Historical Dictionary of Mozambique, New Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on ...important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Celem artykułu jest zbadanie relacji pomiędzy zwierzęcością i śmiercią we współczesnej literaturze postkolonialnej pochodzącej z luzofońskiej części Afryki (czyli dawnych kolonii portugalskich), ze ...szczególnym uwzględnieniem powieści Wyznanie lwicy (A confissão da leoa) autorstwa mozambickiego pisarza Mii Couto. Jego twórczość znana jest z zainteresowania animizmem i tym, co nadprzyrodzone, stąd często kategoryzuje się ją pod szyldem „magicznego realizmu”. Jednakże w Wyznaniu lwicy Mia Couto zajmuje się raczej złożonym związkiem pomiędzy ludzką i zwierzęcą śmiercią, co wedle autora artykułu należy odczytywać z zupełnie innej perspektywy: wielorakie transmutacje postaci w fabule powieści wskazują na postkolonialne pragnienie renegocjowania granic pomiędzy zwierzęcością a tym, co (trans)ludzkie.
Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin,Bound for Worklooks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that ...individuals-under more or less coercive circumstances-engaged in over the course of their lives. Tracing Mozambican workers as they moved between different types of labor across Mozambique, Rhodesia, and South Africa, Zachary Kagan Guthrie places the multiple venues of labor in a single historical frame, expanding the regional historiography beyond the long shadow cast by the apartheid state while simultaneously exploring the continuities and fractures between South Africa, southern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Kagan Guthrie's holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers' choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.
In the tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers, an unforgettable exploration of the trials of daily life in Mozambique, long heralded as Africa's "rising star"
Over the past ...twenty-five years, Mozambique has charted a path of dizzying economic growth nearly as steep as China's, making it among the fastest-growing economies on the planet. But most Mozambicans have little to show for the long boom; to travel in Mozambique is to see much of the promise of development as a mirage. And in the fall of 2016, a debt crisis unraveled layers of corruption that reverberated across Europe, heralding what many in the financial world feared might be the beginning of a "global financial shockwave" (The Guardian).
Go Tell the Crocodiles explores the efforts of ordinary people to provide for themselves where foreign aid, the formal economy, and the government have fallen short. Author Rowan Moore Gerety tells the story of contemporary Mozambique through the heartbreaking and fascinating lives of real people, from a street kid who flouts Mozambique's child labor laws to make his living selling muffins, to a riverside community that has lost dozens of people to crocodile attacks. Moore Gerety introduces us to a nation still coming to grips with a long civil war and the legacy of colonialism even as it wrestles with the toll of infectious disease and a wave of refugees, weaving stories together into a stunning account of the challenges facing countries across Africa.
The historical literature devoted the Great War in Africa is dominated by the struggle between the German forces, superbly commanded by the initially lieutenant colonel, and finally general major ...Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and units of the British Empire. The main reason of such situation is that in the east of Africa, the Germans continued fighting until the ceasefire in Western Europe in November 1918. In this narrative, there is relatively little room for a broader description of the struggles between the Germans and the Portuguese in Mozambique. The Luzytan military effort was described mainly, and at the same time disapprovingly, by the British. The impression appears that Albion deprecating the Iberian ally tried to dump a significant portion of the responsibility for the South-East Africa failures. The intention of the author of this text is to show Portuguese actions in an objective manner, not burdened with the British imperial narrative. It serves, above all, the use of Portuguese materials. This is – according to the author’s knowledge – the first such attempt in the area of Polish historical-military literature. The author discussed the course of armed operations between the Portuguese and German forces and their impact on the findings of international conferences building a new balance of power after the end of the Great War.
This chronology for 2004 to 2013 compiles the chapters on Mozambique previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara.
