Browsing Journals by Subject "Colonialism"
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70 Years after the UDHR: A Provocative Reflection Shaped by African Experiences
(PER/PELJ, 2020)The 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights presents an opportunity for critical reflections from the Global South on why the dream of universalising the rights contained in this ... -
Colonial administrators, indigenous leaders, and missionaries: Contesting the education of the Swazi child, 1921-1939
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The study of Swazi historical affairs in the colonial period has remained patchy. The historian is confronted by numerous gaps that make it difficult to get a comprehensive view of the development of the history of the ... -
Constitutionalism and coloniality: A case of colonialism continued or the best of both worlds?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)This article deals with the concept of constitutionalism in relation to colonialism and modernity, with a specific emphasis upon South Africa and South African constitutional development. The Republic of South ... -
The development of Afrocentricity: A historical survey
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)The origin of the Afrocentric philosophy cannot be established with certainty. The most influential book advocating it was published in 1954. Marcus Garvey was one of the most influential propagators of the ideology. ... -
Ghana, cocoa, colonialism and globalisation: Introducing historiography.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The recently implemented curriculum for secondary History in South African schools - as set out in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS, 2011) - presents no explicit statement of the view of history ... -
The resonance of colonial era customary codes in contemporary Uganda
(PER/PELJ, 2019)Colonial era codifications of customary law – especially those codified in indigenous first languages – have a resilient capacity to form and inform living customary law. In the context of Mukono District, Uganda, modern ... -
Teaching World War I: An exploratory study of representations of the Great War in contemporary African textbooks
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)far-reaching consequences, a violent episode of unprecedented magnitude which affected millions of lives and which brought lasting change to the world in which we live. One hundred years after the outbreak of this global ... -
Through Livingstone’s eyes: perspectives on water in nineteenth-century Southern Africa (1849-56)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: David Livingstone (1813–1873) was deel van ‘n merkwaardige geslag ontdekkingsreisigers wat in die negentiende eeu Afrika vir die Engelssprekende wêreld oopgestel het. In Missionary travels and researches in ... -
Traditional Leadership and Independent Bantustans of South Africa: Some Milestones of Transformative Constitutionalism beyond Apartheid
(2009)The institution of traditional leadership represents the early form of societal organisation. It embodies the preservation of culture, traditions, customs and values. This paper gives a brief exposition of the impact that ...