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Landarbeiter und Sozialdemokratie : nach dem Referat auf der Frauenkonferenz in Mannheim 1906
(1907)
Schulpolitische Aufsätze
(1919)
Über die bisherige Entwicklung und die weiteren Aufgaben der Reform unseres höheren Schulwesens
(1909)
For centuries the continent of Africa has been characterised by negative images such as poverty, disease and conflicts. Today, however, the People's Republic of China's growing presence in Africa, particularly with regards to China-Africa business relations, brings new vitality to the continent. This new movement is not a windfall but rather obtained through the hard work of both African and Chinese people at various levels. Narrating on daily experiences of Chinese merchants and their vivid interactions with people in Botswana, this book decodes the frustrating while rewarding process through which China-Africa relations have been maturing on the grass-roots level. This book not only presents insights and suggestions to both Botswana and Chinese policy makers interested in understanding their constituents' everyday interactions with each other, but also offers readers interested more broadly in contemporary Chinese experiences in Africa a fascinating glimpse into these cross-cultural encounters. This book is an original and pioneering study of issues that resonate in almost every African country which has responded to a growing Chinese presence. It argues that as the process of globalisation permeates the everyday lives of people, each individual is empowered to be an 'ambassador' in shaping international relations.
Sunrise Poison
(2018)
Oleander
(2009)
Der Weg zum Sozialismus
(1919)
Die Frauen und der Krieg
(1916)
Eine eindrucksvolle, übersichtlich strukturierte Einführung in die politische Geschichte und Aktualität des viertgrößten Landes des Subkontinents. Mit großer Sachkenntnis nähern sich die Autoren den historischen Wurzeln des kolumbianischen Dramas, der "Violencia", jener angeblich unerklärlichen, allgegenwärtigen Gewalt, die den Mord zur häufigsten Todesursache unter jungen Kolumbianern werden ließ. Dabei werden die engen Verflechtungen der staatlichen Eliten mit dem militärischen Repressionsapparat und ihre wirtschaftlichen Interessen aufgezeigt. Auch die internationalen Konzerne (allen voran die aus den USA, Großbritannien und Deutschland) sind mit im Spiel, wenn es um die billige Ausbeutung von Erdöl, Gold und der natürlichen Artenvielfalt kolumbianischer Regenwälder geht. Der Paramilitarismus wird ausführlich behandelt, ebenso die Guerillabewegungen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt in der Darstellung der Drogenökonomie. Abgerundet wird das Buch durch einige Interviews und eine Aktualisierung vom November 2000.
Der Text bietet eine Hilfestellung für technische und gestalterische Fragen der Videoarbeit, indem er filmtechnisches Grundwissen vermittelt und praktische Hinweise zur Arbeit mit der Videokamera und der Schnitttechnik gibt. Außerdem geht er speziell auf die schulische Videoarbeit ein und beschreibt ein Unterrichtsprojekt zur Herstellung eines Zeichentrickfilms.
This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for a land that they could call their own. Highly entertaining, the stories cross over from pre-colonial to post-colonial eras, with tales of fooling the colonial officers, winning battles and producing miracles. Although warriors and chiefs play a critical part in the stories so too do unlikely actors such as women, prophets, and common farmers. As one of the elders put it, 'Without history you are like wild animals' you need to know where you came from and who you are.' People with kinship connections to the ethnic groups represented here will delight in the references to places, people, kin groups and events. Residents of western Kenya will be able to trace some of their genealogies to North Mara and vice versa. Historians and anthropologists will find in this book a rich primary source for their own research. Those interested in cultural change will find this a fascinating case of Luo assimilation: events chronicled in this book are still underway and observable in communities today. Producing the text in both Swahili and English ensures that local people will have access to these histories for their own learning and on-going discussions about the past.
