Research Africa: May 18th, 2019
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News and Issues
1. Special Issue on Sudan. “Down with the Government of Thieves!” Reflection on the Sudanese Revolutionary Dynamics
By Clément Deshayes, Margaux Etienne and Khadidja Medani, May 7, 2019
Since December 2018, Sudan has experienced demonstrations calling for the fall of Omar al-Bashir, who has led the country since 1989, as well as the whole regime. In this special issue, dedicated to the Sudanese uprising, Noria offers an analysis of the socio-historical dynamics which underlie the unprecedented mobilizations of the past four months. This issue offers a unique collection of field-based analyzes on the Sudanese upraising.
Read the story in this link.
Special Issue on Sudan. “Down with the Government of Thieves!” : Reflection on the Sudanese revolutionary Dynamics – Noria
www.noria-research.com
Since December 2018, Sudan has experienced demonstrations calling for the fall of Omar al-Bashir, who has led the country since 1989, as well as the whole regime. In this special issue, dedicated to the Sudanese uprising, Noria offers an analysis of the socio-historical dynamics which underlie the unprecedented mobilizations of the past four months. This …
2. The Roots of Sudan’s Upheaval
By John Campbell, May 9, 2019
While the Sudanese military expelled President Omar al-Bashir from office, the people of Sudan are ultimately responsible for toppling his regime, and the leaders of the protest movement have promised not to let up until civilian rule is secured. They well know that any persistence of military control represents a continuation of the Bashir regime, and in particular, the Arabic-speaking population’s monopoly of power. For three decades they have endured the suppression of civil society, labor unions, freedom of press and religion, and any real measure of democratic expression or development. The Sudanese people have enough experience with the security apparatus Bashir created to know that exchanging one general with another does not represent improvement.
Read the story here.
3. To Develop Africa, Break with Capitalism
By Giovanni Vimercate, April 26, 2019
Guyanese historian, academic and political activist Walter Rodney was assassinated in 1980 at the age of 38. Yet almost 40 years after his death, Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains as relevant as when published: a call to arms in the class struggle for racial equality.
Walter Rodney examined the economics of colonialism and showed the profound connections between racial inequality and social injustice. Today, his ideas are as compelling as ever.
Read the story in this link.
‘To develop Africa, break with capitalism’
www.newframe.com
Walter Rodney examined the economics of colonialism and showed the profound connections between racial inequality and social injustice. Today, his ideas are as compelling as ever.
4. “Sudan gives us confidence,” What’s Next for Uganda’s Opposition?
By Sophie Neimanmay, May 9, 2019
Outside of the Chief Magistrate Court in Kampala, crowds of young people decked in red berets and clothing sing and cheer. They came here to support Bobi Wine at his bail application hearing and are now jubilantly celebrating his release. Others race down the road to the popular singer’s home, fighting police tear gas on the way, to give him a hero’s welcome. These scenes are evidence of how big a following Bobi Wine (real name Robert Kyagulanyi) has built up in Uganda today. Drawing on his rough upbringing in Kampala’s slums, the 37-year-old singer-turned-politician has styled himself as a warrior for ordinary people. His critiques of Uganda’s many ills in his speeches and songs have won him widespread support, particularly among a frustrated youth.
Read the story here.
“Sudan gives us confidence”: What next for Uganda’s opposition? – African Arguments
africanarguments.org
Uganda’s government is clamping down heavily on opposition figure Bobi Wine, but he and his supporters remain undeterred. Outside of the Chief Magistrate Court in Kampala, crowds of young people decked in red berets and clothing sing and cheer. They came here to support Bobi Wine at his bail application hearing and are now jubilantly celebrating his release. Others race down the road to the popular singer’s home, fighting police tear gas on the way, to give him a hero’s welcome. These scenes are evidence of how big a following Bobi Wine (real name Robert Kyagulanyi) has built up in …
5. The story of Oromo Slaves Bound for Arabia who were Taken to South Africa
By Fred Morton, May 13, 2019
In September 1888, the HMS Osprey serving in the Royal Navy’s anti-slave trade mission in the Red Sea based in Aden, intercepted three dhows embarked from Rahayta and Tadjoura on the Ethiopia coast. Aboard were 204 boys and girls bound for resale in Arabian markets. Other dhows with young human cargo were also apprehended. The children came from the highland area of Oromia Region of Ethiopia, and spoke the Oromo language.
Read the story in this link.
The story of Oromo slaves bound for Arabia who were taken to South Africa
qz.com
The story of the 204 boys and girls is captured in a new book laden with graphs, maps, charts and statistics.
NEW BOOKS كتب جديدة
African Feminist Theology and Baptist Pastors’ Wives in Malawi
(الحركة النسائية الإفريقية: حالة دراسية للعلاقة بين علم الاهوت وزوجات القساوسة في ملاوي)
Author: Molly Longwe
This book presents a story of the experiences of the pastors’ wives within the Baptist Convention of Malawi (BACOMA). Formed in 1970 out of the missionary endeavors of the North American-based Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), BACOMA is a voluntary national association of Baptist churches. Molly Longwe‘s book presents a concise picture of African Feminist Theology and relates it to the lived experiences of pastors‘ wives in the Baptist Convention of Malawi.