This is an eloquent, engaged and extremely well informed narrative of the environmental and natural resource conservation and management issues in Mozambique. While the topics in this volume are ...diverse, they are all explicitly designed to move beyond the routinized blame of natural resource mismanagement and environmental degradation on local communities, and to rethink ecosystem destruction, land degradation and natural resource over-exploitation in Africa and beyond. Never losing sight of the major causes of environment and resource mismanagement in Mozambique, the book advances the thesis that environment and resource problems are a result of compound factors such as poor governance, poverty, corruption, low education levels, and disregard of endogenous conservation epistemologies. A combination of all these factors makes the whole terrain of conservation even more complicated than ever; hence the need for urgent action by all social actors. This is a valuable book for environmental conservationists, land resource managers, social ecologists, environmental anthropologists, environmental field workers and technicians, practitioners and students of conservation sciences.
Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive,Slavery by Any Other Nametells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late ...nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter and built a vast forced labor regime camouflaged by the rhetoric of the civilizing mission.
Oral testimonies from more than one hundred Mozambican elders provide a vital counterpoint to the perspectives of colonial officials detailed in the archival records of the Mozambique Company. Putting elders' voices into dialogue with officials' reports, Eric Allina reconstructs this modern form of slavery, explains the impact this coercive labor system had on Africans' lives, and describes strategies they used to mitigate or deflect its burdens. In analyzing Africans' responses to colonial oppression, Allina documents how some Africans succeeded in recovering degrees of sovereignty, not through resistance, but by placing increasing burdens on fellow Africans-a dynamic that paralleled developments throughout much of the continent.
This volume also traces the international debate on slavery, labor, and colonialism that ebbed and flowed during the first several decades of the twentieth century, exploring a conversation that extended from the backwoods of the Mozambique-Zimbabwe borderlands to ministerial offices in Lisbon and London.Slavery by Any Other Namesituates this history of forced labor in colonial Africa within the broader and deeper history of empire, slavery, and abolition, showing how colonial rule in Africa simultaneously continued and transformed past forms of bondage.
Batı Anadolu'da yüzlek veren Menderes Masifi kuzeyde Afyon Zonu, güneyde ise Likya napları tarafından tektonik olarak üzerlenmektedir. Öte yandan kuzeybatıda, Kikladik Kompleks ve onu üzerleyen Likya ...naplarından yapılı Alpin yaşlı yüksek basınç üniteleri ve Izmir-Ankara Zonu'na ait naplar Masif'i tektonik olarak sınırlar. Menderes Masifi'nin kaya istifi; 1-Pan-Afrikan temel (çekirdek serisi) ve 2-Paleozoyik-Erken Tersiyer yaşlı seri (örtü serisi) olmak üzere iki ana üniteye ayrılmaktadır. Pan-Afrikan temel, kısmen migmatitleşmiş metakırıntılı bir seri ve bunlar içerisine sokulmuş polimetamorfik asidik ve bazik derinlik kayalarından yapılı bir stratigrafiye sahiptir. Paragnays ve onu uyumlu olarak üzerleyen şist birimlerinden yapılı, kalınlığı sekiz km ye ulaşan metaklastikler Menderes Masifi' nin Pan-Afrikan temelinin en yaşlı kayalarını oluşturur. Arazi bulguları ve jeokronolojik veriler paragnaysların ilksel kayalarının baskın olarak litarenit bileşimli kumtaşları olduğunu göstermektedir. Paragnayslar çamurtaşı ve subarkozik kumtaşından türeme mika şist ve biyotit-albit şistlerle ardalanmakta ve yanal giriklikler göstermektedir. Paragnayslar uyumlu ve geçişli bir dokanakla şist birimi tarafından üzerlenir. Geçiş zonu, kesiksiz bir kırıntılı tortul çökelimini gösterecek şekilde paragnays ve şist ardalanmasından yapılıdır. Şist birimi