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The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Carola Lentz --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThe contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the role of national days in state-making and nation-building,... -
‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’: changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Wendy Willems --- Department of Media and Communications, United KingdomAs part of a revival of cultural nationalism, state-led national-day celebrations intensified in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s through the introduction of popular music events alongside the traditional official, militarised ceremony. Independence Day, in particular, provided ZANU-PF with an excellent... -
From ‘One Namibia, one Nation’ towards ‘Unity in Diversity’? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990–2010
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Uusiku Akuupa --- Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Godwin Kornes --- Dept. of Anthropology and African Studies, GermanyIn 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the country's capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of maturing nationhood, symbolically embracing postcolonial policy concepts such as ‘national... -
The rise of the BRICS and resource nationalism: challenge and opportunity for Africa's innovation systems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Michael Kahn --- Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, South AfricaA new ‘scramble for Africa’ is presently underway. Unlike that of the late 19th century, this second scramble does not rely upon the capture of assets through extra-territorial force. This time around the capture is not overtly violent, being advanced... -
The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Carola Lentz --- Department of Anthropology and African Studies, GermanyThe contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the role of national days in state-making and nation-building,... -
‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’: changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Wendy Willems --- Department of Media and Communications, United KingdomAs part of a revival of cultural nationalism, state-led national-day celebrations intensified in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s through the introduction of popular music events alongside the traditional official, militarised ceremony. Independence Day, in particular, provided ZANU-PF with an excellent... -
From ‘One Namibia, one Nation’ towards ‘Unity in Diversity’? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990–2010
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Uusiku Akuupa --- Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Godwin Kornes --- Dept. of Anthropology and African Studies, GermanyIn 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the country's capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of maturing nationhood, symbolically embracing postcolonial policy concepts such as ‘national... -
“Broederbande” [brotherly bonds]: Afrikaner nationalist masculinity and African sexuality in the writings of Werner Eiselen's students, Stellenbosch University, 1930–1936
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Bank --- History Department, South AfricaThe importance of Willi Werner Max Eiselen (1899–1977) as the lecturer, supervisor and mentor of the first generation of volkekundiges at Stellenbosch University has been greatly underestimated. He supervised no fewer than 11 MA and doctoral theses in this field... -
Fathering volkekunde: race and culture in the ethnological writings of Werner Eiselen, Stellenbosch University, 1926–1936
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew Bank --- History Department, South AfricaWerner Willi Max Eiselen (1899–1977) has been celebrated for having consolidated the liberal functionalist school of social anthropology in South Africa. In the standard androcentric narrative, David Hammond-Tooke (1997) argues that during his decade-long tenure as head of “Bantology” at... -
Frontiers of freedom: race, landscape and nationalism in the coastal cultures of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Leslie Bank --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, South AfricaThe idea that whiteness is not a natural category but one which requires construction, maintenance and investment has provoked a rich scholarship, including in South Africa. The scholarship on whiteness in southern Africa has been marked, in particular, by a... -
Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jane Parish --- Sociology, United KingdomAmong Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to... -
Reinscriptions of “stateless” socialities in South Africa: some thoughts on “Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Jo’burg’s ‘little Mogadishu’”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Daniel K. Thompson --- Department of Anthropology, United States of AmericaIn this commentary, Daniel K. Thompson critically assesses Nereida Ripero-Muñiz and Salym Fayad’s photo essay, “Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey through Jo’burg’s ‘Little Mogadishu.’ The essay is published alongside this commentary. -
Sobukwe’s children: nationalism, neo-liberalism and the student protests at the University of Fort Hare and in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Leslie J. Bank --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaThis article explores the provocation of the former vice-chancellor of the University of Fort Hare, Dr Mvuyo Tom — made at the university’s centenary celebrations in 2016 — that the #FeesMustFall (#FMF) movement was a misguided and destructive millenarian movement,... -
Tales of Political Monuments in Malawi: Re-storying National History
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Junior Lipenga --- English Department, MalawiCountries in Africa have many monuments memorialising specific figures and events in the history of their nations. Statuaries feature prominently among these monuments. This paper examines the positioning of three statues in Malawi. One of the statues is that of... -
Britain and Brexit: imagining an essentialist sense of “Britishness” and navigating amongst “the British”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nigel Rapport --- , United KingdomIn his analysis of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet control, Georges Devereux argued that social movements exist not because members exhibit attitudinal uniformity but because in the “same” collective act individuals serendipitously find a socially acceptable expression for their... -
Persistent essentialism in Polish nationalist discourse: a Wittgensteinian critique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Witold Jacorzynski --- , MexicoEssentialism, an erroneous way of thinking that can be traced to classical philosophy, assumes a thing to hold necessary intrinsic characteristics. Such thinking has been commonly employed for a popular understanding of bounded groups of people, establishing imaginary communities and... -
Modernisation from the Shadows: Conspiracy, Monasticism and Techno-Utopia in the Amharic novel Dertogada
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sara Marzagora --- , UK Tom Boylston --- , UKThe Amharic novel Dertogada (2009) was a smash hit in Ethiopia, launching Yismake Worku’s career as one of the most popular Amharic writers of the last decade. This paper explores Dertogada’s huge cultural influence by tracing its unique synthesis between... -
Narrating Kenyan Silenced Histories through Fiction in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Amos Burkeywo --- , KenyaThe primary focus of this paper is to examine the intersection of history and fiction in Yvonne Owuor’s novel Dust to unearth silenced (hi)stories in colonial and postcolonial Kenya while locating the text within its historical context. By examining intersection... -
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaSeveral critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up...