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Author |
: Jean-Pierre Chrétien |
Publisher |
: Mit Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1890951358 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781890951351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Lakes of Africa by : Jean-Pierre Chrétien
The first English-language publication of a major history of the Great Lakes region of Africa. Though the genocide of 1994 catapulted Rwanda onto the international stage, English-language historical accounts of the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa--which encompasses Burundi, eastern Congo, Rwanda, western Tanzania, and Uganda--are scarce. Drawing on colonial archives, oral tradition, archeological discoveries, anthropologic and linguistic studies, and his thirty years of scholarship, Jean-Pierre Chr tien offers a major synthesis of the history of the region, one still plagued by extremely violent wars. This translation brings the work of a leading French historian to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Chr tien retraces the human settlement and the formation of kingdoms around the sources of the Nile, which were "discovered" by European explorers around 1860. He describes these kingdoms' complex social and political organization and analyzes how German, British, and Belgian colonizers not only transformed and exploited the existing power structures, but also projected their own racial categories onto them. Finally, he shows how the independent states of the postcolonial era, in particular Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, have been trapped by their colonial and precolonial legacies, especially by the racial rewriting of the latter by the former. Today, argues Chr tien, the Great Lakes of Africa is a crucial region for historical research--not only because its history is fascinating but also because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulations of its past.
Author |
: Eric O. Odada |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2006-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780306482014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0306482010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity by : Eric O. Odada
The Second International Symposium on the East African Lakes was held from 10-15 January 2000 at Club Makokola on the southern shore of Lake Malawi. The symposium was organized by the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL), a research consortium of African, European and North American scientists interested in promoting the investigations of African Great Lakes as archives of environmental and climatic dynamics. Over one hundred African, European and North American scientists with special expertise in the tropical lakes participated in the symposium which featured compelling presentations on the limnology, climatology, palaeoclimatology and biodiversity of the East African Lakes. It is their papers that comprise this book. The large lakes of East Africa are important natural resources that are heavily utilized by their bordering countries for transportation, water supply, fisheries, waste disposal, recreation and tourism. The lakes are unique in many ways: they are sensitive to climatic change and their circulation dynamics, water-column chemistry and biological complexity differ significantly from large lakes at higher latitudes; they have long, continuous, high resolution records of past climatic change; and they have rich and diverse populations of endemic organisms. These unique properties and the significance of the palaeolimnological records demand and attract research interest from around the world.
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: |
Publisher |
: UNEP/Earthprint |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9280726943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789280726947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa's Lakes by :
Prepared as part of UNEP's contribution to the 11th World Lakes Conference (held in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2005), this publication examines the environmental changes taking place to Africa's lakes by analysing ground photographs, current and historical satellite images and scientific evidence. Changes highlighted include the rapid shrinking of Lake Songor in Ghana, partly as a result of intensive salt production, and the extraordinary changes in the Zambezi river system as a result of the building of the Cabora Basa dam site. Other impacts, some natural and some human-made and which can only be truly appreciated from space, include the extensive deforestation around Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and the falling water levels of Lake Victoria which is now about a metre lower than it was in the early 1990s. The analysis recognises the importance of Africa's lakes as a source of livelihoods for many local communities, their contribution to the socio-economic development of the continent and the need for the sustainable management of these resources in order to help overcome poverty and meet internationally agreed development goals by 2015.
Author |
: Geoffrey Fryer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 698 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924003688383 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cichlid Fishes of the Great Lakes of Africa: Their Biology and Evolution by : Geoffrey Fryer
Author |
: Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 590 |
Release |
: 1860 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015011329532 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lake Regions of Central Africa by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Author |
: Geoffrey Fryer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 680 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822003867082 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cichlid Fishes of the Great Lakes of Africa: Their Biology and Evolution by : Geoffrey Fryer
Author |
: Henri Médard |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2007-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821445747 |
ISBN-13 |
: 082144574X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa by : Henri Médard
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region. Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa than often has been assumed, and Africans from the interior played a more complex role than was previously recognized. The essays in this collection reveal the connections between the peoples of the region as well as their encounters with the conquering Europeans. The contributors challenge the assertion that domestic slavery increased in Africa as a result of the international trade. Slavery in this region was not a uniform phenomenon and the line between enslaved and non-slave labor was fine. Kinship ties could mark the difference between free and unfree labor. Social categories were not always clear-cut and the status of a slave could change within a lifetime. Contents: - Introduction by Henri Médard - Language Evidence of Slavery to the Eighteenth Century by David Schoenbrun - The Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi 1860–1900 by Jan-Georg Deutsch - Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo 1850–1910 by David Northrup - Legacies of Slavery in North West Uganda ‘The One-Elevens’ by Mark Leopold - Human Booty in Buganda: The Seizure of People in War, c.1700–c.1900 by Richard Reid - Stolen People & Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda by Holly Hanson - Women’s Experiences of Slavery in Late Nineteenth- & Early Twentieth-Century Uganda by Michael W. Tuck - Slavery & Social Oppression in Ankole 1890–1940 by Edward I. Steinhart - The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the Beginning of German Colonisation 1890–1906 by Jean-Pierre Chretien - Bunyoro & the Demography of Slavery Debate by Shane Doyle
Author |
: Joseph Thomson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1881 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3146315 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis To the Central African Lakes and Back by : Joseph Thomson
Author |
: Stefaan Marysse |
Publisher |
: Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2006-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1403949506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781403949509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region of Africa by : Stefaan Marysse
This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa. The horrendous consequences in terms of violence and human suffering of the events in this area have been exhibited in the media, however news coverage after 1994 was at times unreliable. This book takes a look at life since then, adopting an independent, and on occasion controversial perspective.
Author |
: Martin Williams |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2019-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316832790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316832791 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nile Basin by : Martin Williams
The Nile Basin contains a record of human activities spanning the last million years. However, the interactions between prehistoric humans and environmental changes in this area are complex and often poorly understood. This comprehensive book explains in clear, non-technical terms how prehistoric environments can be reconstructed, with examples drawn from every part of the Nile Basin. Adopting a source-to-sink approach, the book integrates events in the Nile headwaters with the record from marine sediment cores in the Nile Delta and offshore. It provides a detailed record of past environmental changes throughout the Nile Basin and concludes with a review of the causes and consequences of plant and animal domestication in this region and of the various prehistoric migrations out of Africa into Eurasia and beyond. A comprehensive overview, this book is ideal for researchers in geomorphology, climatology and archaeology.