{"title":"Worlds at War: The Local and the Global in New Histories of the South African War","authors":"C. Holdridge","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1514098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1514098","url":null,"abstract":"All modern wars are global in reach, drawing in international actors as active participants or concerned observers no matter how peripheral the conflict might at first appear. With this in mind, it is received wisdom among historians that the South African War “was not simply a small colonial war of local significance, but was rather a conflict with global ramifications.” The war was global in that it shaped worldwide opinion on British conduct, relied on precedent elsewhere, and informed the development of wartime strategies beyond southern Africa.1 But there is value in studying social worlds and local experiences of the 1899–1902 conflict as much as its global impact, especially when we consider the almost civil-war characteristics which pitted neighbour against","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"130 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1514098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44874104","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":"Development and the Making of an “Entrepreneurial Class” in Lebowa","authors":"L. Phillips","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1587923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1587923","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Though the bantustans were economically impoverished and politically fraudulent, their leaders often claimed to be driving a “development agenda” that valorised the power of the market, and particularly the transformative potential of “entrepreneurship” for the well-being of all black South Africans. Using Lebowa, the Northern Sotho bantustan, as a case study, I examine why “development” became such an important framing concept for the homeland project, how the concept changed over time, and why its application was constrained in Lebowa. I show how the internal debates within “development circles”—from policy planners to black businessmen—showcased varying understandings and beliefs about the nature of Lebowa's economy and how best to overcome its weaknesses. But by treating “development” as more than just a legitimising discourse, I ultimately argue that “development” practices— and their particular focus on creating an “entrepreneurial class”—served to entrench an already existing elite in Lebowa.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"4 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1587923","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42354840","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":"Late-Apartheid Education Reforms and Bantustan Entanglements","authors":"L. Chisholm","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1588496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1588496","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract South Africa’s social and educational historiography has rarely singled out specific bantustans for special attention; rather, it has analysed these as part of South Africa’s broader segregationist and apartheid strategy. This article shares and builds on this perspective, extending the analysis by looking more closely at four specific bantustans— Bophuthatswana, Venda, KaNgwane and KwaZulu—and the links between their local and more broadly South African reformist and transnational developmental discourses during the 1980s. It examines how different educational networks formed “discourse coalitions” across these bantustans through the participation of educational reformers and experts in key education commissions and educational projects and initiatives. The article explores the roles of individuals involved in the development of educational reforms and their circulation both across the bantustans and between these bantustans and South Africa. It shows how discourses about education reform in the bantustans and South Africa deployed the language and concepts of development education, which integrated these bantustans into a reformist agenda prolonging rather than dismantling apartheid. The article casts new light on the cross-border relationships around education that bound them to one another and South Africa.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"27 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1588496","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947415","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":"Imagining, Building and Living Nkrumaism","authors":"Matteo Grilli","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1516597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1516597","url":null,"abstract":"In his study on Kwame Nkrumah, D. Rooney points out that he, “almost alone among African leaders, saw the continent’s future in a global perspective.”1 His Pan-Africanist vision foresaw the political and economic liberation of the continent from the yoke of colonialism and neo-colonialism and the establishment of a socialist United States of Africa. Acting as the “vanguard of the African revolution,” Ghana was meant to pave the way for this radical revision of the postcolonial world order, challenging Cold War powers and the influence of their ideologies in Africa.2 Few other figures in modern African history unleashed such an intense debate as Kwame Nkrumah. Addressed by","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"159 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1516597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60242209","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":"Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980)","authors":"M. Ingiriis","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1513213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1513213","url":null,"abstract":"(2018). Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980), by Ali Mumin Ahad. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 189-191.