Jan-Bart Gewald
Jan-Bart Gewald is a historian specialized in the social history of Africa. He is Professor of African History and Director of the African Studies Centre Leiden as of 1 September 2017.
His research has ranged from the ramifications of genocide in Rwanda and Namibia, through to the socio-cultural parameters of trans-desert trade in Africa. In addition, he has conducted research on pan-Africanism in Ghana, spirit possession in the Republic of Niger, Dutch development cooperation, Africa in the context of globalisation, and social history in Eritrea. For the past 15 years his prime research focus has been on the socio-cultural history of central Africa. Of late he has become interested in the “Animal Turn” in history, and is seeking to apply this in his research and supervision. Furthermore he has a particular interest in archaeology, and has participated in archaeological research in southern Africa.
Jan-Bart Gewald has acquired research funding from a wide variety of sources and was awarded research funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for research programmes within the social sciences and humanities that dealt with the role of technology and consumption in African societies.
On a personal note, Jan-Bart grew up in Africa and has lived in Botswana, Congo Kinshasa, Eritrea, Ghana, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Keywords: African cultural and social history, relationship technology and society, Southern African history, Ghanaian history, African socio-political history, global and imperial history, history of anthropology, contemporary African developments, history of technology in Africa, genocide studies.
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Rethinking African history
(Collaborative Research Group)
Trans-species perspectives on African Studies
(Collaborative Research Group)
DigiDogon: Digitizing Dogon heritage. The legacy of Abirè, the Dogon prophet
(Research project)
The enduring legacy of German colonial rule and the League of Nations mandate in the borderlands of contemporary Africa
(Research project)
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A contested ritual of unity: the Herero Red Flag Day (2017)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
From roads for form to roads for war : toward a history of roads in colonial Zambia, 1890-1920 (2017)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Settlers, semaphores and speculators : the remnants of war in contemporary South Africa (2017)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
"My favourite source is the landscape" : an interview with Robert Ross (2017)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Introduction : contributions to history (2017)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history : a festschrift for Robert Ross (2017)
Type of Publication: Book
People on the move (2017)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Mensen op drift (2017)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations (2015)
Type of Publication: Book
Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920 (2015)
Type of Publication: Book
To Grahamstown and back: towards a socio-cultural history of Southern Africa (2014)
Type of Publication: Book
Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies (2012)
Type of Publication: Book
Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia (2011)
Type of Publication: Book
On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld, colonial Namibia, 1916 -25 (2011)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: Günther Wagner and the unpublished ethnographic survey (2011)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Die Spanische Grippe in Afrika: Einige Anmerkungen zu Quellenlage und zukünftiger Forschung (2011)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Remote but in contact with history and the world (2010)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000 (2009)
Type of Publication: Book
Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa (2009)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930 (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer (2009)
Type of Publication: Review
One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia (2008)
Type of Publication: Book
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia (2008)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania (2008)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Introduction (2008)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
'Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa' written by Stephen J. Rockel (2008)
Type of Publication: Review
'No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War' written by Timothy J. Stapleton (2008)
Type of Publication: Review
'Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64' written by L.J. Butler (2008)
Type of Publication: Review
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Book
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Transport transforming society : towards a history of transport in Zambia, 1890-1930 (2007)
Type of Publication: Other
Researching and writing in the twilight of an imagined conquest : anthropology in Northern Rhodesia 1930-1960 (2007)
Type of Publication: Other
Spanish influenza in Africa : some comments regarding source material and future research (2007)
Type of Publication: Other
Challenging Nationalist "Historiography" in Settler States: Zimbabwe, Kenya and Namibia (2006)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2006)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001 (2006)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier (2006)
Type of Publication: Review
Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte? (2005)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht (2005)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage (2005)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992) (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania (2005)
Type of Publication: Book
Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia) (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
Learning to wage and win wars in Africa : a provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia (2005)
Type of Publication: Other
The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century : towards a socio-historical case study (2005)
Type of Publication: Other
Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia (2004)
Type of Publication: Review
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture (2004)
Type of Publication: Book
The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908 (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
