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Afrasian Transformations
African-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these transformations have already produced startling results: development politics, South-South cooperation, cultural memory, mobile lifeworlds and transcultural connectivity. The contributions in this volume neither celebrate these shifting dynamics as felicitous proof of a new age of South-South solidarity, nor do they debunk them as yet another instance of burgeoning geopolitical hegemony. Instead, they seek to come to terms with the ...
Joseph Murumbi
In 1966, after serving first as Kenya’s Foreign Minister and then as Vice-President, Joseph Murumbi resigned from Government. Having concluded that the country had made a wrong turn away from a concern for the poor and the ideals he believed in, Morumbi told an old friend that he could no longer ‘be part of corruption in this country’. Tribalism, too, which was to take Kenya to the brink of disaster years later, had already become firmly entrenched, and he wanted no part of it. Today, Murumbi stands as a symbol of what Kenya could have become, and still could be. As the son of a Goan father and a Maasai mother, he disdained prejudice of any kind. As someone plucked from relative obscurity by Jomo Kenyatta thanks to his hard work and talents as an organiser, he was dismissive of those who depended on family or ethnic connections. And as a strong advocate of embracing and preserving African culture, he was a champion of African artists and their works. This book, which combines interviews done with Murumbi in the 1970s with historical information and recollections of the people who knew him.
Shakespeare in Swahililand
Shakespeares Botschaft ist universell und trifft die Menschen über Jahrhunderte, Grenzen und Kontinente hinweg ins Herz. Als viktorianische Forscher sich Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Namen des British Empire in Ostafrika auf Expedition begaben, hatten sie zum Überleben in der Wildnis auch das Werk William Shakespeares im Gepäck. Damit begann der ungewöhnliche Siegeszug des großen Dichters in einer Region, die von seiner eigenen Lebenswelt kaum weiter entfernt sein könnte und in der sein Erbe bis heute präsent ist. Shakespeares Texte gehörten zu den ersten, die von befreiten Sklaven in Swahili gedruckt wurden, indische Bahnarbeiter nutzen die Texte, um für ihre Rechte zu kämpfen. I...
Through Open Doors
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Lamu
This book gives an insightful look at the early history of the island of Lamu on the Kenya coast, as well as the surrounding area. Arab and Indian sailors dominated the maritime trade of the western Indian Ocean from earliest times. Greek sailors operating out of Egyptian ports joined them and it was from them that the first written records of the East African coast are derived. Lamu, with its fine natural harbour and abundant supplies of fresh water, likely played a major part in this maritime trade. By the 14th century the renowned Moroccan traveller, ibn Battúta, reported that the whole East African coast had been Islamicized. Then came the Portuguese in the last years of the 15th centur...
Images and Empires
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.