Publisher: Luviri Press, Malawi, 2019
Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa
(أطفال الرجاء: مآسي المسترقين من قبائل أورومو الايثيوبيين المرحلين إلى جنوب إفريقيا)
Author: Sandra Rowoldt Shell
In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell traces the lives of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy and ultimately sent to Lovedale Institution, a Free Church of Scotland mission in South Africa for their safety. Because Scottish missionaries in Yemen interviewed each of the Oromo children shortly after their liberation, we have sixty-four, structured life histories told by the children themselves.
Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2018
Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese Scholars in Conversation
(نحو تجديد المواطنة: حوار بين علماء من جنوب أفريقيا وعلماء من اليابان)
Author: (Editor) Itsuhiro Hazama, Kiyoshi Umeya, Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Anthropological reflections on citizenship focus on themes such as politics, ethnicity and state management. Present day scholarship on citizenship tends to problematize, unsettle and contest often taken-for-granted conventional connotations and associations of citizenship with imagined culturally bounded political communities of rigidly controlled borders. This book, the result of two years of research conducted by South African and Japanese scholars, provides a framework on citizenship in the 21st century and contributes to ongoing efforts to rethink citizenship globally, as informed by particular experiences in Africa and Japan. Central to the essays in this book is the concept of flexible citizenship, predicated on a recognition of the histories of human and cultural mobility and of the shaping and reshaping of places and spaces. In these discussions, the authors grapple with the ideas of being and belonging, core elements of humanity.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon, 2019
Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice
(اللغويات: نحو تحقيق العدالة)
Author: John Baugh, Author
As a black child growing up in inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, John Baugh witnessed racial discrimination at a young age and began to notice correlations between language and race. While attending college he worked at a laundromat serving African Americans who were often subjected to mistreatment by the police. His observations piqued his curiosity about the ways that linguistic diversity might be related to the burgeoning Civil Rights movement for racial equality in America. Baugh pursued these ideas while traveling internationally only to discover alternative forms of linguistic discrimination in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and South America. He coined the phrase ‘linguistic profiling’ based on experimental studies of housing discrimination, and expanded upon those findings to promote equity in education, employment, medicine, and the law. This book is the product of the culmination of these studies, devoted to the advancement of equality and global justice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018
South Sudan: Elites, Ethnicity, Endless Wars and the Stunted State
(جنوب السودان: النخب والقبليات والحروب الدائمة والدولة الواهنة)
Author: (Editor): Peter Adwok Nyaba
South Sudan: Elites, Ethnicity, Endless Wars and the Stunted State is likely to achieve its objective of stimulating debate about the future of South Sudan as a viable polity. The hope is that readers, through the debate generated by this book, will rediscover the commonality that marked the struggle for freedom, justice, and fraternity, and abandon ethnic ideologies as a means of constructing a modern state in South Sudan. This work is a must-read for South Sudanese intellectuals who seek to reshape South Sudan’s socioeconomic development and political trajectory.
Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania, 2019
Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation
(منهجنا في هذا القطر من العالم: سيرة مجتمع وثقافة وأمة أفريقية)
Author: Kwasi Konadu
Kofi Donko was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of values for his Ghanaian community. Kwasi Konadu centers Donko’s life story and experiences in a communography of Donko’s community and nation from the late nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth, which were shaped by historical forces from colonial Ghana’s cocoa boom to decolonization and political and religious parochialism. Although Donko touched the lives of thousands of citizens and patients, neither he nor they appear in national or international archives covering the region. Yet his memory persists in his intellectual and healing legacy, and the story of his community offers a non-national, decolonized example of social organization structured around spiritual forces that serves as a powerful reminder of the importance for scholars to take cues from the lived experiences and ideas of the people they study.
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2019.
The Marks: An Anthology of Literary Works on Boko Haram
(البصمات: مختارات من الأعمال الأدبية المكتوبة عن بوكو حرام)
Author: (Editor) Tanure Ojaide, Razinat T. Mohammed, Abubakar Othman
This anthology is an outcome of literary writers’ reaction to the Boko Haram insurgency in the north-eastern region of Nigeria. Life has not only been extensively disrupted by the group’s violent tactics and its mind-numbing levels of physical destruction but also has become disturbed as the number of people dislocated and seeking refuge in urban centers reaches the millions. These refugees, classified as Internally Displaced Persons and living in camps guarded by Nigerian soldiers, have received worldwide attention. Writers in the affected areas and elsewhere in Nigeria have responded in poetry, short stories, and non-fiction some of which are collected here.
Publisher: Malthouse Press, Nigeria, 2019
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