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na-gogana

East Africa Protectorate - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 2 views

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    East Africa protectorate was an area in the African great lake occupying many religion such as Christianity, Islam and traditional African religions. on page 14, Natives Christians were baptized to formally abjured to the Christianity religion.
ntandoelinda

The East African Ivory Trade in the Nineteenth Century on JSTOR - 2 views

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      East Africa is the foremost source of ivory in the world, with ivory over-topping all rivals in export value. Rhaphta, somewhere on the Tanganyika coast, was an important centre of the ivory trade for Arab merchants. These ivory carvings at Ujiji were exceptional, as there is no tradition of intricate ivory carving in East Africa. The ivory trader had to know their ivory, which varies from hard to soft. There was also a substantial ivory trade to the north by the Nile route, with merchants having their depots, zaribas, villages surrounded from which sorties were made into the surrounding. East Africa was the ultimate destination of thousands of tusks of ivory shipped every year, with a vast quantity going to England and the Latin countries. In the late I89os, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam were ivory auction sales, with 6,695 worth of ivory.
rammule

FZ0102596749 (1).pdf - 3 views

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      Those to whom he unbosemed himself on this subject could easly perceive that he actuated by a power of feeling, and a confidence of faith. in this way this prepeared him to peform any labour, to sustain any sacrifices in the prosecution of his design.
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      This gale primary source essentially talks about Mr mills who discovered watery grave in africa. the civil, moral, and spiritual degradation of the children of africa, both in land of civilization and christianity and their own natives regions of darkness was on in his mind all the time.
ntandoelinda

he_Human_Ecology_of_World_Systems_in_East_Africa_The_Impact_of_the_Ivory_Trade - 3 views

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      The ivory trade has been an important part of human history, as it provided currencies for exchange and a major contributor to the spread of specialized pastoralism. The amount of ivory extracted from East Africa was not known until the 19th century, but it was highly valued article imported to Egypt from Nubia more than 4000 years ago. After the fall of the Roman empire, there was a period of decline in trade which was reversed at the end of the first millennium when Arab and Persian ships began to trade on the coast. Recently, glass beads, cowrie shells and worked ivory from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were excavated in Bunyoro in eastern Uganda, indicating an early wide extension of the ivory trade. The caravan trade also stimulated slave trade in Namibia and Tanzania. The ruler of Usambara, Semboja, hired professional Kamba hunters to obtain ivory during the price boom in the 1880s. The impact of trade on environmental agriculture and cattle-keeping is discussed, as well as the contextual factors that influenced the relationship. The East African ivory trade has had a significant impact on human ecology in eastern Africa, both direct and indirect. The Kamba were the dominant ivory traders in the central part of the East African interior from the end of the 1700s, expanding their trading networks from Lake Turkana in the north to Kilimanjaro in the south. The Ulu men and women leaders of villages that supplied a large portion of porters and hunters were not directly involved in the ivory trade, but the Kitui traders spent considerable time maintaining social relationships with them. The natural patterns of ecological change that took place in the nineteenth century were the result of an unprecedented upsurge in ivory hunting and trade. The ivory trade is illustrative of the need to include trade in so-called prestige goods in examining the relationship between world-system processes and ecology.
mawandemvulana

WO 32/7757: Overseas: South Africa (Code 0(AU)): Zulu War: Dispatch from Lord Chelmsfor... - 2 views

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      This is a report sent to Lord Chelmsford by a Lieutenant during the Zulu war. The Lieutenant speaks on his troops and how they are still healthy and on the progress the British have made in taking over parts of Zululand, particularly North Zululand.
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      This report also speaks on how the British at the time did not know how the enemy, Cetshwayo's soldiers were advancing.
chantesolomonstatum

10.4324_9781315206714-1_chapterpdf.pdf - 3 views

  • Over the next four centuries millions of Europeans and three times as many Africans were shipped across that ocean from their ancestral continents. Recent historiography has sought to understand these human flows both more precisely and more interactively
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      Over the past four centuries millions of Europeans and three times as many African slaves were taken from their ancestral continents and were shipped across the oceans.
  • While the creation of the early modern European Atlantic long received most attention, there has been a burst of interest in the African Atlantic that dominated transatlantic migrations for nearly two centuries after the 1630’s.
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      The African Atlantic slave trade dominated due to the burst of interest in African slaves and the African Atlantic transatlantic migrations dominated for nearly two centuries.
  • The prevailing explanation has had recourse to predominantly economic motives and forces. The opening of the Atlantic invited the creation of a virtually unconstrained form of capitalism, whose beneficiaries purchased human chattels from Africa as their labor force. 3 This model of untrammeled economic behavior has recently elicited a further question. Was African slavery was really the optimal source of labor for the rapid development of the Americas?
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      The opening of the Atlantic trade invited the creation of a virtually unconstrained form of capitalism as the beneficiaries purchased human chattels from Africa as their labor force this created an economic boost for the beneficiaries who purchased African slaves for labor purposes.
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  • European freedom at home was thus the prerequisite for Europeandirected slavery abroad. They could take fullest advantage of the opportunity to combine newly available New World lands with a new and more intensive system of coerced labor. Unable to dominate or even penetrate beyond the coastal lands of tropical Africa, Europeans tapped into the existing system of African social relations to produce crops more cheaply in the Americas, and to deliver them more cheaply and massively to Europe, than ever before.
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      The European slave market or demand for slaves could not compete with Africa. The Europeans were unable to dominate or even penetrate beyond the coastal lands of tropical Africa they decided to tap into the existing system of African social relations where they would produce crops for cheaper prices.
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sinqobile