Lichens are the object of investigation within the framework of the BIOTA Southern Africa project, subproject S04 (http://www.biota-africa.org). This interdisciplinary research project, installed in 2000, focuses on the analysis of biodiversity and its changes along climatic and vegetation gradients (transects) in Namibia and in the Republic of South Africa. In the context of this project, studies on the diversity of lichens are carriedout. Special reference is given to the monitoring of lichens growing on soil, which form the so called biological soil crusts.Lichen diversity is assessed and analysed with respect to its spatial and temporal changes. These are related to various abioticand biotic factors such as climate, soil features and land use. The indicator value of certain terricolouslichen taxaand/or lichen groups (communities) is investigated for the study area, and it is intended to use itin a future long-term monitoring programme in the region. In this brochure, we whish to explain what lichens are, how do they live and where do they grow, and why they are so important as bioindicatorsin arid and semi-arid areas of the world. The activities of the S04 subproject along the BIOTA transect are described, as well as the methods used for monitoring environmental changes in Southern Africa using soil-inhabiting lichens.
Nachdem der erste große Krieg der Moderne Ende Juli 1914 seinen Anfang genommen hatte und innerhalb weniger Monate immer mehr Nationen in ein Kampfgeschehen von bis dahin unerreichtem Ausmaß eingetreten waren, ließ es sich – so wird in ausgewählten Puppenspielen der Zeit berichtet – alsbald auch ein altbekannter Spaßmacher und berühmtberüchtigter Spitzbub nicht nehmen, im weltumspannenden Kriegsgetümmel mitzumischen. Mit dem Kasper(l) unserer Tage, der wohl in vielen Menschen kraft seiner herzerwärmenden Kindlichkeit und seiner schalkhaften Harmlosigkeit Assoziationen an die eigene Kindheit hervorruft, hat der Lustigmacher des Ersten Weltkriegs wenig gemeinsam. Vorausgeschickt sei an dieser Stelle ein wesentlicher Aspekt: beim Kriegskasper(l) der Jahre 1914 bis 1918 handelt es sich nicht um eine für ein Kinderpublikum konzipierte Figur. In weiterer Folge differieren beispielsweise die Inhalte, die Figurenkonzeption oder die Darstellungsmittel in erheblicher, ja mitunter frappierender Weise von dem, was der unbedarfte Rezipient von heute sich vermutlich von einem Kasper(l)theater erwarten würde. Zum Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Forschungen wurde der Spaßmacher des Ersten Weltkriegs allerdings äußerst selten erklärt: Sowohl die Literatur-, die Theater- und die Sprachwissenschaften als auch die historisch-volkskundlichen Disziplinen schenkten diesem Randphänomen des Literatur- und Kulturbetriebs bisher spärlich Beachtung. [...] Programm und zugleich Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist eine Annäherung an das Phänomen des Kasper(l)s der Weltkriegszeit auf mehreren Ebenen unter Rückgriff auf ein interdisziplinäres Instrumentarium, wobei der philologische Zugang zu den Primärtexten durch die zusätzliche Einbeziehung sozialhistorischer wie auch soziologischer Theorien und Methoden maßgeblich bereichert werden kann. Diese fächerübergreifende Herangehensweise wurde gewählt, da die Kasper(l)stücke der Weltkriegsjahre 1914 bis 1918 eine Fülle von Anspielungen auf politische Ereignisse und soziale Zustände in sich bergen wie auch auf ihre sehr spezifische Weise die Gesellschaft bzw. die nationale Gemeinschaft der damaligen Zeit samt ihren Charakteristika, Anforderungen und Problemen widerspiegeln.
Lustige Geschichten
(1952)
Brauchen wir Kolonien?
(1919)
Anarchival practises : the Clanwilliam Arts Project as re-imagining custodianship of the past
(2023)
Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the 'anarchive', a conceptual constellation that positions the past in relation to the present, bringing into view strategies to facilitate remembering beyond the colonial archive.
Orisa Ibeji
(2014)
Ahmed Yerima's play celebrates the phenomenon of twins among the Yoruba people. Orisa Ibeji is also about man's fear of death and love of life; destiny and reincarnation; and the place of the gods in human affairs. Yerima employs simple and beautiful language, dynamic characters and deft skill to navigate the labyrinth that is Orisa Ibeji.