çamurtaşlarından türeme mikaşistlerce baskın olup ilksel kayaları subarkoz olan biyotit-albit şist düzeyleri içerir. Metakırıntılı seri Masif'in genelinde yaygın migmatitleşme göstermektedir. Anatektik granitler migmatitler içerisinde geçişli dokanaklar sunan, şekilsiz kütleler şeklinde bulunmaktadır. Menderes Masifi'nin genelinde paragnayslardan ayrılan detritik zirkonlar 613-2558 My arasında değişen yaşlar vermiştir. Bunların yanı sıra, PanAfrikan temele ait şistlerdeki detritik zirkonlardan 592-3239 My arasında değişen yaşlar elde edilmiştir. Metakırıntılı seri ile açık intruzif dokanak ilişkileri sunan ortognaysların kristalizasyon yaşlarının ise 520 - 570 My arasında değiştiği belirlenmiştir. Öte yandan paragnaysları etkileyen granulit fasiyesi metamorfizması 583±5.7 My olarak yaşlandırılmıştır. Bu jeokronolojik veriler ve dokanak ilişkileri, Pan-Afrikan temel içerisindeki metakırıntılı serinin ilksel tortullarının çökeliminin yaklaşık 590-580 My arasında (Geç Neoproterozoyik) gerçekleştiğini göstermektedir. Metaklastik seri, ortognaysların ilksel kayaları olan dev boyutlu granitoid kütleleri ve gabroik stoklar tarafından kesilmektedir. Farklı mineralojik bileşim ve dokusal özelliğe sahip ortognaysların ilksel granitlerinin sokulum yaşları 550 My da yoğunlaşacak şekilde 520-570 My arasında değişmektedir. Biyotit ortognays, amfibol ortognays ve turmalin lökokratik ortognays olmak üzere üç ana gruba ayrılan bu granitler Pan-Afrikan orojenezi sırasında veya izleyen evrede metakırıntılı seri içerisine sokulmuş, ayni asidik magmatik aktivitenin ayrımlaşmış ürünleridir. Pan-Afrikan temel içerisinde bazik magmatikler gabro-norit bileşimindedir. Iç kesimlerinde masif yapıları korunmuş olan gabroların kenar zonları Pan-Afrikan temelin çoklu metamorfik evrimini yansıtacak şekilde, kalıntı eklojitik kesimler içeren granatlı amfibolitlerden yapılıdır. Arazi verileri ve radyometrik yaşlar, PanAfrikan temel ile Paleozoyik örtü arasındaki ilksel dokanak ilişkisinin bir uyumsuzluk (Pan-Afrikan sonrası uyumsuzluk) olduğunu ve örtü serilerinin Pan-Afrikan temelden beslendiğini açıkça ortaya koymaktadır. Pan-Afrikan temeldeki paragnays ve şistlerin ilksel kayalarının, Geç Neoproterozoyik'te Doğu ve Batı Gondvana arasında yer alan bir havzanın (Mozambik okyanusu) pasif kıta kenarı ortamında çökeldiği düşünülmektedir. Öte yandan Pan-Afrikan temelden elde edilen tüm magmatik ve metamorfik yaşlar bu okyanusun Geç NeoproterozoyikKambriyen'deki kapanışı ve Gondvana kıtasının bütünleşmesi süreciyle uyum göstermektedir.
The international community donated nearly US$1 trillion during the last four decades to reconstruct post-conflict countries and prevent the outbreak of more civil war. Yet reconstruction has eluded ...many post-conflict countries, with 1.9 million people killed in reignited conflict. Where did the money go? This book documents that some leaders do bring about remarkable reconstruction of their countries using foreign aid, but many other post-conflict leaders fail to do so. Offering a global argument that is the first of its kind, this book explains that post-conflict leaders are more likely to invest aid in reconstruction when they are desperate for income and thus depend on aid that comes with reconstruction strings attached. Leaders are desperate for income when they lack access to rents from natural resources or to aid from donors with strategic interests in the country. Using data on civil wars that ended during the last four decades and evidence both from countries that succeeded and from countries that failed at post-conflict reconstruction, this book carefully examines the argument from different perspectives and finds support for it. The findings are important for theory and policy because they explain why only some leaders have the political will to meet donor goals in the wake of civil war. The findings also shed light on state-building processes and on the political economy of post-conflict countries. Paradoxically, donors are most likely to achieve reconstruction goals in countries where they have the least at stake.
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