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African Journal of History and Culture
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This is an Open Access Journal

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ISSN (Print) 2141-6672
Published by Academic Journals

[33 journals]

Changes in the customary marriage traditions and their implication for the
girl child: A gender perspective
- Abstract: In Ghana, customary marriage traditions have witnessed some level of changes. This study examined these changes and their implications for the girl child development, using the Gurishies of Bongo in the Upper East Region as a case. Purposive and quota sampling techniques were employed to select 41 participants in a case study design. Face to face interview was employed in gathering primary d...
  PubDate: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +010
The copper mine at Hofret en Nahas, Sudan
- Abstract: Copper is the worlds third most important metal after iron and aluminium. It has been used for thousands of years and continues to be an important item in manufacturing, medicine, construction and the electrical industries. The world has enormous reserves of copper ore: It is found in many African countries. Sudan has considerable resources in the Red Sea area and in the southwest of the cou...
  PubDate: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +010
Investigating the origin, elements and motivations of the Anglophone
crisis in Cameroon
- Abstract: Over the last five decades, the status of Anglophones in Cameroon as marginalized has surfaced in political and religious spaces, illustrating the politics of oppression that has persisted since the amalgamation of East and West Cameroon into the United Republic of Cameroon on May 20, 1972. Anglophone marginalization operates at various levels in the unitary state, with varying impacts. The ...
  PubDate: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +010
Sociocultural conservation strategies of prioritized medicinal plants,
their historical context and space for integration
- Abstract: The conservation of medicinal plants must be an all-inclusive endeavor that factors in the contribution of all stakeholders, both formal and informal. This paper highlights the importance of sociocultural aspects in the conservation of medicinal plant sources and resources using both traditional and modern conservation strategies. Efficacious traditional conservation strategies that featured...
  PubDate: Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +010
Zulu monarchy land engagements and the Section 25 of the South African
constitution
- Abstract: This work is an attempt to highlight some landmarks in how the Zulu descendants engaged the issue of land with the settlers of any time in South Africa. The method of telling as it happened is a way to confront the history and try to find a natural way of rectifying land rights in settings where the customary land tenure system was overturned by the fortress based on the Western ways of land...
  PubDate: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +010
Assessing the state (physical and functional) of the heritage buildings in
Lagos State
- Abstract: Heritage buildings form a critical part of the cultural heritage of any people or group, recognized by the United Nations with several international charters formed to promote, protect, and preserve them. This study assessed the physical and functional state of heritage buildings within Lagos State and determined their preferred state. The study was conducted through questionnaires and case ...
  PubDate: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +010
Sociocultural bound illnesses or syndromes: Voices from the traditional
medicine markets
- Abstract: The culture of the people is central to the traditional medicine knowledge, uses and trade. This indigenous knowledge is orally passed from one generation to the next and is shared through efficacious communication with the ancestral spirits, dreams and oral narratives. This traditional medicine knowledge is invaluable in the treatment of sociocultural illnesses or syndromes, for instance, b...
  PubDate: Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +010
Modernism and the Change of African Gender Relations: Historical
Discourses
- Abstract: Globally, cases of the so called gender inequality are on increase as social transformation towards modernity and liberal lives. This situation has seriously been contested and reported on matters related to land ownership, employment, education, gender-based violence, marriage lives, decision-making, power struggles, freedom of choice and so forth. Despite its existence, it has been evolvin...
  PubDate: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +010
Cultural astronomy in Uganda from the perspectives of the Acholi,
Banyankole, Iteso and Lugbara
- Abstract: Cultural astronomy in Uganda has been explored a second time considering another set of four ethnic groups, giving a wide range of perspectives in the subject and setting a baseline for exploring cultural astronomy in other African countries. Qualitative data have been collected using interviews and questionnaire survey, conducted with mutual consent of the respondents. Both purposive sampli...
  PubDate: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +010
The origin and disappearance of the Wambambali tradition and the
succeeding Wagogo communities in Dodoma: Oral stories from elders
- Abstract: The current fast growth of the city of Dodoma in central Tanzania threatens cultural heritage materials scattered on the landscape. However, natural processes such as weathering and erosion also add to this threat. Earlier, we reported on the existence of two cultural traditions on this landscape, the Middle Stone Age artefacts and the much younger Wambambali tradition based on pottery, grin...
  PubDate: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +010