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The Oral Tradition of the Baganda of Uganda
The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a window into their culture, history, and experiences as a people. This comprehensive, multigenre work is both a study of the Baganda people's oral literature--framed within the broader contexts of the African oral tradition genre, modern African literature, and global literary studies--and a collection of representative stories. Cultural explanations throughout the text explore the living culture of this unique East African nation. Particular attention is paid to the history of Uganda, thus placing the oral tradition within its proper context. An appendix offers sample Luganda songs.
World History Encyclopedia [21 volumes]
An unprecedented undertaking by academics reflecting an extraordinary vision of world history, this landmark multivolume encyclopedia focuses on specific themes of human development across cultures era by era, providing the most in-depth, expansive presentation available of the development of humanity from a global perspective. Well-known and widely respected historians worked together to create and guide the project in order to offer the most up-to-date visions available. A monumental undertaking. A stunning academic achievement. ABC-CLIO's World History Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive work to take a large-scale thematic look at the human species worldwide. Comprised of 21 volumes c...
Human Sacrifice and the Supernatural in African History
Since time immemorial, human beings the world over have sought answers to the vexing questions of their origins, sickness, death and after death; the meaning of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, eclipses of the sun and moon, birth of twins etc. and how to protect themselves from such mysterious events. They invented God and gods and the occult sciences (witch craft, divination and soothsaying) in order to seek the protection of supernatural powers while individuals used them to gain power to dominate others and to accumulate wealth. Human sacrifice was one way in which they sought to expiate the gods for what they believed were punishments for their transgressions. One example, the Ghan...
The Need for Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment
This book questions and explores the appropriateness of Western models of environmental impact assessment for Third World application. The book also examines Ghana's environmental impact assessment procedure and the potential role of indigenous knowledge and institutions in the assessment process, based on the results of a field research in Ghana. Finally, the book offers suggestions that could improve Ghana's environmental impact assessment procedure and facilitate its adoption in other developing countries, this book will be of interest to environmental assessment professionals and students, international development agencies, NGOs, planners, academicians, and policy makers looking for bottom-up and effective ways of incorporating environmental considerations in development projects in developing countries.
The Politics of Democratisation in Rural Mozambique
This work develops an analysis of state formation in Mozambique from the perspective of three processes: the nature of state and market relations; the construction of local state power structures; and finally the importance of lineage politics and its impact on local power structures.
South Africa Under Majority Rule
The study's findings will contribute greatly to the advancement of knowledge, and the data will be an important source of information for those interested in comparative politics and the sociology of race relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Sudan's Civil War
The civil war in the Sudan has been generally misunderstood in the Sudanese and Western academic worlds as war between an Arab Muslim North and an African Christian South. This work examines how African and Arab have been produced in the Sudan.
A Discourse on Just and Unjust Legal Institutions in African English-speaking Countries
This work covers the historical as well as contemporary socio-political situations in which just and unjust legal situations, law-making bodies or parliaments, office of the ombudsman, faculties of law, police, courts, and penal systems are located. It provides a context for all relevant parties - citizen groups, professional associations, educators, law-makers, judges, police officials, and prison authorities.
The Interrelatedness of Music, Religion, and Ritual in African Performance Practice
This work presents critical perspectives on the dynamic configurations of music, religion (indigenous, Islam, Christian), and ritual in contemporary African societies. Examples show issues and processes of accommodation, and the construction of religious and ethnic identities.