African History and the Netherlands (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Transformations in Transport in Zambia: Peliminary ideas regarding a social history dealing with the introduction of the motor-car in Zambia, 1890 - 1930 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Ontwikkelingshulp faalt door onkunde (2004)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Chief Hosea Kutako: Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist. A life against confinement, 1870 - 1970 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890 - 1923 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Urbanisation in Africa, the example of Zambia (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Coming through slaughter: The Herero of Namibia 1904 - 1940 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Namibia's Past in the Present: Towards Patriotic History? (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915) (2003)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966 (2003)
Type of Publication: Review
Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923 (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia (2003)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique (2003)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book (2003)
Type of Publication: Book
Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia (2002)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner (2002)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914 (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940 (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
The first and the last of the Twentieth Century: The Herero and the Rwandan genocides (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Globalisation and violence in Africa (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
From the Anecdotal to the Empirical: A Provisional Exploration of Globalisation and Questions of Ownership with particular focus on Africa (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland (2002)
Type of Publication: Review
The Herero genocide: Bureaucracy and mass-killing (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Presenting the past to conquer the future: the political use of the Herero genocide in the course of the twentieth century (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Death in the streets of Karibib: the Ovamboland famine of 1915 and its impact on Namibian history (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2001)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Anticipating the Kaiser: German soldiers and the Herero genocide (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland protectorate 1890-1914 (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
El Negro, el Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966 (2001)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS (2001)
Type of Publication: Review
People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933 (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52 (2000)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa (2000)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (2000)
Type of Publication: Book
People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa (2000)
Type of Publication: Book
Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946 (2000)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991 (2000)
Type of Publication: Review
Of brothers and war: On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld 1916-1930 (1999)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Remembering genocide to forget divisions: Namibian Herero identity in post-colonial Namibia (1999)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
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)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (1999)
Type of Publication: Book
From Kuruman to Gobabis: Barolong Batlharo traders, trade routes and trade strategies 1880-1904 (1999)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt (1999)
Type of Publication: Review
"We will go to the Jews": The re-introduction of circumcision, polygamy and ritual mutilation, and the redefinition of gender relations in central Namibian Herero society, 1920-1940 (1998)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s (1998)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Football, fanfares and funerals: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (1998)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Heaven on earth: Herero conceptualisation of land 1920-1940 (1998)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (1997)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920's (1997)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914 (1997)
Type of Publication: Review
Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923 (1996)
Type of Publication: Book
Herero annual parades: commemorating to create (1996)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908 (1995)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century (1995)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Unburdening myself of Herero history (1995)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Death by camel: the Herero succession dispute of 1890-1894 (1995)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa (1994)
Type of Publication: Review
History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century (1994)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
The curse of Kahimemua: the impact of rinderpest in Hereroland (1994)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Seeking to return?, Herero exiles 1904-1923 (1994)
Type of Publication: Book
The road of the man called Love and the Sack of Sero: The export of Herero labour to the South African Rand, 1890-1914 (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The return of Herero refugees to Namibia post 1914 (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The creation of Damaraland: the creation of a new ethnicity? (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Bakgalagadi ethnic formation in post independence Namibia (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958 (1990)
Type of Publication: Book
"A faithful, circumstantial and unvarnished detail of incidents" : a critical reassessment of the accounts relating to Shaka in 'The diary of Henry Francis Fynn' (1989)
Type of Publication: Book
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong (1989)
Type of Publication: Book
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Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies collection 61, 2015
J.B. Gewald
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To Grahamstown and back: towards a socio-cultural history of Southern Africa
Leiden: Leiden University, 2014
J.B. Gewald
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Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 63, 2005
J.B. Gewald
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From output to outcome? 25 years of IOB evaluations
Amsterdam: Aksant, 2004
J. van Beurden; J.B. Gewald
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Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Sources for African history, ISSN 1570-8721 ; vol. 1 2003
