{"title":"Colonised, Decolonised, Centralised, Decentralised: The Development of Central Banking in Mozambique, 1975– 2010","authors":"G. Verhoef, Carmélia Pateguana","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1634916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1634916","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The history of financial institutions in decolonising countries and newly independent states, especially in Africa, shows the politically contentious nature of control over financial institutions, especially the central bank. This article investigates the particular circumstances surrounding the emergence of a central bank in Mozambique: how local conditions influenced the shaping of new financial institutions in Mozambique. The central question is: How did an independent central bank emerge in Mozambique after independence? The article addresses the impact of the metropolitan identity of Portuguese financial institutions in Mozambique, the political economy of the new political leadership, and finally the formation of a central bank.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1634916","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44857021","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}
{"title":"Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation: A Tale of Two Skulls","authors":"Nancy A. Rushohora","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1626064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1626064","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Colonial masters considered it their right to take human remains collected from colonies or plundered as a result of war. The skulls of Chief Mkwawa and the sub-chief Songea were looted in the same manner from Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to Germany. While Chief Mkwawa’s skull was returned in 1954, the demands for sub-chief Songea’s skull are ongoing, with the Tanzanian community contesting ownership of human remains in European museums. The absence of bones in graves, particularly those of chiefs, have a major impact on the colonised people as graves are associated with communities’ spirituality and wellbeing. This article shows that without a final resting place for the victims of colonialism, mourning is difficult, traumatic and endless. Individuals, communities and nations bestow social, cultural and political significance on human remains, even those curated in museums. The significance of each group is attached to the affective memorialisation of personal bereavement. What happens, then, when the memorialised graves were created at a time when mourning was impossible and the authority to bury or not to bury was in hands of the colonisers? How do the colonial plunder of human body parts and the demands for their return unfold in the contemporary history of Tanzania? These are some of the questions","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"25 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1626064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47317573","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}
{"title":"Undesirable Practices: Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930–1972","authors":"Ivo Mhike","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1603829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1603829","url":null,"abstract":"Undesirable Practices makes a historical intervention on aspects that have come to define contemporary social, human-rights and policy-oriented studies on Africa. Organised into six distinct chapters, it weaves a narrative that explores colonial and post-colonial constructs of nudity, circumcision, prostitution, slavery and trafficking in Northern Ghana from 1930 to 1972. These social processes were categorised as “undesirable” in the colonial lexicon and permeated the colonial social fabric and influenced policy.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"95 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1603829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42348101","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}
{"title":"Tradition and Modernity: The Water Sector in Morocco during the French Protectorate (1912–1956)","authors":"Carmen Ascanio-Sanchez, M. S. Bosa, J. C. Pérez","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1628491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1628491","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article aims to analyse the water policy of the French Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956). After the proclamation of the protectorate, actions on the part of the new rulers affected both the modern and traditional water sectors. The authorities aimed to regulate water resources to help economic growth and favour the settlers living in the occupied areas. On the management side, they tried to adapt traditional institutions and practices to those of metropolitan France, while respecting tradition to some extent. During the first half of the 20th century, these colonial interventions caused profound changes in the established order, which can still be seen at the heart of water management systems used today in this part of the Maghreb. For the purposes of this article, we have adopted evolutionary and institutional theories and applied a methodology based on historical and anthropological analysis, with contributions from the fields of law, economics and geography.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"67 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1628491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48811911","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}
{"title":"Women, Migration and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945–1975","authors":"Anusa Daimon","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1603826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1603826","url":null,"abstract":"Penvenne’s book illuminates the important role that women played in the rise of a vibrant colonial cashew economy in Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Mozambique) from 1945 to 1975. It moves away from the orthodox male-dominated history of labour migration within a colonial economy and chronicles a nuanced gendered history of the cashew economy when Mozambique became the world’s largest combined producer of raw and processed cashew nuts. Faced with an androcentric published and colonial archival record, Penvenne engages ethnographic oral histories (life histories and songs) of three generations of Mozambican women who migrated to Maputo to toil in cashew factories (constituting about 80 per cent of the factory workers) to showcase urban African women’s agency and productivity. Women actually abandoned their traditional farming (the communal hoe) to join or embrace the lucrative cashew economy or what they called “the hoe of the city” (p. 1).","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"92 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1603826","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44426750","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}
{"title":"Battle and Capture in North Africa: The Experience of Two Italian Servicemen","authors":"K. Horn","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1625182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1625182","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Raffaello Cei and Giovanni Palermo both served in the Italian military forces during the Second World War. Following battles against Allied forces in Libya, both men became prisoners of war in the Union of South Africa. While thousands more Italian captives had similar experiences to those of Cei and Palermo, this article looks at the memoirs of these two men with the aim of enriching our understanding of the Italian forces’ range of lived war experience, specifically that of battle and capture in 1941 and 1942.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"46 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1625182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47990129","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}
{"title":"The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves","authors":"France Ntloedibe","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1601845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1601845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"89 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1601845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45186546","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}
{"title":"Paul Kruger: Toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881–1900","authors":"F. J. Nöthling","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1598640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1598640","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"102 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1598640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48503842","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}
{"title":"Iron in the Soul: The Leaders of the Official Parliamentary Opposition in South Africa, 1910–1993","authors":"A. Grundlingh","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1598643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1598643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"87 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1598643","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47984133","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}
{"title":"The Historical Roots of Terrorism in West Africa","authors":"Tilman Dedering","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1509935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1509935","url":null,"abstract":"Boko Haram has inscribed its name on the depressing record of current terrorist movements through suicide bombings, mass killings, abduction of civilians and sexual slavery. Alexander Thurston’s study, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement, is a noteworthy attempt to disentangle the rise of this movement to global infamy by examining the complexities of radical Islam in the Lake Chad region.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"181 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1509935","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41794104","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}