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A Romance of Slavery: Exploration, Encounters and Cartographies of Violence in H
A Romance of Slavery: Exploration, Encounters and Cartographies of Violence in H. M. Stanley’s My Kalulu Livingstone, J. (2017). A Romance of Slavery: Exploration, Encounters and Cartographies of Violence in H. M. Stanley’s My Kalulu. Studies in Travel Writing, 21(4), 349-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1406904 Published in: Studies in Travel Writing Document Version: Peer reviewed version Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal: Link to publication record in Queen's University Belfast Research Portal Publisher rights Copyright 2017 Taylor& Francis. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The Research Portal is Queen's institutional repository that provides access to Queen's research output. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable UK laws. If you discover content in the Research Portal that you believe breaches copyright or violates any law, please contact [email protected]. Download date:01. Oct. 2021 A Romance of Slavery: Exploration, Encounters and Cartographies of Violence in H. M. Stanley’s My Kalulu Justin D. Livingstone (Queen’s Research Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast) [email protected] 1 Abstract Crucial to the Victorian exploration of Africa were the books that travellers wrote on their return. -
September 23-29, 2019 Wheeler Opera House | Aspen Isis Theatre | Aspen Crystal Theatre | Carbondale
September 23-29, 2019 Wheeler Opera House | Aspen Isis Theatre | Aspen Crystal Theatre | Carbondale @aspenfilm #filmfest40 aspenfilm.org 2 Filmfest 2019 Official Program Guide | aspenfilm.org welcome LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ASPEN FILM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Hello and welcome to our 40th anniversary Filmfest! TO BOB RAFELSON FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE CINEMATIC ARTS I am gratified to be heading into my third consecutive year with Aspen Film. It is incredible that this organization has been creating inspiring cinematic experiences The tradition of Aspen Film began 40 years ago when our founder, in Aspen and beyond for four decades now. And it’s all thanks to you, our incredi- Ellen Hunt, had a vision for a small-scale but inspiring festival emphasiz- ble members, patrons and audiences. Thank you for supporting us and our mission ing an independent spirit. In its early days, Aspen Filmfest focused on to enlighten, enrich, educate and entertain through film! the work of American independent directors, but soon broadened its lineup to include the work of ground-breaking foreign directors as well. We’re incredibly proud of this year’s program, which focuses very much on family, Four decades later, we continue to showcase work from world-class artistry, perseverance and change-making, particularly in the face of adversity. independent filmmakers. The characters and subjects in our slate of 23 films are all heroes in their own To commemorate our 40th anniversary, we are presenting our first-ever right, illuminating new ways of helping, healing and enlightening a community or Aspen Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Cinematic the world in general. -
R. F. BURTON Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination
Open Cultural Studies 2017; 1: 591–603 Research Article Iolanda Ramos* R. F. BURTON Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0056 Received November 2, 2017; accepted December 31, 2017 Abstract: This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton—one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time—who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire and the imperial project, thus providing a contemporary perception of Victorian worldliness and outward endeavours. Keywords: Victorianism, empire-building, alternate history Introductory Remarks The English author Mark Hodder has so far written six volumes in the Burton & Swinburne literary series, the most recent being The Return of the Discontinued Man (2014) and The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats (2015). The series began with The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack (2010) and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (2011), and all the volumes can be examined from the point of view of alternate history, steampunk and the neo-Victorian imagination. In order to examine the combination of fact and fiction, this article includes information on Richard Francis Burton as a historical figure and looks at Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon (2012) and The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi (2013) so as to discuss the alternate history model used in the novels and the uses of steampunk and neo-Victorian conventions. -
A Checklist of the Land Mammals Tanganyika Territory Zanzibar
