3 | 2021
Varia
This Varia issue opens a new journey through the sources of our knowledge of Africa. It starts with the presentation of a unique aural source that highlights the complex relationship between local and global dynamics in Nigerian jihadism. An entirely bilingual paper (French and English) brushes a richly documented picture of a thirty-year-long research endeavour on the New Year festivities in Cape Town and their role in the construction of political identities. Other original contributions discuss the archeology of funeral sites in Sudan, anthropological approaches of migration and asylum in Uganda, the history of Afro-soviet networks through the Moscow archives related to Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, and the use of Antoine d’Abbadie’s travel notebooks for the history of Ethiopia and of the exploration trips in the Horn of Africa.
Last but not least, this issue hosts a conversation between three Rwandan historians about the historiography of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. This paper highlights the variety of sources that can be used and helps to re-contextualise the debates that surround the recently released “Rapport Duclert,” commissioned by the French Presidency to elucidate the role of France in the genocide. This last paper is part of a broader collaboration with the Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique. Throughout the coming year, both journals will publish various contributions to reflect on how to write the history of the genocideand what to do with the materials that have not been exploited so far.
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Les dernières paroles d’Abubakar Shekau : un témoignage sur la politique d’extraversion djihadisteAs últimas palavras de Abubakar Shekau: um testemunho na política de extroversão dos jihadistas
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A Tale of Two Taphonomies [Full text]Assessing the Contribution of Taphonomic Analysis to our Understanding of Neolithic Sudanese Burial Sites using both the Standard Anglophone and Francophone DefinitionsUne histoire de deux taphonomies. Évaluer l’apport de l’analyse taphonomique dans la compréhension des sites funéraires néolithiques soudanais en employant, à la fois, la définition standard anglophone et francophoneUma história de duas tafonomias: Avaliar a contribuição da análise tafonómica para a compreensão de sítios funerários neolíticos sudaneses empregando em simultâneo as definições standard anglófona e francófona
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‘I Told You, I Don't Have a Sister.’ The Effects of Autobiographical Writing on the Research Relationship, Kampala, Uganda‘Eu disse-te claramente, não tenho irmã.’ Os efeitos da escrita autobiográfica na relação de inquérito, Kampala, Uganda
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At the Heart of the African-Soviet Networks: Archives and Trajectory of the Senegalese Writer-Filmmaker Ousmane SembèneNo coração das redes africano-soviéticas: arquivos e trajectória do escritor-cineasta senegalês Ousmane Sembène
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To Note, to Classify, to Use: Antoine d’Abbadie’s Travel Diaries in EthiopiaAnotar, classificar, utilizar: os cadernos de viagem de Antoine d’Abbadie na Etiópia
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A Research Itinerary from Fieldwork to Archives: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Music, ‘Identities,’ Politics [Full text | translation | en]
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Entretien avec Paul Rutayisire, Charles Kabwete Mulinda et Philibert GakwenzireKwandika amateka ya jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu Rwanda hashingiwe ku bimenyetso ndangamateka byo mu gihugu [Full text | translation | rw]Ikiganiro Folorenti Piton yagiranye na Pahulo Rutayisire, Karoli Kabwete Mulinda na Filiberi Gakwenzire
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