This general survey of the lives of women in pre-colonial East Africa draws upon recent innovative scholarship in multiple fields, especially that of historical linguistics. Based on the longue durée approach, this scholarship is giving us glimpses of how ecology, trade, war, violence and other ...
The Relevance of Gender in African HistoryOyeronke Owewumi, "Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism", in NupurChaudhuri, ed. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 121-156....
Mindanao, the second largest island, is in the south. The Philippines are 1,152 miles (1,854 kilometers) long from north to south. The width is 688 miles (1,107 kilometers). There are no land boundaries; the country is bordered on the west by the South China Sea, on the east by...
Though there is archaeological evidence that societies have been living in Nigeria for more than twenty-five hundred years, the borders of modern Nigeria were not created until the British consolidated their colonial power over the area in 1914. The name Nigeria was suggested by British journalist...
Well, let’s recall that the Dove’s parent company is Unilever, after all — headquartered in the Netherlands. The Dutch have a long history ofdenying the racism behind their colonial empire. So, perhaps, no. Meanwhile, along comesGeneral Mills. A new pair of ads follows in the footsteps...
walks of life whose votes brought us to victory. They defended me. They worked with me. They prayed for me. It is the women who labored and advocated for peace throughout our region.”—Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected woman president in post-colonial Africa (...
From an empirical standpoint, there is hardly anything new about the Marcos regime, anti-Marcos groups (both radical left and moderates), and the popular media in the Philippines to be found in these chapters. The book makes use of... D Havertystacke 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 The Missing Li...
Philippines Poland Portugal Republic of Korea Romania Saudi Arabia Senegal Slovakia Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda United Kingdom Uruguay Vignette2.1 Road to 2015: Pre-college Gender Parity and UNESCO’s Millennium Development Goals ...
in the former Yugoslavia. In Kosovo, the Albanian majority was reduced to the status of an oppressed colonial people after the Serb conquest of the region at the beginning of the twentieth century. The open conflict that broke out in 1997 was, however, not initially one between Kosovo ...
A number of informants felt depression was more common in Norway than in the Philippines due to lower levels of social support and greater social isolation: I think it’s more here, the depression. Because…mostly I notice in Norway you have a big house but you’re living alone. In the...