274 G. H. SWYNNERTON,F.Z.S., Checklist oj Land Mammals VOL. XX A Checklist of the Land Mammals OF mE Tanganyika Territory AND mE Zanzibar Protectorate By G. H. SWYNNERTON, F.Z.S., Game Warde:z, Game Preservation Department, Tanganyika Territory, and R. W. HAYMAN, F.Z.S., Senior Experimental Officer, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History) 277278·.25111917122896 .· · 4 . (1)(3)(-)(2)(5)(9)(3)(4)280290281283286289295288291 280. .. CONTENTS· · · No. OF FORMS* 1. FOREWORDINSECTIVORA ErinaceidaM:,gadermatidaEmballonuridaSoricidt:eMacroscelididaMarossidaNycteridaHipposideridaRhinolophidaVespertilionida(Shrews)(Free-tailed(Hollow-faced(Hedgehogs)(Horseshoe(Leaf-nosed(Sheath-tailed(Elephant(Simple-nosed(Big-earedBats)Bats)Shrews)BatsBats)Bats) Pteropodida (Fruit-eating Bats) 2.3. INTRODUCTIONSYSTEMATICLIST OF SPECIESAND SUBSPECIES: PAGE CHIROPTERA Chrysochlorida (Golden" Moles to) ···302306191210.3521. ·2387 . · 6 · IAN. (1)(2)1951(-)(4)(21)(1)(6)(14)(6)(5),(7)(8)333310302304306332298305309303297337324325336337339211327 . SWYNNERTON,. P.Z.S.,·· ·Checklist··· of·Land 3293Mammals52 275 PItIMATES G. It. RhinocerotidaPelidaEchimyidaHyanidaPongidaCercopithecidaHystricidaMuridaHominidaAnomaluridaPedetidaCaviidaMustelidaGliridaSciuridaViverrida(Cats,(Mice,(Dormice)(Guinea-pigs)(Apes)(Squirrels)(Spring(Hyaenas,(Genets,(Man)(Polecats,(Cane(porcupines)(Flying(Rhinoceroses)Leopards,(Monkeys,Rats,Haas)Rats)Civets,Arad-wolf).Weasels,Squirrels)Gerbils,Lions,Baboons)Mongooses)Ratels,etc.)•Cheetahs)..Otters) ProcaviidaCanidaLeporidaElephantidaLorisidaOrycteropodidaEquidaBathyergidaManida -
Tanzania, 19Th Century Karin Pallaver
Storicamente 8 - 2012 Muslim Communities, Long- distance Traders and Wage Labour along the Central Caravan Road Tanzania, 19th century Karin Pallaver Abstract This paper focuses on the areas of the interior of present-day Tanzania in the 19th century. The first sections are devoted to the analysis of the characteristics that can be considered as peculiar for the understanding of capitalism in the area: the development of trade and urban life, the emergence of a class of wage labourers and the influence of local political authorities on trade. A final section provides an overview of the available evidence on the earliest conversions to Islam in the interior, with special reference to the most important urban centres that developed along the central caravan road, connecting Bagamoyo, on the coast, to lakes Tanganyika and Victoria. Keywords: Long-distance trade; Muslim traders; Islam; Tanzania; 19th century DOI 10.1473/stor426 ISSN 1825-411X Art. No. 20 8 - 2012 ArchetipoLibri December 19th 2012 1 Muslim communities Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 2 International trade and local productions in nineteenth-century Tanzania ................................................ 3 Traders, Islam and political life in Tabora and Ujiji ........................................................................... 5 Conclusions ............................................................................................................................... -
Literature, Geography, and Poetics
The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of the Liberal Arts AFRICAN GENRES: LITERATURE, GEOGRAPHY, AND POETICS IN THE LONG EAST COAST A Dissertation in Comparative Literature by Michelle G. Decker © 2014 Michelle G. Decker Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2014 The dissertation of Michelle G. Decker was reviewed and approved* by the following: Eric Hayot Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies Dissertation Adviser Chair of Committee Head of the Department of Comparative Literature Gabeba Baderoon Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Studies Jonathan P. Eburne Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English Nergis Ertürk Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Christopher Reed Professor of English and Visual Culture *Signatures are on file in the Graduate School. ABSTRACT African Genres enacts a broad reassessment of academic and popular conceptions of “Africa” through analyzing written literatures from the Long East Coast. It demonstrates how geography, literary form, and interpretive practices interplay to formulate these broad conceptions. As a whole, the work demonstrates how interpretations of African geography affected its place in world history; discusses how the heuristic of genre shapes how Western readers read non-Western texts; and finally, calls for a reimagining of the limits and characteristics of an African poetics. In respective chapters, African Genres enacts close-readings of the form, content, and style of texts written between 1860 and 1970, a time period that intentionally bridges multiple colonialisms (Arab, European, and internal) and postcolonialisms. In this work, Zanzibar (along with the Swahili coast and East African interior), Egypt, and South Africa are the representative locations of the Long East Coast. -
