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Remembering genocide to forget divisions: Namibian Herero identity in post-colonial Namibia (1999)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at 'Namibië: Naar een Nieuwe Identiteit?', Studium Generale, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 October, 1999
Keywords: identity, Namibia, Netherlands
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Religion, Labour and Resistance in Namibia - II - The Road of the Man Called Love and the Sack of Sero: The Herero-German War and the Export of Herero Labour to the South African Rand (1999)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: The journal of African history

This article suggests how oral histories can retain memories of important aspects of the past which have been totally ignored in contemporary accounts or later historical studies. It shows that in Herero oral history in northeastern Namibia, the phrase 'Ondjira ja...

Keywords: Africa, Herero, Herero revolt, history, Namibia, oral history, South Africa
Open access: Full text
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Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (1999)
J.B. Gewald
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Herero, history, Namibia
Open access: Full text
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Pastoralists under pressure : Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa (1999)
Editors: J.W.M. van Dijk; V. Azarya; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book

This collective volume discusses social change and ecological and cultural adaptation among the Fulbe of West Africa. The introduction is by Victor Azarya. Part 1 (Ethnicity) contains chapters by Roger Blench (the question of why there are so many pastoral groups in East...

Keywords: Africa, animal husbandry, Cameroon, ethnicity, Fulani, Mali, social change, Sudan, West Africa
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Inleiding (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk; M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: C. Angenent; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: De Haayre: vertelling over een nomadisch Koninkrijk
Keywords: Fulani, Mali, oral traditions
Open access: Full text
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Régimes fonciers et aménagement des ressources dans un contexte pluriethnique et de pluralisme juridique (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: Y. Diallo; G Schlee
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: L'ethnicité peule dans des contextes nouveaux : la dynamique des frontières

Les sécheresses des années 1970 et 1980 ont provoqué partout en Afrique de l'Ouest des migrations des éleveurs peuls vers des zones plus humides. Dans cet article l'auteur présente quelques réflexions sur la dynamique de la propriété foncière et de la territorialité...

Keywords: agriculture, animal husbandry, customary law, ethnic relations, farmers, Fulani, land law, Mali, nomads
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De Haayre : vertelling over een nomadisch Koninkrijk (1999)
Editors: J.W.M. van Dijk; C. Angenent; A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: Fulani, Mali, oral traditions
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ressources vivrières de base ou elevage? Deux projets de développement chez les Fulbe eleveurs du Mali Central (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk; M.E. de Bruijn
Editors: R. Botte; J. Boutrais; J. Schmitz
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Figures Peules
Keywords: animal husbandry, Fulani, Mali, migration, West Africa
Open access: Full text
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Dryland ecology, resource variability and socio-cultural transformations (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Proceedings of the seminar "Acts of man and acts of nature: different constructions of social and natural resource dynamics". Bergen, 1998.
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Ecological insecurity and Fulbe pastoral society in the Niger Bend (1999)
J.W.M. van Dijk
Editors: A. Breedveld; M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk; V. Azarya
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Pastoralists under Pressure: Fulbe Societies Confronting Change in West Africa

This collective volume discusses social change and ecological and cultural adaptation among the Fulbe of West Africa. The introduction is by Victor Azarya. Part 1 (Ethnicity) contains chapters by Roger Blench (the question of why there are so many pastoral groups in East...

Keywords: Africa, animal husbandry, Cameroon, ethnicity, Fulani, Mali, social change, Sudan, West Africa
Open access: Full text
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Coping with urban poverty in Sub-Sahara Africa, with special emphasis on urban agriculture (1999)
D.W.J. Foeken
Type of publication: Journal Article
In: West Asia and Africa
Keywords: Africa, agriculture
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Urban agriculture: the case of Nairobi (1999)
D.W.J. Foeken; A.M. Mwangi
Type of publication: Book
Keywords: agriculture
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The Pentecostal gift : Ghanaian charismatic churches and the moral innocence of the global economy (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: R. Fardon; W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond

The paradigm of the enchanted global economy and the moral perils of involvement with foreign commodities suggests that anxieties about the generally immoral powers believed to exist within foreign objects result from an imperfect understanding of the global marketplace....

Keywords: Africa, Baptist Church, Ghana, gifts, global economy, Pentecostalism
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Pentecostalism, gerontocratic rule and democratization in Malawi : the changing position of the young in political culture (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Editors: J. Haynes
Type of publication: Book Chapter
In: Religion, globalization and political culture in the Third World

This chapter explores the relationship between the father-metaphor, gerontocratic power, democratization and religion in the context of changing political culture in Malawi. It argues that democratization in Malawi signalled a change in the nature of the dominant...

Keywords: Baptist Church, democracy, democratization, generations, Malawi, Pentecostalism
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Confronting the past and post-colonial identities in Africa: the case of pentecostalism (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the African Studies Program, Indiana University, 17 November 1999
Keywords: Africa, African studies, identity, Pentecostalism
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Plunder hell to populate heaven: the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the WOTRO seminar series, 5 March 1999
Keywords: diaspora
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Religion, reciprocity and restructuring family responsibility in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'Migrant Families and Human Capital Formation', Leiden, 19-21 November 1999
Keywords: diaspora
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The moral life of the gift in Ghanaian Pentecostal churches in the diaspora: questions of (in-)dividuality and (in-)alienability in transcultural reciprocal relations (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the conference 'Commodification, Objects and Identities: Social Life of Things Revisited', Amsterdam, 10-12 June 1999
Keywords: diaspora, identity
Added to database: 23 December 2011

The musical politics of transnational pentecostalism in Ghana (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Conference Paper
In: Paper presented at the African Studies Association, panel 'Religious Discourse and Political Expression in the Fourth Republic, Ghana', Philadelphia, 11-14 November 1999
Keywords: African studies, Ghana, Pentecostalism
Added to database: 23 December 2011

Plunder hell, to populate heaven : the extractive and the insertive in the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora (1999)
R.A. van Dijk
Type of publication: Book

This paper examines the tension between professed individuality and performed dividuality in the Pentecostal ideology of the African diaspora in the Netherlands. The central notion of the paper is that in diasporic movement and its representation in Pentecostalism,...

Keywords: Baptist Church, diaspora, Ghana, Ghanaians, immigrants, Netherlands, Pentecostalism
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