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"189 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1513213","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42815819","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":"Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; A Graphic History","authors":"A. Mohammadpour","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1513889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1513889","url":null,"abstract":"Inhuman Traffick, by Rafe Blaufarb and Liz Clarke, marks a momentous intervention in rethinking and rewriting orthodox Western historiography. This book adds to the scholarship on colonialism and slavery by introducing a phenomenological approach that puts the reader in the shoes of the people of the time (between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries). The aim of this reworked historiography is to amplify the silence, to speak in the voice of slaves, and to put a human face to the dark epoch of slavery which has shaped our world as it exists today. As one of the few of its kind, this book investigates the period of slavery from a more humanistic angle. In doing so, it dismantles the orthodox historiographic authorship and unveils the international struggle led by politicians and intellectuals to abolish the transatlantic slave trade.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"178 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1513889","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42439102","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":"Retelling “the Same Old Stories in Books with Brand-New Covers”: Three More Biographical Studies on Jan Smuts","authors":"Garth Ahnie","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1541654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1541654","url":null,"abstract":"(2018). Retelling “the Same Old Stories in Books with Brand-New Covers”: Three More Biographical Studies on Jan Smuts. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 151-158.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"151 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1541654","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42737863","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 Qwaqwa Public Service, 1975–1994","authors":"C. Twala","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1596402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1596402","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the role of white male public officials who occupied senior positions in the Qwaqwa bantustan's public service during the rule of the Dikwankwetla Party under the leadership of Chief T. K. Mopeli, from 1975 to 1994. The core argument advanced is that the role of white men in the Qwaqwa public service had adverse consequences for local bantustan politics. As a result, the ruling Dikwankwetla Party increasingly experienced a backlash from anti-bantustan formations. The article situates the role played by these white public servants in the broader historiography of the bantustans in South Africa, and thus references other bantustans as well.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"78 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1596402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47662420","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 Bantustan State and the South African Transition: Militarisation, Patrimonialism and the Collapse of the Ciskei Regime, 1986–1994","authors":"Laura Evans","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1582205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1582205","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the Ciskei bantustan and processes of state formation during the transition to democracy. In the Ciskei, the rule of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo rested on the continued support of the South African state: identified as the weakest link in the National Party's conservative alliance, the Ciskei became the first target for the African National Congress's mass action campaign of 1992. The struggle in the Ciskei thus had some significance for the shape of the transition. While at a constitutional level the National Party eventually conceded to the reincorporation of the bantustans in late 1992, it continued to stall change and to bolster the bantustans through covert military operations and land transfers to bantustan elites. These dynamics of state formation are critical aspects of the history of the transition and were at the heart of the emerging political conflict in the Ciskei, which by mid-1992 was escalating into civil war. This article examines mass mobilisation, political repression and the consequences of the patrimonial militarisation of the Ciskei state in the Ciskei/Border region. By focusing on processes of state formation and struggles over the fabric of the state, the article provides a corrective to the prevailing academic focus on the elite negotiations and argues for the value of social histories of the bantustan states for understanding the enduring legacies of these regimes.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"101 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1582205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48797519","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":"Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine, by Catherine Besteman","authors":"Mohamed Haji Ingiriis","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1513209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1513209","url":null,"abstract":"Somali Studies is very fortunate to have been blessed with a cultural anthropologist of the calibre of Catherine Besteman. A keen cultural anthropologist with one eye to explore and the other to examine a complicated case at hand without losing one to the other, Besteman is one of the very few nuanced non-Somali scholars examining Somali society, and is invariably to the point and brilliant in her incisive analysis and insights into the transition (and transformation) of Somali society. Besteman is also an exciting ethnographer who always offers original research findings, this because of her extensive fieldwork in the Bantu/Jareer Somali community in the United States and Somalia. She did fieldwork in southern Somalia in an early period of her academic life as a young, enthusiastic and interesting anthropologist. Unlike some others (in Somali Studies) who have not had direct field research exposure, Besteman lived and stayed in a small farming village on the banks of Bu’aale in Jubbada Dhexe (the Middle Jubba) region, to collect ethnographic data for her doctoral project. The culmination is two significant single-authored books and one co-edited book, as well as numerous essays, academic articles, and book chapters.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"90 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508479","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}