Twelve-year-old Bridget and her friends are excited when they get admitted into one of the most prestigious boarding secondary schools in Kumba, Cameroon. Passing exams is the least of their worries. But surviving the new academic and social culture with hormone driven adolescent boys and unscrupulous seniors remain a challenge. Can the ground rules for survival Bridget and her new girlfriends adopt protect them from the threats they face constantly from the seniors, teachers and the adults in the local community? Can they handle all the distractions in addition to the changes their pubescent bodies are undergoing?
Imitation Whiteman
(2009)
This intriguing novel chronicles one migrant worker's experiences on a colonial plantation in West Africa. Martin Tebi cannot wait to board a truck to the south where he hopes to become a pioneer at a newly established oil palm plantation. Once he arrives, he realizes that becoming a 'Big man' in a new environment would not be as easy as he had thought. Set in the South West Region of Cameroon near the Bakassi region, this captivating story told in an authentic voice that fuses Pidgin and Standard English would keep readers spellbound as they follow Martin through his many struggles to become the first African manager. The experiences of Martin Tebi would resonate with economically displaced people in any part of the world.
An analysis of natural resources in the Central African Republic has shown that the country has a strong national potential and a diversified ecosystem. However, the economy has drastically deteriorated over the years owing to mismanagement. As a result, people's welfare has become increasingly critical, reaching now the level of what can be called 'acute misery'. While studying issues of governance and the stabilisation of the economic system, this book pays a special attention to the analysis of the structural and contextual evolution of the economy of the Central African Republic. The study is a longitudinal assessment of the acts and undertakings spanning from the colonial times through 2003. A consideration of which tool to use to reach a particular economic goal requires, first and foremost, asking the question: 'If the goal is reached, are we capable of stabilizing the system?' This book is written as a guide for political decision making and a rational basis for economic policy making, through its analysis of the possible implications of instruments of target-oriented economic policy, the possible usage of rare resources, the costs of particular decisions, the sacrifice incurred by particular choices, etc. The major concern is about what the economist can bring in to prevent blind decision making: what rules can decision makers put in place to improve living conditions in the community.
The Fourth Masquerade
(2014)
As one of the most important Nigerian poets who continue to write the nation in verse, Yeibo, in this fifth collection of poems, has strategically fashioned a kind of poetry that does not only derive its idiom from the prosody and folk tradition of the Izon of Nigeria, it equally advances the poet's vision through form and structure. His recourse to folklore and reliance on oral materials in the image making process gives coherence and form to the poems. However, what distinguishes this collection from the previous ones is the question of the form through which he demonstrates an intense awareness of the Nigerian experience.
White Masks
(2019)
This collection of poetry both reflects and creates attitudes that we now regard as characteristic of our age - the crisis of nationhood and the burden of citizenship. Abi Yeibo's White Masks unambiguously exposes the dystopian nightmares of a nation and a people's willing detachment from humanity. While some poets of his generation are content with dreaming of an ideal world, in White Masks, Yeibo, through the resources of memory, experiments with the idea of a better world - Professor Ogaga Okuyade, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
There is a dearth of well researched books on important disciplines in law written by Cameroonians. This regrettable situation has invariably meant a reliance of substantive and practice books written mostly by Nigerian and English writers. While books written by these writers have been helpful, they have not always captured the peculiarities and judicial attitudes of the Cameroonian context. When approached from the perspective of practice in the Anglophone regions, not even Cameroonian writers of French orientation have done justice to this situation. This book contributes to filling this gap. It is a comprehensive review that combines an analysis of the principles and basic procedure of labour law in Cameroon. Yanou draws on solid academic research as well as a wide ranging experience in legal practice across Cameroon and Nigeria to present a coherent and practical elaboration of themes such as employment, dismissal, remedies for wrongful dismissal, compensation for industrial injuries, and trade unions. The book is also motivated by the desire for a repository for members of the Bar and Bench, judges, academics, students and human resources practitioners.
