with their meaning and value reconstituted in Yoruba cultural traditions. Although cowries had been used in pre-Atlantic Yorubaland, their use had been limited to ritual and religious purposes, while glass beads played
In working closely with him, I’ve come to know his infinite fascination with ideas that matter in bringing transformation in the material conditions of the poor and landless, forged by his humility in dialogues with communities. Shivji speaks of Gramsci’s ‘humility of a school teacher’ (Sh...
The Mapungubwe cultural landscape has been inundated with archaeological research since the early 1930s, with the discovery of the golden rhinoceros on Mapungubwe Hill [48,49]. These include one of the most extended systematic field walking surveys in the Mapungubwe landscape under the ‘Origins of...
In line with this, van Waarden [14] has also argued that before the fall of Mapungubwe, a Gumanye chiefdom was already on the rise at Great Zimbabwe. Further afield, around the Tati cluster of Botswana, numerous Zimbabwe tradition sites dating between the 10th and 11th centuries were ...