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Index
Cover Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction
Part I: The personal Part II: Women’s roles in institutions of power Part III: Family and community Part IV: Africans and their environment Part V: Africans and the world Part VI: African self‐representations
Part I: The Personal
Chapter Two: Tracing the Roots of Common Sense about Sexuality in Africa
Four notes of caution The age of “discovery” (and diversity) The age of “science” The age of coming out and the backlash Discussion and conclusion Acknowledgments References
Chapter Three: Masculinities
Conceptual issues African gender systems Big men Remaking men under colonialism Urban gangs The gendered elder state Development Postcolonial interventions and anxieties Sexualities Conclusion References
Chapter Four: Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood
Christianity, colonialism, and the weight of blackness African personhood and Western discursive practices Everyday assaults on African personhood Crisis of African personhood: From the traditional to hybrid forms Conclusion References
Chapter Five: Settler Societies
References Further Reading
Part II: Women’s Roles in Institutions of Power
Chapter Six: Women, Authority, and Power in Precolonial Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe
Zulu cultural brokers and the obliteration of Queen Mother Ntombazi’s image The production of literary texts on queen mother Ntombazi In defense of queen mother Ntombazi Conclusion References
Chapter Seven: Love, Courtship, and Marriage in Africa
The language of love in Africa A tradition of love African courtship traditions Types of marriages Love, courtship, and marriage archive References
Chapter Eight: Slavery and Women in Africa: Changing Definitions, Continuing Problems
References
Part III: Family and Community
Chapter Nine: Kinship in African History
Individual creativity and kinship Kinship as a life of negotiation Kinship in some recent works of African history Conclusion References
Chapter Ten: Ethnicity in Southern Africa
Theoretical starting points Ethnicity in precolonial Southern Africa Ethnicity under white rule in Southern Africa Ethnicity in postcolonial South Africa Acknowledgments References
Chapter Eleven: Ethnicity and Race in African Thought
Instrumentalism and constructivism Beyond modernism Racial entanglements Acknowledgments References
Chapter Twelve: Islam in African History
Religion, Islam, Africa: problematic terms Major currents of research Neoliberalism: new vistas, old problems? Possible future directions References
Chapter Thirteen: Refugees in African History
Who is a refugee? Research questions Eastern Africa, 1850s–1920s Colonialism and refugee management Southern African liberation wars and after Sources Conclusion Acknowledgments References
Part IV: Africans and Their Environment
Chapter Fourteen: Science in Africa: A History of Ingenuity and Invention in African Iron Technology
Examining historical ideas How ethnoarchaeology contributed to indices that assess ancient preheating What is preheating? Reprising objections Reification of objections Where are we now? Conclusion References
Chapter Fifteen: Africa and Environmental History
References
Chapter Sixteen: Health and Medicine in African History
Political economists of health Social‐cultural history of medicine Medical pluralism Reconstructing histories of health, healing, and medicine in Africa Conclusions References
Chapter Seventeen: Wealth and Poverty in African History
History matters? Approaching the African past: historians versus economists What do we now know that we did not know before? Concluding remarks References
Part V: Africans and the World
Chapter Eighteen: The Idea of the Atlantic World from an Africanist Perspective
References
Chapter Nineteen: Swahili Literature and the Writing of African History
References Further Reading
Chapter Twenty: Africa and the Cold War
The first Congo crisis Southern Africa during the Cold War Shifting Cold War support in the Horn of Africa Conclusion References
Chapter Twenty‐One: The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror
The horn of Africa before and during the Cold War Cold war interests and dynamics The horn of Africa and the global war on terror Conclusion References
Part VI: African Self‐Representations
Chapter Twenty‐Two: The Art of Memory and the Chancery of Sinnar
Conclusion References
Chapter Twenty‐Three: Apartheid Forgotten and Remembered
Removing the black voice White conversations about black actions Forgetting Remembering Conclusion Further reading
Chapter Twenty‐Four: Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in Southern Africa
Review of related literature Robben island songs: experiences of PAC political prisoners in the post‐Sharpeville Era, 1960–1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments References
Chapter Twenty‐Five: African Historians and Popular Culture
References
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