This book, the first of its kind on Anglophone Cameroon, brings significant local context into the practice of law particularly at a juncture when civil practice has been radically altered by Cameroon's ongoing effort at harmonization of both the substantive and procedural laws applicable in the courts. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics including: the commencement of civil actions, jurisdiction, simplified recovery procedures and measures of execution, provisional execution and stay of execution. It provides a detailed analysis of the relevant rules of court applicable in both the high court and court of appeal. One of its major strengths lies in its use of recent cases to demonstrate the way Cameroonian judges have dealt with local procedural laws, as well as how the differences between Cameroonian indigenous rules of practice and those imported particularly from Nigeria and England are reconciled.
Dispossession and Access to Land in South Africa. An African Perspective : An African Perspective
(2009)
This book deals with the conceptualization of access to land by the dispossessed in South Africa as a human right. Yanou examines the country's property model in the context of the post apartheid constitutional mandate to redress the skewed land distribution of the past. The book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the land restitution process as well as the question of the payment of just and equitable compensation for land expropriated for restitution. It also reviews the phenomenon of land invasion and quality of access to land enjoyed by the South African black woman under the present dispensation. Yanou argues that the courts have, on occasions, construed just and equitable compensation generously. This approach has failed to reflect the fact that what is being paid for is land dispossessed from the forebears of indigenous inhabitants. In a South Africa that lost most of its ancestral land during colonialism and apartheid, access to land for the dispossessed should not be equated with the protection of property acquired under apartheid. Getting it right would entail truth and reconciliation with the collective dispossession suffered by South African blacks.
From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is presented around two foci of decision-making: one is the Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa, issued by the British Colonial Office in 1923; another is the Achimota School established on the Gold Coast Colony (present-day Ghana) as a model school in 1927. Ideas brought from different sources were mingled and converged on the areas where the motivations of actors have coincided. The local and the global was linked through the chains of discourse, interacting with global economic, political and social concerns. The book also vividly describes how the ideals of colonial education were realized in Achimota School.
King of the Jungle
(2014)
In King of the Jungle, the bouts of ethno-religious violence in Jos are fused with the heartbreaking story of two brothers who go through life unaware of each other's existence. Carefully crafted with local colour which evokes memories of pre-2001 Jos, Bizuum Yadok's first novel weaves humour, urban realism, tragedy and redemption.
Running and Other Stories
(2013)
Turning her back on what is considered conventional, Makhosazana Xaba engages with her subject-matter on a revolutionary level in Running and Other Stories. She takes tradition - be that literary tradition, cultural tradition, gender tradition - and re-imagines it in a way that is liberating and innovative. Bracketed by Xaba's revisitings of Can Themba's influential short story, The Suit, the ten stories in this collection, while strongly independent, are in conversation with one another, resulting in a collection that can be devoured all at once or savoured slowly, story by story. By re-envisioning the ordinary and accepted, Xaba is creating a space in which women's voices are given a rebirth.
