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mokhele_l

Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thursday 8 July 1880, page 7 - 2 views

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      This newspaper article makes reference to the Belgium expedition in central Africa driven by curiosity.
lpmalapile

Untangling the Legacies of Slavery: Deconstructing Mission Christianity for our Contemp... - 4 views

  • The impact of Christianity on Black suffering
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      IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT EMPHASIZES THE IMPACT OF CHRISTIANITY ON SLAVERY AND BLACK SUFFERING.
  • When you combine problematic tropes around Blackness, with White exceptionalist forms of hermeneutics, linked to White European notions of manifest destiny, you have the ingredients for a toxic residue of epistemology that sees Black people as “the problem”. 17 This ethic of White mastery over those who are deemed “the Other” becomes the basis on which the roots of a colonially inspired capitalism is at play, in which Blackness becomes the demonised other that has to be conquered, subdued and economically exploited.
  • For many Diasporan Africans, the search for a positive self-esteem has been found from within the frameworks of the Christian faith. Faith in Christ has provided the conduit by which issues of identity and self-esteem have been explored. This search has been helpful at one level, as the frameworks provided by conversion and an alignment with God in Christ has confirmed a new spiritual identity on Black people, but the extent to which this new formulation of the self has affirmed the materiality of one’s Blackness is, however, open to doubt. 35
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  • This means that if you are a Christian slave owner, you have can faith in Christ and still own slaves, as God is only interested in your soul, which is preserved through faith in Jesus. Your actions on earth are another matter, however. For the enslaved Africans, faith in this same Jesus guaranteed salvation in heaven but not material freedom here on earth for the same reason as that given for the justification of the actions of slave masters.
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      ALSO IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SHOWS HOW CHRISTIANITY WAS USED TO KEEP BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE UNDERDEVELOPED. THE BIBLE WAS TEACHING THEM TO ALLOW ANY EXPLOITATION HAPPENING TO THEM BECAUSE THEY SHOULD SEEK SALVATION IN HEAVEN AND NOT ON EARTH THROUGH MATERIAL THINGS.
  • 6 The effects of such biased, self-serving instruction are still being felt - the continuing tendency of Black people to internalise their feelings of inferiority, coupled with an accompanying lack of self-esteem
  • When Caribbean migrants came to Britain in the post-Windrush era they brought with them this legacy of spiritual wisdom from Africa, via the Caribbean. Upon arrival in the UK and encountering the hardships of economic deprivation and systemic racism, 46 what enabled many of them to cope with their experiences of rejection was a direct sense of God being with them; this “God with them” was seen in the form of the spirit that offers alternative ways of interpreting one’s experience and dealing with the reality of marginalization and oppression. 47
okuhle

Imperial Strategy and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.pdf - 11 views

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  • y 1879, the British army suffered its worst colonial defeat of the nineteenth century when 1,500 men armed with the most modern weapons then available were wiped out at the battle of Isandlwana by a Zulu army—an impi—of 25,000 warriors armed
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      The British army wanted to expand its region to the Indian side which was controlled by Zulus. The British planned on overthrowing the Zulus and take control of the Indian ocean side. There was an outbreak of the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879, as Zulus did not want to willingly give up on their land without a fight. Zulus used Spears and Shields and won the battle against the British.
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      In this part, The Transvaal government which was under the Boers feared and invasion of the Pedi people, as they suspected the the Pedis had collaborated with the Zulus to overthrow them.
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  • Southern Africa during the nineteenth century against the opposition of indigenous peoples and the original Dutch settlers, the Boers, while at the same time repudiating any desire for an increase in territory or responsibility. What the British wanted was c
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      The British were plotting against the Boers, both colonizers wanted land in the same areas of Zulu-land. While Dutch wanted to increase their territory to the Indian side, the British also wanted to control the Indian route, this caused conflict.
mandisasithole

IVORY.pdf - 0 views

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thutomatlhoko

Notes on Hasty Defences as Practised in South Africa: Royal United Services Institution... - 2 views

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    During the year 1838 a Dutch commando under Pretoruis ordered an attack on Natal in order to avenge the massacre of Relief and his followers. The order on the attack was a ambush.
ayabonga

EISA Malawi: Invasions from all sides - the Swahili to the British (1800-1891) - 1 views

