Women in Precolonial Africa - Oxford Research Encyclopedias
While women played key roles in the long term history of Africa, the Western analysis of African gender dynamics began to inform colonial policies, dominate world opinion, and shape academic research.
Documenting Precolonial Trade in Africa | Oxford Research …
This shows that trade and exchange constitute one of the most established cultural behaviors attested in the African past. Archaeological excavations at trading centers across Africa have greatly enhanced our understanding of precolonial trade and exchange in Africa.
Maps and Cartography in the History of South Africa: From Print to ...
The impact of African resistance to colonial surveys and land seizures on map making was for too long neglected by historians. By the end of World War I, the geopolitical boundaries of the region assumed their present configuration, marking off South Africa from its neighbors.
Interactions among Precolonial Foragers, Herders, and Farmers in ...
Proto-Khoe languages had a long history of separate development in East Africa before their arrival in the northern Kalahari approximately 2,500 years ago. 26 They propose that an early Proto-Khoe-Kwadi population originating in East Africa colonized southern Africa as small-stock forager-pastoralists almost a millennium before the arrival of ...
Cannabis and Tobacco in Precolonial and Colonial Africa
Tobacco helped sustain mercantilist and slave-trade economies, became a focus of colonial and postcolonial economic development efforts, and remains economically important. Cannabis was outlawed across most of the continent by 1920.
Disease Control and Public Health in Colonial Africa
The history of disease control in colonial Africa is marked by shifting rationales, medical paradigms, and interest groups. In sum, the short- and long-term effects of colonial disease-control measures on disease incidence, mortality, and …
Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa | Oxford Research ...
From Ancient Egypt to South Africa: Origins of Mining and Metallurgy in Precolonial Africa. To a considerable extent, today’s technologically “addicted” world is heavily reliant on mining and metallurgy. This industry is deeply embedded in multiple facets of society such as the technological, economic, and sociopolitical.
African Economic History and Historiography | Oxford Research ...
Although a brief episode in the long history of the African continent, the colonial period had a far-reaching impact on the lives of the African people and on the continent’s political, economic, and social systems and structures. The 1960s ushered in Africa’s postcolonial period.
History and Development of Education in Africa
Before colonization by European powers, many groups in Africa had a tradition of oral transmission of knowledge, although there were some significant exceptions of societies which had formal educational institutions.
Postcolonial Approaches to the Study of African Politics
Central to the field of postcolonial studies is the examination of colonial episteme and discourse, European racism, and imperial dominance. Broadly, postcolonialism analyzes the effects, and enduring legacies, of colonialism and disavows Eurocentric master-narratives.