African history

Genetische Manipulation erschuf den Menschen!

Neben den 'Aufrichtigen Erzählungen eines russischen Pilgers' ist dieses erstmals 1907 erschienene Buch die wohl wichtigste Schrift über das Jesusgebet.

Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within domestic borders and across global markets.

Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle.

Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research.

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa.

Ellen Ndeshi Namhila is intrigued by the question: Why can the National Archives of Namibia respond to genealogical enquiries of Whites in a matter of minutes with finding estate records of deceased persons, while similar requests from Blacks cannot be served?

In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive.

This collection of essays documents the growth of African history as a discipline at the University of Basel since 2001.

This study investigates the experiences of women journalists during the last phase of Namibia's liberation struggle against South African rule.

Taking the history of trade and of traders as its subject matter, this book offers the first economic history of northern Namibia during the twentieth century.

This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia.

This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestations for authority over land and natural resources in Namibia,s West Caprivi.

The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been neglected in historical studies.

This book is a long-overdue history of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the rise of the Africanist ideology in South Africa.

Women,s contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and their personal experiences in exile take center stage in this study.

The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917.

Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambia and Botswana, has a contested colonial and postcolonial history.

Windhoek in the early 1960s: the 34-year-old politician Clemens Kapuuo knocks at the door of the senior advocate Israel Goldblatt to solicit advice regarding the myriad of difficulties encountered by Africans daily under the apartheid regime.

This is the melodramatic reconstruction of a true lifestory of an African child from the "e;Gold Coast"e; Ghana, who came in the year 1706 as a "e;gift"e; to the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel to Germany.

»Bang-Bang Paparazzi« nannte das südafrikanische Lifestyle-Magazin Living 1992 die Johannesburger Fotografengruppe um Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek und João Silva.

Mit Beiträgen von Elisabeth Förg, Christoph Gütermann, Georges Hallermayer, Ishraga Mustafa Hamid, Günther Lanier, Birgit Mayerhofer, Tobias Orischnig, Werner Ruf, Markus Schauta, Franz Schmidjell, Mariam Wagialla und Charlotte Wiedemann.

Der Band beleuchtet die Hintergründe des libyschen Machtkampfes und versucht, Antworten auf die brennendsten Fragen zu geben: Wie kam es dazu, dass ein ursprünglich revolutionäres, antikolonialistisches Projekt der Herrschaft des Volkes zu einer Diktatur über das Volk verkommen ist?

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"e;A Mission to Gelele"e;, the former King of Dahomey, which has taken place in the 1860s, describes with minuteness the rituals of Dahomeyan "e;customs,"e; of which, before Captain Burton's visit, tales had been spread mixed with wild exaggerations.

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Acts of terrorism and forms of counter-terrorism have been evolving for quite a long time.

Zu einer Zeit, da Afrika als faszinierendes, aber unwägbares und gefahrenvolles Land galt, stieß ein Mann weit in das Innere des "Schwarzen Kontinents" vor: Heinrich Barth begab sich 1849 im Auftrag der britischen Regierung mit einer drei Mann starken englischen Expedition auf Entdeckungsreise durch Nordund Zentralafrika.

Afrika ist die Wiege der Menschheit.

"Forschungsdrang kennt keine Schwierigkeiten, keine Schranken.

Von der Mitte des 19.

Marrakesch ist einer der geheimnisvollsten und faszinierendsten Orte der Welt.

Tanger ist eine der geheimnisvollsten Städte der Welt.

The black spotthe one very black spotin the picture is the frightful mortality in the Concentration Camps.

Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century.

Hamburg als Kolonialmetropole: Spurensuche und Forschungsbilanz.

Ein Reisender ohne kolonialistischen Blick - das Leben eines der großen Entdecker und Forscher des 19.

Ein Reisender ohne kolonialistischen Blick - das Leben eines der großen Entdecker und Forscher des 19.

Die Genese der bundesrepublikanischen Entwicklungspolitik, erzählt anhand von zentralen Akteuren und Schlüsselinstitutionen.

Lesotho's history has long been defined by its enclave status within South Africa, but it is a hard-fought and hard-won status that helps unite Basotho through the shared history of struggle against colonial rule in the region.

First published in 1978, Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence is a study of British policy towards Rhodesia and an account of the failure of both Labour and Conservative governments to find a satisfactory solution to its 'decolonization'.

The South African economy has largely performed below its potential.

Bin ich ein Sekundärtalent, eine zweitrangige Begabung?

Warum mumifizierten die alten Ägypter nicht nur ihre Toten sondern auch Tiere?

Fast 20 Jahre lang sammelte Eigel Wiese Material für sein Buch über die Sklavenschiffe.

Afrika: Das sind die Klänge und Düfte der Kindheit, die Nicola Vollkommer nie vergessen wird.

Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.