Kategoria BISAC: History >> Africa - South - General

Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola. These reproductions were adapted in postindependence Angolan nationalist art and post-civil war contemporary art. As Delinda Collier recounts, the pictorial narrative foregrounds the complex relationships between content, distribution, and politicization. The result is a...

" i tiu libro ne estas nur libro. i vere estas minejo, minejo de informoj pri la sudafrika movado kaj pri unu el iaj efaj rolantoj, Axel von Blottnitz. Ne ser u rigoran ordon en minejo, kie faktoj amasi as en montoj, kiuj estas unu apud la alia. Kaj la montoj en i tiu verko estas multaj. En la fino de la pasinta jarcento nova fenomeno komencis doni novan sangon al la sudafrika Esperantujo. Al la ekonomie bonfarta lando komencis alveni enmigrintoj el aliaj afrikaj landoj kaj inter ili anka esperantistoj. i tiuj montris grandan entuziasmon kaj iugrade komencis pu i la tradician movadon....

The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had at their disposal. In the 1970s, �Mlilo,� a private conservancy sharing boundaries with Hwange National Park, became the first site in Zimbabwe to experiment with �wildlife production,� and by the 1990s, wildlife tourism had become one of the most lucrative...

The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had at their disposal. In the 1970s, �Mlilo,� a private conservancy sharing boundaries with Hwange National Park, became the first site in Zimbabwe to experiment with �wildlife production,� and by the 1990s, wildlife tourism had become one of the most lucrative...