Auf dem Frankfurter Stadt-Archive befindet sich ein Fascikel, enthaltend 188 Akten und Urkunden aus der Zeit des Armagnakenkrieges - Schreiben meist aus dem obern Deutschland, angefüllt mit Leidensschilderungen und Hülferufen des unter dem Drucke des feindlichen Einfalls seufzenden Elsasses. Diesen Schreiben gegenüber stehen die des Rathes zu Frankfurt, der nach Möglichkeit, in patriotischem Eifer und im Vereine mit andern befreundeten Städten und Fürsten, das Seine beizutragen sucht, den Landsleuten zu helfen, zu gleicher Zeit aber die eigne Stadt und Bürgerschnft gegen etwaige feindliche Angriffe wehrhaft macht. Dazwischen sind eingestreut Correspondenzen der Gesandten Frankfurts auf dem Reichstage zu Nürnberg und Instructionen des Rathes für dieselben, soweit sie mit dem Armagnakenkriege in Berührung stehen. Auf die Wichtigkeit dieser Dokumente hat schon Janssen in der Frankfurter Reichscorrespondenz hingewiesen und besonders betont, wie sehr viel Neues über Bewaffnung, Kampfesart der Franzosen und Rüstung der einzelnen Städte gegen den Feind wir durch diese Unterhandlungen erführen. So schien es dem Herausgeber nicht ohne Werth zu sein, die wichtigeren Aktenstücke zu veröffentlichen, theils in der Form des Originals, theils in der von Regesten oder Auszügen. Von den vollständig mitgetheilten sind meines Wissens bisher nur zwei gedruckt, die andern sind hier zum ersten Male veröffentlicht. In den Regesten sind auch die bei Janssen erwähnten Stücke der Vollständigkeit wegen nochmals aufgenommen. Die Arbeit selbst soll weniger eine historische, als eine archivalische sein: ihr Zweck ist Mittheiluug unbekannter Schriften in philologischer Form genau nach dem Buchstaben des Originahls. Auf strenge Wiedergabe wurde der Hauptwerth gelegt. Die einleitende Darstellung der Verhältnisse, unter denen der Krieg ausbrach, somie die Schilderung der Ereignisse, die er in seinem Verlauf mit sich brachte, sollen demjenigen ein Leitfaden sein, dem die Geschichte jener Zeit unbekannt ist. Sie schliessen sich an die bekannten Quellen, wollen nichts Neues geben und können vom Historiker überschlagen werden. - Ueberhaupt soll diese ganze Mittheilung von Akten und Urkunden nur Bausteine zu grösseren Arbeiten Anderer liefern, Beiträge zum Material, worauf der Geschichtskundige, der Culturhistoriker oder Sprachforscher seine weiteren Untersuchungen basirt.
Bis vor noch nicht allzu langer Zeit war es sehr aufwändig, einen Film zu drehen, zu schneiden und zu publizieren. Das hat sich grundlegend geändert. Zentrale Idee des hier vorgestellten Projektes ist es, die neuen Möglichkeiten, die sich durch die Filmfunktionen gewöhnlicher digitaler Fotoapparate ergeben, im Unterricht und mit Jugendgruppen zu nutzen, weil sich so die Forderung nach aktiver Medienarbeit mit geringem Aufwand und großem Erfolg umsetzen lässt.
Eros
(1921)
Paiderastia - ich wähle das griechische Wort, weil es ein gleichbedeutendes und gleichwertiges im Deutschen nicht gibt, denn on der "Päderastie" ist die Paiderastia etwa so weit verschieden, wie das Gymnasion vom Gymnasium - heißt Liebe zu Knaben, auf Knaben gerichteter Eros. Das ist also wiederum nicht dasselbe wie das, was man heute gleichgeschlechtige Liebe nennt. Es handelt sich nicht um beliebiges erotisches Verfallensein eines Menschen männlichen Geschlechts an einen andern, sondern eben um die erotische Bindung eines Mannes an Knaben oder Jünglinge, und, das wollen wie gleich hinzufügen: um eine erotische Bindung wiederum dieser Knaben und Jünglinge an einen Mann. ...
Einführung in die Wirtschaftspolitik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zoll- und Handelspolitik
(1927)
Reichstag und Frauenrechte
(1924)
This is the fourth in a series of publications on Zambian languages and grammar. The intention of the series is to boost the meagre scholarship and availability of educational materials on Zambian languages, which became particularly urgent in 1996, following the decision of the Zambian government to revert to the policy of using local languages as media of instruction. Kaonde (or more correctly Kikaonde) is spoken in the part of the North-Western Province of Zambia to the east of the Kabompo River, in adjacent parts of Mumbwa and Kaoma Districts to the south, and in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the North.