Common Characteristics in Sukuma-Nyamwezi Transitional Dialects
The University of Dodoma University of Dodoma Institutional Repository http://repository.udom.ac.tz Humanities Master Dissertations 2015 Common characteristics in Sukuma-Nyamwezi transitional dialects. Joilet, Kamil The University of Dodoma Joilet, K. (2015). Common characteristics in Sukuma-Nyamwezi transitional dialects. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/732 Downloaded from UDOM Institutional Repository at The University of Dodoma, an open access institutional repository. COMMON CHARACTERISTICS IN SUKUMA-NYAMWEZI TRANSITIONAL DIALECTS BY Kamil Joilet A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master Degree of Arts in Linguistics in the University of Dodoma University of Dodoma October, 2015 CERTIFICATION The undersigned certifies that he has read and hereby recommends for acceptance by The University of Dodoma a dissertation entitled: Common Characteristics in Sukuma-Nyamwezi Transitional Dialects. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Linguistics of the University of Dodoma. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Stanislav Beletskiy (SUPERVISOR) Date: ------------------------------------------------------------ i DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT I, Joilet Kamil, declare that this thesis is my own original work and that it has not been presented and will not be presented to any other University for a similar or any other degree award. Signature:………………… … ………………..…… No part of this dissertation may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the author or the University of Dodoma. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would first and foremost like to record all praises and glory to the Almighty God for the strength and courage which he bestowed upon me during my entire education endeavor. -
Through the Dark Continent : Or, the Sources of the Nile, Around The
ASHER’S COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AUTHORS BRITISH AND AMERICAN. COPYRIGHT EDITION. VOL. 141. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT by H. M. STANLEY. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT; OR, THE SOURCES OF THE NILE, AROUND THE GREAT LAKES OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA, AND DOWN THE LIVINGSTONE RIVER TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. BY HENRY M. STANLEY, AUTHOR OF “HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE,” “COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA,’* “MY KALULU,” ETC. COPYRIGHT EDITION. WITH MAP OF THE AUTHOR’S ROUTE, COPIOUS APPENDIX, AND INDEX. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. HAMBURG. KARL GRÄDENER. 1878. All Rights reserved. DEDICATION THE HEARTY ENCOURAGEMENT AND LIBERAL MEANS WHICH ENABLED ME TO PERFORM THE MISSION ENTRUSTED TO ME, OF EXPLORING THE DARK CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND SOLVING MANY INTERESTING GEOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS, AND TO FITTINGLY REWARD THE FAITHFUL SURVIVORS, INDUCE ME TO MAKE PUBLIC MY DEEP PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, BY DEDICATING THESE VOLUMES, WHICH RECORD ITS RESULTS, TO THE PROMOTERS OF THE ENTERPRISE, MR. J. M. LEVY and MR. EDWARD L. LAWSON, Proprietors of the ‘Daily Telegraph,’ and MR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Proprietor of the ‘New York Herald,’ AND IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE GREAT AND CONSTANT INTEREST MANIFESTED BY HIM IN THE SUCCESS OF THE UNDERTAKING, I MUST BE PERMITTED TO ADD THE NAME OF MR. EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.I. AND F.R.G.8. WITHOUT THE PATRONAGE, FULL CONFIDENCE, AND CORDIAL SYMPATHY OF THESE GENTLEMEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THE TASK NOW HAPPILY COMPLETED. H. M. STANLEY. PREFACE. Before these volumes pass irrevocably out of the Author’s hands, I take this, the last, opportunity of addressing my readers. -
Heroes of Modern Africa, True Stories of the Intrepid Bravery and Stirring Adventures of the Pioneers, Explorers and Founders Of
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Youth and Therapeutic Insurgency in Eastern Congo: an Ethnographic History of Ruga-Ruga, Simba, and Mai-Mai Movements, 1870 - Present
