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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Preben Kaarsholm Abstract This article gives a detailed account of the history of the Durban Zanzibari Amakhuwa community, which developed around the descendants of freed slaves brought to Natal by the Royal Navy as “liberated Africans” in the 1870s. It discusses some of the methodological...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 104–111.
Published: 01 November 2024
... understanding of slave trading in the Atlantic world still further by cataloging more than 37,580 voyages that transported some 737,465 enslaved Africans between colonial American ports from 1550 to 1887. The lives of approximately 250,000 “Liberated Africans” taken from ships captured by anti–slave trade...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 5–9.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the perspective of the so-called Zanzibaris of Durban, South Africa, and connects these important questions to calls for reparations. He begins with a close reading of the 1877 “Return of Liberated Africans” that is now located in the KwaZulu-Natal Archives in Pietermaritzburg, which covers a four-year period...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 68–79.
Published: 01 May 2024
... African context in Kabir, “Decolonising Time through Dance with Kwenda Lima.” 65 Chiziane, Niketche , 291 . 66 Chiziane, Niketche , 291 ; First Wife , 431 . 67 Hebden, “Swahili Covers, Sufi Prayers, and Liberation Hymns,” 84 . 68 Chiziane, First Wife , 351 . 69...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 November 2023
... disillusionment with African postcolonial regimes he characterized as dependent, dictatorial, and corrupt. He discerned little progress in these territories, other than “a minimum of readaptation, a few reforms at the top, a flag waving: and down there at the bottom an undivided mass, still living in the middle...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 46–59.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and one supposes readers, had in developing a politics that would deny them access to a global conversation on African liberation and revolution. While L’Épée 's coverage could never hope to account for the totality of the mid-century Afro-Mauritian experience, many of its articles spoke to the deeper...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 100–105.
Published: 01 May 2024
... transcends many categories. He is referred to as an African writer, a Black British writer, an Indian Ocean writer, an Afropolitan writer, a World Literature writer, and a postcolonial writer, among others. For example, Google refers to him as both a Tanzanian-British writer and a Tanzanian-born British...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 116–118.
Published: 01 November 2024
... between these distinct narratives reveals the repetitive nature of history. Searching for Libertalia also underlines liberation and anti-colonial movements in African post-colonies and their relation to contemporary questions of race and identity. Searching for Libertalia spans from video...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 75–91.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., but commence immediately to overthrow by force this most vicious colonialist government. I have no doubt that we shall win, and that the sufferings of the African shall come to an end. 2 Wielding machetes, automatic rifles, and handguns, the aroused segments of the population obeyed by attacking...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 92–106.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., was the product of intermarriage, claiming to be of Arab, African, and Indian heritage. This ethnically diverse makeup also translated in religious terms. Bambam emphasized that the MRC should not be viewed as a religious group that simply recruited from mosques and that Christian members were just as important...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 2–21.
Published: 01 May 2023
... connections and social station. George Grey departed Cape Town in 1861 to become governor of New Zealand, leaving behind his library of Africana. But on the principle that Malagasy was an “Oceanic language” Grey requested in 1870 that the Malagasy materials he had left to the South African Library...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 107–118.
Published: 01 May 2023
... But trade has been fertile ground for Ghosh before, and he is no stranger to the liberal idea that a free market is a guarantor of multiculturalism. Gaurav Desai claims that In an Antique Land exhibits an “uncanny disposition in favor of free-market economics and the market-oriented state” and is marked...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of recognizing water in all its atmospheric states as a connector between African and Asian landmasses; as a releaser of creolized ways of life that are repressed by nationalist, nativist, and casteist narratives; and as a generator of alegropolitics, or the politics of embodied joy, through which to resist...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 11–21.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of living for people of African and Malagasy descent. It was at this time that the movement and debate around reparations started. Though this movement was in a sense in a minority, huge institutional influences (e.g., official religion, plantocracy, etc.) were mobilized in the 1960s and 1970s to counter...