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African Journal of History and Culture
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ISSN (Print) 2141-6672
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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: Where the Arab and African Worlds Collide
- Abstract: This paper explores the extent to which the British colonial administration was responsible for the post-colonial conflict between North and South Sudan. Throughout the Anglo-Egyptian regime, British administrators continuously separated the Northern and Southern regions on a socio-economic basis while maintaining political unity. The combination of these policies was likely the root cause b...
  PubDate: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +010
The religious motivation in raise and collapse of El-Mahdiyya government
from 1880-1898, and its effect on the modern Sudan: Sudanese religious
conflicts 4
- Abstract: The objective of this article is to narrate and discuss the evolution of an Islamic movement established in 1880 by a religious leader named Mohamed Ahmed, who claimed spiritual inspiration. The theocratic government that emerged from this movement came to an end in 1898 due to the cooperation of Anglo-Egyptian troops. The article evaluates the key elements that motivated the religious leade...
  PubDate: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +010
Hanging by the fibre of a woven cultural thread: Religious body marks of
the indigenous Ga Ethnic Group of Ghana
- Abstract: Body marking is one of the oldest traditions in indigenous ethnic groups and is viewed today as one of the simplest ways to associate an individual with a unique identity, whether for identification, beautification, or religious inclinations. However, in recent times, the practice of body marking has dwindled due to the advocacy for human rights and the condemnation of practices considered i...
  PubDate: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +010
Self-writing in postcolonial criticism: A survey of some fundamental
problems (II)
- Abstract: This paper surveys a few fundamental problems that relate to postcolonial self-writing in the context of global capitalism. It advances the claim that self-writing in Anglophone Postcolonial Criticism discloses an obsessive, reductionist tenet when addressing the gaps in imperial ideology, especially with the existence of an engrafted, ubiquitous protectionism from the part of the postcoloni...
  PubDate: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +010
Bride wealth payment and girl child development challenges in Ghana:
Recounting the narratives
- Abstract: Bride wealth payment is deeply rooted in most customary marriages in Ghana. This study examines how these entrenched practices undermine the development of the girl child, using the Bongo District in Ghana as a case study. Data were collected from 40 participants who were purposively selected in a case study design. Primary data were generated through interviews, and thematic data analysis w...
  PubDate: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +010
Peasantry and economic violence in Cameroon rural milieu: An
ethnosociology of the Lomie subdivision in the second decade of the 21st
century
- Abstract: The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the peasant populations of Lomi, as well as rural populations in Cameroon and Africa more broadly, are experiencing a significant disruption in their connection with nature due to the economic impact of forestry and hunting capitalism entering African peasant communities. In the case of the studied villages in Lomi, it becomes evident that t...
  PubDate: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +010
Equines on the Islands of Malta from the tenth to the twenty-first
centuries AD
- Abstract: Donkeys probably first arrived on Malta 3000 years ago. The first written record appears in the late tenth century when wild donkeys were present on an unoccupied Malta and were captured by itinerant traders for export, mainly to Sicily. In 1091 Sicily invaded Malta and confiscated all the inhabitants horses and mules. Horse numbers declined from 600 animals in 1565 to 130 by 1638. Donkeys w...
  PubDate: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +010
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

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