Youth and Therapeutic Insurgency in Eastern Congo: An Ethnographic History of Ruga-Ruga, Simba, and Mai-Mai Movements, 1870 - Present by Jonathan Edwards Shaw A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2018 Doctoral Committee: Professor Nancy Rose Hunt, Co-chair Professor Derek Peterson, Co-Chair Professor Adam Ashforth Professor Mike McGovern Professor Koen Vlassenroot, Ghent University Jonathan Edwards Shaw [email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6337-434X © Jonathan Edwards Shaw 2018 2 Dedication For my sons. ii Acknowledgements This dissertation, whatever its weaknesses, is the product of significant labor, sacrifice, and commitment from many individual people and organizations. My field research would not have been possible without support from the Social Science Research Council’s Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship program. I particularly wish to thank Daniella Sarnoff for her support and encouragement. Field research was also funded by the United States Institute for Peace’s Jennings Randolph Fellowship program. Lili Cole proved an unstintingly supportive and flexible ally there. I am grateful to the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan for awarding me both a Humanities Fellowship as well as an International Research Fellowship. I thank Diana Denney and Kathleen King within the History Department at the University of Michigan for their aid in applying for those opportunities and for many other tangible and intangible forms of support during my career as a graduate student. I am thankful to have received an African Initiatives Grant from the African Studies Center and Department of African and Afro-american Studies at the University of Michigan, with particular gratitude to Anne Pitcher in that program. -
The Expansion and Significance of Violence in Early Modern Africa Richard Reid
Expansion of violence in early modern Africa 1 ‘None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he’: the expansion and significance of violence in early modern Africa Richard Reid Mwezi and Mirambo The quotation in the title belongs to the nineteenth-century explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley, who was writing in the context of the Nyamwezi people, in north-central Tanzania, in the 1870s.1 Stanley’s larger concern was Mirambo (c.1840–84), who was either, depending on one’s perspective, a great warrior and would-be state-builder, or an outright bandit and emblem of Africa’s savage, backward condition. What is clear is that this was a period of profound political, economic, and military upheaval, a transformative moment for the Nyamwezi and one replicated across the continent in the course of the nineteenth century. But the Stanley quotation is not in reference to Mirambo himself: rather, it reflected local memories of Mirambo’s supposed distant ancestor, an ‘ancient ruler’ called Mwezi, and thus represented a desire on the part of the revolutionary Mirambo – and on the part of the Nyamwezi in an age of revolution – to discern historical gravity and continuity in turbulent times. Mwezi may or may not have been an actual historical figure; but more importantly, in many ways, he was interpreted by Stanley’s informants as embodying two critical characteristics – the unstop- pable warrior with the ability to wield maximum force on the field of combat, and the wise, judicious ruler. On the one hand, Mirambo himself was keen not to be seen as a mere upstart with newly acquired firearms, but rather as the modern incarnation of an illustrious predecessor, his violence restorative and aimed at the re-creation of unity and stability. -
Experiences from Buha and Unyamwezi, Western Tanzania
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 5, No. 10; October 2015 Indigenous Beliefs and Healing In Historical Perspective: Experiences from Buha and Unyamwezi, Western Tanzania Salvatory Stephen Nyanto Ph.D. (History) Candidate, University of Iowa Assistant Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam P. O. Box 35031, Dar es Salaam-Tanzania Abstract This paper explores the relations between indigenous beliefs and healing practices in Buha and Unyamwezi in Western Tanzania. I argue that beliefs and healing practices are an integral part of the lives of the people in the region. Diseases, misfortunes and religion have coexisted for many centuries and affect people’s lives and their relationship with the deities. Medicine--whether physical, spiritual, or psychological--is used to cure, heal, protect, and to ensure people’s health and wellbeing of the society. Ideas on healing and religiosity are neither homogenous nor static. They vary from one place to another and change in response to changing social contexts. This paper relies on oral interviews and secondary sources to provide an account of healing and religiosity in Buha and Unyamwezi and the changes that have shaped the two from the late pre-colonial period to the present. It employs a comparative approach to examine healing and religiosity on societies that have different social and cultural backgrounds. Keywords: Indigenous Beliefs, Healing, Buha, Unyamwezi 1. Introduction In traditional cosmologies, healing and religiosity are an integral part of people’s lives. The centrality of healing and religiosity has existed since time immemorial to solve issues arising from the intersections of members of families, clans and societies.