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    The political fragmentation of the Malawi chiefdoms in the course of the 18th century created a power vacuum that was exploited by new migrants who established new polities in the region. The first of these new comers were the Swahili who followed the trading routes across Lake Malawi pioneered by ivory hunter and traders such as the lowoka, whom they displaced as middle-men in the expanding ivory trade with the coast. New Swahili settlements emerged in the last quarter of the 19th century. A post was established in the Luangwa valley among the Senga in the late 1870s that engaged in trade in slaves and ivory with the expanding Bemba chiefdoms of north eastern Zambia. A Dutch Reformed Church Mission (DRCM) from the Cape Colony was founded in 1889 in central Malawi amongst the Ngoni and their Chewa subjects and over the next few years missions were planted by a plethora of Protestant denominations . Middlemen in the ivory trade between the Malawi and the Swahili settlements on the Indian Ocean coast in the 18th century, they settled in small groups in the highlands of southern Malawi from about the 1830s onwards amongst the Chewa, to whom they were culturally related, pushed by Lolo/Makua raids from the south
giftadelowotan

As the world shuns 'slavery', is Tanzania emancipated? | The Citizen - 6 views

  • In history, the transatlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1807
  • However, slavery still walks with shoulders high in its multiple faces.
  • Zanzibar slave markets
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  • there are still estimated 50 million people across the world in slavery today, forced to work for little or no pay, trafficked with deceptive promises of jobs, relationships, and greener pastures only to find themselves trapped in lions’ dens, forced to sell their bodies for sex, working as drugs transporter bags, having their body organs ‘stolen’ and sold, debt bondages, and many other debasing and inhuman activities.
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      Modern day slavery. This essentially means that only slave trade was abolished not slavery
  • Reflecting on the situation in Tanzania, both slavery aftermaths and modern slavery still haunt our society. Modern forms of slavery can be witnessed in factories, farms, small businesses and side hustles, due to inexistence of effective labour protection policies and regulations.
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      An example of how slavery still finds its way into today's world despite being "abolished" in relation to the Tanzanian society
  • There are also incidences whereby young girls have been transported from neighbouring countries like Malawi and Zambia for the same.
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      Mirrors how slaves where transported for labour back then.
  • The historical bigger picture of slavery is that of foreign nationals with guns in our country, but deep within our communities, slavery in its modern forms is rampant and has mature roots.
fezekantando

GUNS IN AFRICA - 1 views

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mawandemvulana

Non-combatants and war: Unexplored factors in the conquest of the Zulu kingdom - 1 views

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      This article is essentially about the effects of the Zulu War, focusing on the non-combatants, people who did not fight in the war. It also discusses how the war went from being a war about liberation and against the Zulu King to a war against the Zulu nation, including its people
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      The main point of the article is that the Zulu non-combatants were affected more by the war than the British for two reasons. Firstly the British non-combatants were far from the war and secondly, it did not affect their daily lives like the Zulu. The Zulu people had their daily lives affected as their livestock and crops were destroyed, affecting their economy
  • number of pitched battles, amongst them Isandlwana and Rorke' s drift.
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      These Two battles are well known battles from the Zulu War
siphamandlagiven

Tanzania's Ivory Stockpile.pdfIn July 1989, - 1 views

  • In July 1989, Kenya issued a call-to-action to alert the world to a poaching crisis. Then President Daniel arap Moi, together with then Executive Director of Kenya Wildlife Service Dr. Richard Leakey, burned 12 tons of ivory stock.
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      the Kenyan government then passed several laws to monitor and restrict ivory trade. ivory trade is still a major problem in kenya today even after 2 cenuries
  • In September of that year, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secured an agreement among its member states to ban all international trade in ivory.
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      2 countries from eastern africa are in the top 10 of the CITES where elephants are in danger
  • Unlike Kenya, Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world, has not agreed to burn its stockpile of ivory, arguing that the money from a sale
    • siphamandlagiven
       
      ivory trade is still a profitable form of trade .and countries like tanzania still rely on the money from the sales of ivory
aneziwemkhungo

zulu kingdom hut picture before 1890 - Bing images - 3 views

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    This is a picture that shows the structure of the Zulu huts which Zulu people in the Zulu kingdom used for shelter. These huts are made of dried grasses and woven reeds to cover the dwellings. In the end, this hut was a dome-shaped structure.
Thandeka TSHABALALA

Full article: The Indian Ocean in Transatlantic Slavery - 4 views

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