J. Silvester; J.B. Gewald
25 Years IOV-IOB: Competence with Consequence?
Amsterdam: IISG, IISG Working Document 2003
J.B. Gewald; M. Prins
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"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; vol. 8 2000
J.B. Gewald
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923
Oxford: James Currey, 1999
J.B. Gewald
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Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923
Leiden: Research School CNWS, CNWS publications, ISSN 0925-3084 ; vol. 47 1996
J.B. Gewald
Seeking to return?, Herero exiles 1904-1923
Toronto: [African Studies Association], 1994
J.B. Gewald
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958
[S.l.]: [s.n.], 1990
J.B. Gewald
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong
Leiden: State University, 1989
J.B. Gewald
"A faithful, circumstantial and unvarnished detail of incidents" : a critical reassessment of the accounts relating to Shaka in 'The diary of Henry Francis Fynn'
Leiden: State University, 1989
J.B. Gewald
'Introduction : contributions to history'
In: I. Peša; J.B. Gewald: 'Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history, a festschrift for Robert Ross', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'"My favourite source is the landscape" : an interview with Robert Ross'
In: I. Peša; J.B. Gewald: 'Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history, a festschrift for Robert Ross', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'Settlers, semaphores and speculators : the remnants of war in contemporary South Africa'
In: I. Peša; J.B. Gewald: 'Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history, a festschrift for Robert Ross', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'From roads for form to roads for war : toward a history of roads in colonial Zambia, 1890-1920'
In: W.E.A. van Beek; J.C.M. Damen; D.W.J. Foeken: 'The face of Africa: essays in honour of Ton Dietz', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'People on the move'
In: M. Gosselink; M. Holtrop; R. Ross: 'Good Hope. South Africa and The Netherlands from 1600', Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017.
'Mensen op drift'
In: M. Gosselink; M. Holtrop; R. Ross: 'Goede Hoop. Zuid-Afrika en Nederland sinds 1600', Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017.
'Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world'
In: C. Panella: 'Worlds of debts: interdisciplinary perspectives on gold mining in West Africa', Amsterdam: Rozenberg, 2010.
'African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya'
In: A. Fraser; M. Larmer: 'Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism boom and bust on the globalized copperbelt', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
'Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction'
In: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald: 'The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2009.
'People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930'
In: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald: 'The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2009.
'Introduction'
In: J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola: 'One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2008.
'From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: M. Bollig; O. Bubenzer: 'African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches', New York: Springer, 2008.
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
In: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan: 'African Alternatives', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2007.
'Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940'
In: A. Rao; M. Bollig; M. Böck: 'The Practice of War: Production, reproduction and communication of armed violence', New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007.
'Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and its aftermath', Monmouth: Merlin Press, 2007.
'Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte?'
In: H. Melber: 'Genozid und Gedenken: Namibisch-Deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Beiträge zur Politik mit Kolonialer Vergangenheit', Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005.
'Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage'
In: A. Jones: 'Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen', Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH, 2005.
'Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht'
In: H. Melber: 'Genozid und Gedenken : Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart', Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, 2005.
'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction'
In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2004.
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'Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense'
In: A. Jones: 'Genocide, war crimes and the West : history and complicity', London: Zed Books, 2004.
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'Ovita ovia Zürn - "Zürn's Krieg"'
In: L. von Förster; D. Henrichsen; M. Bollig: 'Namibia-Deutschland : eine geteilte Geschichte : Widerstand, Gewalt, Erinnerung', Köln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 2004.
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'The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908'
In: D.L. Shelton: 'Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity', New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
'Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia'
In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden: Bril, 2004.
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'Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory'
In: G.J. Abbink; M.E. de Bruijn; K. van Walraven: 'Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2003.
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'The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas'
In: M. Bechhaus-Gerst; R. Klein-Arendt: 'Die (koloniale) Begegnung : AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland (1880-1945), Deutsche in Afrika (1880-1918)', Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2003.
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'Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen', Berlin: Links Verlag, 2003.
'Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen', Berlin: Links Verlag, 2003.
'A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner'
In: D. LeBeau; R.J. Gordon: 'Challenges for anthropology in the 'African Renaissance' : a Southern African contribution', Windhoek: University of Namibia Press, 2002.
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'Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: D.F. Bryceson: 'Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics', Portsmouth: NH : Heinemann, 2002.
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'Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933'
In: M. Bollig; J.B. Gewald: 'People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa', Köln: Köppe, 2000.
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'Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s'
In: W.J.G. Möhlig: 'Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias 1880-1930', Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2000.
'People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction'
In: M. Bollig; J.B. Gewald: 'People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa', Köln: Köppe, 2000.
