Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, ‘Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland 1615–1870’, History Compass 8, 11 (2010) In 1787, the First Fleet was dispatched from the British Isles to find a penal settlement at Botany Bay, Australia. By this time, the British government had already experimented with convict transportation for over 160 years. The aim of this article is […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Empire, Pacific, Scholarship and insights | Closed
There is a massive “land grab” by foreign companies currently underway in Ethiopia, under the invitation of the regime in power. The move has settler colonialism written all over it. Indeed, it has already induced many in the international community, such as the UN, the EU, FAO to mention but few, to sound the alarm. […]
Filed under: Africa, Political developments | Closed
Actually placing “settlers” and “colonialism” in the same analytical field required overcoming a number of conceptual blockages. It took decades. The nineteenth century – the century of the “settler revolution” (see Belich 2009) – did not think that they could be compounded. Indeed the settler revolution had cleaved the two apart: Marx, who engaged […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Empire, Israel/Palestine, Latin America, New Zealand, Quote, Scholarship and insights, Seminar, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Brett Shadle, ‘White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya’, Journal of Eastern African Studies 4, 3 (2010) Abstract: This article examines settler attitudes toward the law and the legal system in early colonial Kenya. Settlers believed that English law was the culmination of centuries of evolution and was unsurpassed for its justice and […]
Filed under: Africa, law, Scholarship and insights | Closed
reblog: africa at its best
One of the most telling passages in that interview is when she singles out the Maasai and Somali as her favorite natives; not, for example, the Gikuyu who she had most contact with (because they did all the labor on her farm), but the natives who could be described using “noble savage” tropes and analogies […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Website | Closed
Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
Suren Pillay, Cape Town Guest Blogger The World Cup had just ended, and there were stories in the newspapers, telling us that foreign nationals were going to be killed as soon as the event was over. These stories immediately mobilized many of us in civil society, and it even mobilized the state into action. The […]
Filed under: Africa, media, Political developments, Southern Africa | Closed
Settlers are made by conquest, not just by immigration. Settlers are kept settlers by a form of the state that makes a distinction – particularly juridical – between conquerers and conquered, settlers and natives, and makes it the basis of other distinctions that tend to buttress the conquerers and isolate the conquered, politically. However fictitious […]
Filed under: Africa, Quote, Southern Africa | Closed
Catherine Agbo, ‘My Mission is to Liberate FCT Natives’: Dara, Leadership (Abuja) via AllAfrica. Immediate past Chairman of Bwari Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory, Hon. Isah Dara Bwari has disclosed that the major reason for his aspiration to the House of Representatives is to correct the injustices not only against the original Abuja […]
Filed under: Africa, Political developments | Closed
Martin Chatfield Legassick, The Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 1780–1840 (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010). This book publishes Martin Legassick’s influential doctoral thesis about the pre-industrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the 19th century outside […]
Filed under: Africa, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa | Closed
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