King Sobhuza II Memorial Lectures
Author | : Adebayo Adedeji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cooperation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adebayo Adedeji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cooperation |
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Author | : Hilda Kuper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Hilda Kuper |
Publisher | : Africana Pub. |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : D. Hugh Gillis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031303009X |
A scholarly and engaging study, this history of Swaziland, by an author who spent many years in the kingdom, presents a vivid account of the interplay of politics and personalities along the passage to post-colonial independence. From the early stages of Swazi occupation of the present-day kingdom to the accession of Sobhuza II as king in 1921, this book traces problems in consolidating leadership under the Dlamini chieftaincy and examines the infuence of Boer and British settlers, and of mining and commercial interests, on Swazi culture and governance. It recounts the story of a thriving small nation that sought to maintain traditional customs and institutions in the face of a powerful European presence. Each of the sixteen chapters concentrates on an aspect of political history that has influenced the character of the present-day kingdom, and much of the material, especially after 1900, has not been utilized in previous studies. The introduction looks at Swazi experience in a contemporary context, evaluating historic forces that have made for stability in a rapidly changing world. Other sections detail the Swazi reaction to European-controlled neighboring states (the Transvaal, Natal, and Mozambique), the tensions introduced by successive Boer and British policies, the Swazi detachment during two external wars (1899-1902 and 1914-1918), and widespread concerns about colonialism and self-governance following World War I.
Author | : Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030247775 |
Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders managed to establish an absolute monarchy instead, qualified by the author as benevolent and people-centred, a system which they have successfully defended from competing political forces since the 1970s. This book is the first to study the constitutional history of this monarchy. It examines its origins in the colonial era, the financial support it received from white settlers and apartheid South Africa, and the challenges it faced from political parties and the judiciary, before King Sobhuza II finally consolidated power in 1978 with an auto-coup d’état. As Hlengiwe Dlamini shows, the history of constitution-making in Swaziland is rich, complex, and full of overlooked insight for historians of Africa.
Author | : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3382 |
Release | : 2012-02-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195382072 |
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
Author | : Ashley Jackson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2006-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826440495 |
In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British Empire fought together as a whole during the war has been forgotten. All the parts of the empire joined the struggle and were involved in it from the beginning, undergoing huge changes and sometimes suffering great losses as a result. The war in the desert, the defence of Malta and the Malayan campaign, and the contribution of the empire as a whole in terms of supplies, communications and troops, all reflect the strategic importance of Britain's imperial status. Men and women not only from Australia, New Zealand and India but from many parts of Africa and the Middle East all played their part. Winston Churchill saw the war throughout in imperial terms. The British Empire and the Second World War emphasises a central fact about the Second World War that is often forgotten.
Author | : Philip Bonner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2002-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521523004 |
A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state.
Author | : Chris Reij |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1134175930 |
Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history of soil and water conservation in Africa has been one of imposing external solutions without regard for local practice. There is a remarkably diverse range of locally developed and adapted technologies for the conservation of water and soil, well suited to their particular site and socio-economic conditions. But such measures have been ignored, and sometimes even overturned, by external solutions. Sustaining the Soil documents farmers' practices, exploring the origins and adaptations carried out by farmers over generations, in response to changing circumstances. Through a comparative analysis of conservation measures - from the humid zones of West Africa to the arid lands of the Sudan, from rock terraces in Morocco to the grass strips of Swaziland - the book explores the various factors that influence adoption and adaptation; farmers' perceptions of conservation needs; and the institutional and policy settings most favorable to more effective land husbandry. For the first time on an Africa-wide scale, this book shows that indigenous techniques work, and are being used successfully to conserve and harvest soil and water. These insights combine to suggest new ways forward for governments and agencies attempting to support sustainable land management in Africa, involving a fusion of traditional and modern approaches, which makes the most of both the new and the old.
Author | : Andre Bernard |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 2000-09-21 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0446931268 |
From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.