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'Herero annual parades: commemorating to create'
In: H. Behrend; T. Geider: 'Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen', Köln: Köppe, 1998.
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'Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s'
In: W. Hartmann; P. Hayes; J. Silvester: 'The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history', Cape Town [etc.]: University of Cape Town Press, 1998.
'Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century'
In: C. Hamilton: 'The Mfecane Aftermath', Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 1995.
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'History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century'
In: J. van der Kle: 'Proceedings', Utrecht: Ceres, 1994.
Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history : a festschrift for Robert Ross
I. Peša; J.B. Gewald (editors)
African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), ASC occasional publications 26, 2017.
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African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations
A. Akinyoade; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 14, 2015.
Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 11, 2012.
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Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia
J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 21, 2011.
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The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
J.B. Gewald; S. Luning; K. van Walraven (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 13, 2009.
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One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia
J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 12, 2008.
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Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 6, 2007.
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Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 3, 2004.
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People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa
J.B. Gewald; M. Bollig (editors)
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; 13 2000.
'A contested ritual of unity: the Herero Red Flag Day'
in: Journal of ritual studies, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 56 - 74, 2017.
'Die Spanische Grippe in Afrika: Einige Anmerkungen zu Quellenlage und zukünftiger Forschung'
in: Periplus: Jahrbuch für Außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 152 - 174, 2011.
'On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld, colonial Namibia, 1916 -25'
in: Journal of African History, vol. 52, pp. 23 - 42, 2011.
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'Remote but in contact with history and the world'
in: PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 4 2010, vol. 107, no. 18, 2010.
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'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
in: African Diaspora, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 103 - 124, 2009.
'Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania'
in: African Historical Review, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1 - 27, 2008.
'More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium'
in: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 471 - 486, 2006.
'Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo?'
in: Journal of Southern African studies, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 559 - 576, 2004.
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'Ontwikkelingshulp faalt door onkunde'
in: NRC Handelsblad, no. 6 October, 2004.
'Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique'
in: Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens, vol. 58, no. 3000, pp. 977 - 987, 2003.
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'Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 211 - 239, 2003.
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'El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
in: Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 37 - 51, 2002.
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'Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940'
in: Journal of African cultural studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 105 - 117, 2002.
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'"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 211 - 234, 2002.
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'Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940'
in: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 35, no. 2/3, pp. 257 - 285, 2002.
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'El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
in: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 100, no. 401, pp. 555 - 580, 2001.
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'Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52'
in: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 1, no. 2, 2000.
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'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
in: Newsletter Namibia Scientific Society, vol. 41, no. 1-3, pp. 3 - 21, 2000.
'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'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 21 - 40, 1999.
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'The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908'
in: Itinerario : bulletin of the Leyden Centre for the History of European Expansion, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 97 - 104, 1995.
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'The great General of the Kaiser'
in: Botswana notes and records, vol. 26, pp. 67 - 76, 1994.
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'Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer'
International Review of Social History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 524 - 527, 2009.
''Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa' written by Stephen J. Rockel'
International Review of Social History, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 145 - 147, 2008.
''Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64' written by L.J. Butler'
Journal of African History, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 489 - 491, 2008.
''No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War' written by Timothy J. Stapleton'
Journal of Military History, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 296 - 297, 2008.
'Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier'
African affairs, vol. 105, no. 420, pp. 481 - 483, 2006.
'Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001'
Journal of African History, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 353 - 355, 2006.
'Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992)'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 186 - 187, 2005.
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'Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 377 - 377, 2005.
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'Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia)'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 173 - 175, 2005.
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'Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia'
International History Review, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 163 - 164, 2004.
'Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966'
Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533 - 536, 2003.
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'Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915)'
Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533 - 536, 2003.
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'Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland'
African studies review : the journal of the African Studies Association, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 122 - 125, 2002.
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'Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS'
Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 268 - 269, 2001.
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'Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966'
Journal of African History, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 157 - 158, 2001.
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'Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991'
African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 99, no. 397, pp. 670 - 671, 2000.
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'Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946'
The journal of African history, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 161 - 162, 2000.
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'Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt'
The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 138 - 139, 1999.
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'Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914'
The international history review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 928 - 930, 1997.
'Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa'
Leidschrift, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 123 - 131, 1994.
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