Workers, football players, musicians, and painters: Remaking conventional narratives of Africa's colonial past

Radical History Review

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Giles Vernick, Tamara ^a  

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References (18)

1. See, for instance, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987);
2. From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Colonial Kenya, 1890-1925 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980), as well as his edited collections, which include Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993) and Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital, and the State in Urban Africa (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1983).
3. See, for example, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans, by Constance Farrington (New York: Grove, 1966 [1961]).
4. More recently Mahmoud Mamdani has argued that the political relations under colonial rule created a bifurcated division of power between elite citizens and ordinary subjects, and thus created contemporary conditions mediating against democratization in Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
5. There is a substantial literature on leisure in southern Africa. See, for instance, Charles van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 2 vols. (Harlow, Essex and New York: Longman, 1982) and Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rlwdesia (London: Pluto Press, 1976);
6. Patrick Harries, Work, Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa (Portsmouth, NH: Heine- mann, 1994);
7. Dunbar Moodie with Vivien Ndatshe, Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). One recent work exploring leisure activities in West Africa is Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong's Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana 1800 to Recent Times (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997).
8. See also William J. Baker and James A. Mangan, eds., Sports in Africa: Essays in Social History (New York: Africana Publishing House, 1987).
9. Earlier urban histories include Luise White, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990);
10. Randall Packard, White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989);
11. Belinda Bozzoli with Mmantho Nkotsoe, The Women of Phokeng: Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991).
12. Jan Vansina pioneered the use of oral traditions as historical evidence. See his De la tradition orale: essai de mélhode historique (Tervuren: 1961), published in English as Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology (Chicago: Aldine, 1965);
13. Oral Tradition as History (London: James Currey, 1985);
14. Living with Africa (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994). For revisions and critiques of Vansina's methods, see Joseph C. Miller, ed., The African Past Speaks: Essays in Oral Tradition and History (Folkestone: Dawson; Hamden, CT: Archon, 1980);
15. Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992);
16. David William Cohen, The Combing of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994);
17. Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, in press).
18. Steven Feierman, "Africa and the Dissolution of World History," in Africa and the Disciplines, eds., Robert Bates, Valentin Mudimbe and Jean O'Barr, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).