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity. The Work of Repair is a fine-grained exploration of the relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, and the historical decompositions and reinventions of the milieu of those livelihoods and lives. Offering a fresh approach to the existential, ethical and political stakes of ethnography from and of late liberal South Africa, the book attends to urgent questions of postapartheid life: the fate of employment; the role of the state in providing welfare and access to treatment; the regulation of popular curatives; the queering of kinship; and the future of custom and its territories. Through detailed descriptions, Cousins explicates the important and fragile techniques that constitute the work of repair: the effort to augment one’s capacity in a way that draws on, acknowledges, and reimagines the wounds of history, keeping open the possibility of a future through and with others.

Author : Katherine Hallemeier
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399516198

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African Literature and US Empire by Katherine Hallemeier Pdf

Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from within the African postcolony and its diasporas registers how dreams of national becoming endure. In this fascinating new study, Hallemeier brings together African literary studies, affect studies and US empire studies, to challenge chronologies that chart a growing disillusionment with the postcolonial nation and national development across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Nigerian and South African writings in African Literature and US Empire, while often attuned to the trans- and extra- national, repeatedly scrutinise why visions of national exceptionalism, signified by a 'pan-African' Nigeria and 'new' South Africa, remain stubbornly affecting, despite decades of disillusionment with national governments beholden to a neocolonial global order. In these fictions, optimistic forms of nationalism cannot be reduced to easily critiqued state-sanctioned discourses of renewal and development. They are also circulated through experiences of embodied need, quotidian aspiration and transnational, pan-African relationship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000125194989

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Journal of Religion in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Magubane
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106013740920

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Vanishing Cultures of South Africa by Peter Magubane Pdf

Ten major ethnic groups are featured - including the San, Zulu, Ndebele, Basotho, and Venda - as well as several smaller sub-groups. This book describes the individual personality and history of each, their education, laws, languages, medicine and magic, and their religion. Over 200 photographs capture the vibrant color of ceremonial and everyday dress and ornamentation, musical instruments, dances and rites of passage, art, homes, and work. The remarkable metal neck rings and the geometrically beaded wire hoops worn by Ndebele and Ntwana women, the sacrificial ceremonies of the Zulu, the long pipes smoked by the Xhosa, and the traditional hunter-gatherer weapons of the San, deep in the Kalahari Desert - the details of today's way of life are recorded here in evocative pictures, while former traditions, now lost, fill the text with the intriguing, vital history of each group.

Author : Leslie Witz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800735392

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Museum Times by Leslie Witz Pdf

Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. From the renowned Robben Island Museum to the almost unknown Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, the author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.

Author : Jeff Peires
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868425631

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The Dead will Arise by Jeff Peires Pdf

The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's history. Jeff Peires was the first historian to draw on all available sources, from oral tradition and obscure Xhosa texts to the private letters and secret reports of police informers and colonial officials, and the original edition of The Dead Will Arise won the 1989 Alan Paton Sunday Times award for non-fiction.