Nach der von Sander (F. Sander: Einfache Bestimmung des Säuregrades im Harn mittels Aciditätsquotient. Zeitschrift für Urologie, 25, 1931.) angegebenen Methode sind Bestimmungen des Aciditätsquotienten des Harns ausgeführt worden, mit dem Ziele, die Veränderungen desselben festzustellen, 1. nach Aufnahme von Eierklar, 2. nach Aufnahme von Eidotter, 3. nach Aufnahme von Lecithin, 4. nach Aufnahme von Eiweiß und Lecithin. Die zu diesem Zwecke ausgeführten Versuche zeitigten folgende Ergebnisse: 1. Der bis zum Mittag verfolgte Verlauf der Harnaciditätsquotientenkurve bei normaler Kost zeigt dasselbe typische Verhalten wie die Normalkurven bei meinen Vorgängern, d. h. etwa 4 Stunden nach der Nahrungsaufnahme erreicht der A.-Qu. sein Minimum und steigt dann bis zur nächsten Mahlzeit wieder an. 2. Der Harnaciditätsquotient sinkt nach Zusatz von Eiweiß zum üblichen Frühstück schneller und tiefer ab. 3. Eine Zulage von Eidotter zum Frühstück führt zu größeren Harnaciditätsquotienten-Werten, als wir sie ohne die Beigabe finden. 4. Bei der Lecithinaufnahme, die etwa dem Gehalt dreier Eidotter an diesem Lipoid entspricht, wurden noch höhere Werte des A.-Qu. des Harnes festgestellt, als bei dem Genuß der ganzen Eidotter. 5. Aus diesen experimentell festgestellten Tatsachen wird abgeleitet, daß durch die Aufnahme von Lecithin der Salzsäureverlust des Blutes durch die Magensaftausscheidung bis zu einem gewissen Grade kompensiert wird durch Resorption der Phosphorsäure des Lecithins aus dem Magen in das Blut. Infolgedessen kommt es zu einer relativ geringen Veränderung des Säurebasengleichgewichtes des Blutes, die natürlich sich in einer nur geringen Änderung des Aciditätsquotienten widerspiegeln kann.
This thesis examines three made-for-television ‘Event Movies’ from the German production company teamWorx, made between 2006 and 2007 – Dresden (2006), Nicht alle waren Mörder (2006) and Die Flucht (2007) – within the context of contemporary debates of ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ or ‘coming to terms with the past’ in Germany. It will deal with specific debates in memory of the National Socialist past, namely representations of Germans as victims of the Second World War and memory of the Holocaust. Although in recent years the importance of teamWorx’s television films has begun to be acknowledged by scholars in both Germany and the UK, this thesis represents the first attempt to analyse these three Event Movies as a unit and to explore in-depth the teamWorx company and its attitudes to historical film. As such, two interviews will be relied on throughout this thesis, with chairman of the board Nico Hofmann and Die Flucht’s director Kai Wessel. In order to place the films within the context of contemporary debates on memory of the Nazi past in Germany, the thesis will undertake a filmic analysis of the Event Movies, supported by both the intentions of the filmmakers and critical responses in the contemporary press. Of primary importance for the thesis will be the twin concerns of the authenticity of teamWorx’s productions, as claimed by the filmmakers and the Event Movies’ borrowing of filmmaking devices from Hollywood genres, in particular the melodrama. Following this analysis it will be asked to what extent the Event Movies affect and reflect contemporary debates on the legacy of National Socialism and how these films contribute to the normalisation of the Nazi past in Germany.
This book is about home. With Malawi as its focus, it seeks to understand ideas about home as expressed through poetry written by Malawians in English. Although African Literatures are studied those of Malawi have not received agreeable attention. This book surveys poetry by five Malawian writers - Felix Mnthali, Frank Chipasula, Jack Mapanje, Lupenga Mphande, and Steve Chimombo. The discussion negotiates scribed experience of exile, engendered by Dr. Banda's regime, and shows that the selected poets effectively converse with a sense of home, reflecting on its transformations in their work. Interrogating the strict definitions of home, the argument highlights that far from home-less exiles in fact clarify the sense of what 'home' is. The manoeuvre is one of thinking towards an unboundaried 'home'. This book will be of value not only to readers interested in the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in worldwide literary phenomena, and ideas therein of home and exile.