[eBook Code] A Companion to African History (eBook Code, 1st)

Notes on Contributors ix

1 Introduction: Identities and (Mis)Representations 1
William H. Worger

PART I THE PERSONAL 13

2 Tracing the Roots of Common Sense about Sexuality in Africa 15
Marc Epprecht

3 Masculinities 35
Stephan F. Miescher

4 Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood 59
Nimi Wariboko

5 Settler Societies 77
Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson

PART II WOMEN’S ROLES IN INSTITUTIONS OF POWER 93

6 Women, Authority, and Power in Precolonial Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe 95
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

7 Love, Courtship, and Marriage in Africa 119
Nwando Achebe

8 Slavery and Women in Africa: Changing Definitions, Continuing Problems 143
Claire C. Robertson

PART III FAMILY AND COMMUNITY 161

9 Kinship in African History 163
James L. Giblin

10 Ethnicity in Southern Africa 179
Michael R. Mahoney

11 Ethnicity and Race in African Thought 199
Jonathon Glassman

12 Islam in African History 225
Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar

13 Refugees in African History 247
Brett Shadle

PART IV AFRICANS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 265

14 Science in Africa: A History of Ingenuity and Invention in African Iron Technology 267
Peter R. Schmidt

15 Africa and Environmental History 28
Gregory H. Maddox

16 Health and Medicine in African History 307
Karen E. Flint

17 Wealth and Poverty in African History 329
Morten Jerven

PART V AFRICANS AND THE WORLD 351

18 The Idea of the Atlantic World from an Africanist Perspective 353
Walter Hawthorne

19 Swahili Literature and the Writing of African History 367
Ann Biersteker

20 Africa and the Cold War 383
Timothy Scarnecchia

21 The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror 401
Awet T. Weldemichael

PART VI AFRICAN SELF‐REPRESENTATIONS 419

22 The Art of Memory and the Chancery of Sinnar 421
Jay Spaulding

23 Apartheid Forgotten and Remembered 431
Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger

24 Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in Southern Africa 459
Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi

25 African Historians and Popular Culture 483
Charles Ambler

Index 501