Primary Source.pdf - 0 views

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    This is a PDF manuscript from gale, the original manuscript is uploaded with the title " Correspondence relating to the proceedings of the Blantyre mission in East Africa"
na-gogana

Christian Missionaries In East Africa  - 5 views

  • Missionaries wanted to abolish slave trade and Slavery in East Africa because they considered it to be inhuman.
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      Christian missionaries viewed slavery as brutal and inhuman as Africans who were slaves were used as prostitution, war captives and military slavery.
  • promote Western Education in order to civilize the backward Africans.
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      Give Africans knowledge and teach them new skills.
  • Language barrier i.e. East Africa had many tribes and each had its own language therefore forcing missionaries to rely on interpreters.
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      Christian missionaries and Africans spoke different languages and missionaries had to rely on interpreters to communicate with Africans.
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  • The missionaries converted many people to Christianity and up to today the majority of the East Africans are Christians
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      Missionaries worked on teaching people the word of God, in order to influence Africans to become Christians.
  • Missionaries built several schools in Uganda to increase literacy
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      To educate the children and to provide basic education.
  • Churches were built wherever missionaries went and traditional shrines were destroyed
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      Churches were built in order the spread Christianity
  • Missionaries also created employment opportunities as many Africans who were trained as nurses, teachers, interpreters or translators and clergymen.
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      Africans were provided with skills that resulted to employment.
  • Missionaries also introduced new styles of dressing, dancing, eating, Marriage and burial which were all to be conducted religiously. 
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      Dressing styles were introduced to show how theist (People who believe in the existence of God) should wear.
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    This source is from the web.
Thandeka TSHABALALA

The African slave trade. on JSTOR - 2 views

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      These instances, however, were not representative of African societies as a whole, and it is important to understand the historical and cultural context of the time. Many African societies had their own forms of slavery, which were often based on debt or other forms of social status and did not involve the brutal exploitation and violence that characterized
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      It is also important to continue to study and understand the legacies of slavery and colonialism, both in Africa and in the Americas, in order to work towards a more just and equitable world.
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    Hi Tshabalala, This is a good source but shared incorrectly. It says "log in through your library". It appears you did not access the site through the UJ database with your UJ details.
na-gogana

Christian Missionaries and 'Heathen Natives': The Cultural Ethics of Early Pentecostal ... - 2 views

  • Pentecostal movemen
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      Pentecostal movement of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the holy spirit.
  • "Please pray for us and the people here, who are living and dying in Satan's kingdom. His reign here is no uncertain one, but a terrible, fearful, crushing rule, driving the people to wickedness and sin such as is not dreamt of in England. It is a force which can be felt everywhere, an awfUl living presence!" They went out, like many other Christian missionaries before them, with a fundamental conviction that the North Atlantic was a 'Christian' realm, that they were sent as 'light' to 'darkness' and that the ancient cultures and religions of the nations to which they were left: 972.643px; top: 380.379px; font-size: 17.7083px; font-family: serif; t
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      missionaries duties was to offer prayers, restock faith to the people were need help and people who are lost direction in their path and teach people that the word of God is light.
  • Evangelism meant to go out and reach the 'lost' for Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit
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  • 'called' people called 'missionaries'
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      The Pentecostal missionaries and Christian missionaries teach and peach the word of God to the 'lost' children of God.
  • 'mission' was understood as 'foreign mission' (mostly cross-cultural, from 'white' to 'other' peoples), and these missionaries were mostly untrained and inexperienced
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      The missionaries was seen the 'foreign mission' as the natives were cross-cultural people.
  • The power of God could save them from it all, if only they knew it."
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      A bible verse that God is the light and protector of us all and people just need to trust in him.
  • baptism in the Spirit and a divine call, their motivation was to evangelise the world before the imminent coming of Christ,
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      Baptism was a way used to help 'lost people' to be born again.
  • Another cultural insensitivity emanating fiom the early Pentecostal doctrine of Spirit baptism resulted in a failure to engage in serious language stu
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      The missionaries aim was to teach people how to pray in tongues. praying in tongues was spirit language of missionaries.
mondlinzuza

tailor and frances zulu wars.pdf - 5 views

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nicolendeleni

A Note on Firearms in the Zulu Kingdom with Special Reference to the Anglo-Zulu War, 18... - 1 views

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  • The diaries of the English traders who arrived in the kingdom in the latter part of the i820S point to a widespread fear of firearms on the part of Shaka's subjects-a fear not necessarily related to the missiles the guns discharged, but to the noise and smoke they emitted when fired
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      J.J GUY has written about the ZULU people's reaction towards the sound of gunfire and the smoke it emitted. Shaka's subject were frightened by these
  • Both Shaka and Dingane showed a keen interest in firearms, and visitors recorded a number of conversations they had with the Zulu kings on the relative merits of Zulu and European arms, and the tactics the Zulu should adopt against a force armed with guns
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      The Zulu kings had an interest in firearms
  • and the tactics the Zulu should adopt against a force armed with guns. Conventional Zulu tactics aimed at direct physical contact with the enemy, where the soldiers could use their basic weapon, the short stabbing spear, in conjunction with the hide shield. In battle every effort was made to enclose the enemy: as the Zulu approached their opponents, flanking movements-the 'horns'-were thrown out so that the enemy would be surrounded when the main body of troops -the 'chest'-charged. Th
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      Zulu tactics required physical contact which was very flexible during fighting
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  • nd, the Voortrekkers indulged in sham fights, charges, and massed firing at the gallop in an attempt to impress the Zulu with their strengt
    • nicolendeleni
       
      who were the voortrekkers and why were they called voortrkkers
  • In the four major expeditions mounted against the Zulu during I839, there is no evidence in the published sources that the Zulu either departed from their conventional tactics as a response to their enemies' use of firearms, or made use of firearms themselves
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      which four expeditions are they referring to ?
  • Zulu numerical superiorit
  • was not sufficient in itself to overcome heavy fire from a strongly defended position. It is
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      Although the Zulu kingdom had a large number of soldiers, they were weak against fire arms
  • It was in the late I 86os that really significant numbers of firearms began to come into Zululand.
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      Zululand started acquiring firearms
  • Ulundi,
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      Ulundi still exists to this day in ZULULAND
  • f Zululand in I879 noted that the Zulu 'method of marching,
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      these firearms were in reference with the war the Zulu kingdom was finding new ways to win the war
  • 'Prussian' rifles and Tower musket
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      these are types of guns
  • he battle of Ulundi was fought on 4 July when Chelmsford, his supply line dangerously extended, marched a huge square of 5,ooo men to open ground near Ulundi. The Zulu attacked but did not reach the square, and cavalry put the survivors to flight. After burning the royal homestead, Chelmsford hurriedly withdrew.
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      A WAR TOOK PLACE ON THE 4TH OF JULY
  • Throughout the war the Zulu made use of firearms, although their role was always subordinate to that of the stabbing spear. As the impi worked its way into a position to charge, long-range, generally inaccurate fire was aimed at the enemy. One of the few whites who witnessed the attack at Isandlwana and survived wrote:
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      Zululand had acquired the skills of using firearms
  • Obviously, the number and the quality of the weapons they possessed must have played a part in their ineffectual firing of, and lack of confidence in the weapon, but, even with the guns they had, the Zulu could have used them to greater advantage if they had not been subordinated to traditional tactics.
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      the Zululand did not have much faith in their weapons
  • annihilation
    • nicolendeleni
       
      what exactly does this mean does it mean the defeat?
  • 5 Morris writes that the Zulu soldiers who withdrew from Rorke's Drift were 'exhausted and starving to boot. On the move continually since leaving Ulundi six days earlier, they had consumed their reduced campaign rations during the first two da
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      Shaka's troops were starving
  • Cetshway
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      who was Cetshwayo
na-gogana

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND INDEPENDENT AFRICAN CHIEFDOMS IN SOUTH AFRICA IN THE 19TH CENTUR... - 1 views

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  • amongst the Bantu-speaking people in South Africa started at the beginning of th
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      Black people were known as the Bantu speaking during the nineteen century.
  • Their religious and moral teachings necessarily involved an attack on African customs, and so were perceived as subversive of the social order and of chief
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      The role of Christian missionaries was to teach the word of God to the Africans. Christianity was spread through royalty in African countries, in a way the royal families would have to practice Christianity so the followers can take their lead.
  • nce among them would bring. The teaching of the missionaries,
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      The teachings of the missionaries shows the control the chiefs had on their kingdoms.
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  • tion and Christianity. As the independent power of chiefs was repl
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      Natives believed in ancestors before the perceived the practice of Christianity.
  • Missionary enough for them'}1 Missionaries were also welcome as trading intermediaries, for their medical skill in some cases, and for the new techniques they brought, such as irrigat
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      Christian missionaries were teaching the word of God and teaching natives to read and write. The missionaries were also into trading their skills techniques
  • But t
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      The Christianity religion was not accepted at first, as Africans believed in ancestors as the intermediaries between human beings
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