12 research outputs found
Becoming American: The Socio-Economic and Cultural Landscape of Kenyan Immigrants in Chicago, IL
This study reports the emerging patterns of migration and settlement of Kenyans into the Chicago metropolitan area. Like most African immigrant communities in North America, economic downturn, political instability, and socio-economic polarization in African countries necessitated an appreciable quantum of emigration of Kenyans following the attainment of Africa\u27s political independence in the 1960s. Most of the findings on housing characteristics, education, employment, patterns of family life, socio-cultural interaction, challenges encountered by new immigrants, and related phenomena evince parallels with other studies on African immigrants in North America
A conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Sango of African archaeology
http://link.springer.com/journal/104372021-07-06hj2020Anthropology and Archaeolog
Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: FourthâFourteenth Centuries, by David W. Phillipson, 2009. New Haven (CT): Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14156-6 hardback ÂŁ40 & US$65; 288 pp., 224 b&w ills., 50 col. ills.
The Peoples of the Middle Niger. Roderick James McIntosh. 1998. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, England, xxviii + 346 pp., 15 plates, 6 figures, 20 maps, 1 table, bibliography, index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0631-173627.
The emergence of social and political complexity in the Shashi-Limpopo Valley of Southern Africa, AD 900â1300: ethnicity, class, and polity
Impacts on Afro-Asian âCoreâ and âPeripheralâ Polities, ca. 300 BCE to 1800 CE
Between 300 BCE and 1800 CE, Indian Ocean commerce was managed by traders who bridged exchange networks across the edges and peripheries of empires and interaction spheres through trader alliance networks (TAN). Using Network Theory, we hypothesize that TAN were characterized by high Triadic Closure and relatively little political influence between 300 BCEâ1400 CE, and shifted to Brokerage and high political influence after 1400 CE. These shifts and their impacts are tested through archaeological data from the Indian Ocean ports of Chaul, India, and Mtwapa, Kenya. These shifts enable understanding
the emergence and impact of trader lobbies, pressure groups, and âGreat Firmsâ as global power brokers, and the rise of Predatory Commerce after 1600 CE that continues to this date
When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the East African Coast
African Archaeology Without Frontiers: Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of âagesâ that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from the proceedings of the landmark 14th PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress, held in Johannesburg in 2014, nearly seven decades after the conference planned for 1951 was re-located to Algiers following the National Partyâs rise to power in South Africa. Contributions by keynote speakers Chapurukha Kusimba and Akin Ogundiran encourage African archaeologists to practise an archaeology that collaborates across many related fields of study to enrich our understanding of the past. The nine papers cover a broad geographical sweep by incorporating material on ongoing projects throughout the continent including South Africa, Botswana, Cameroon, Togo, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. Thematically, the papers included in the volume address issues of identity and interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development derived from a continent racked by social inequalities and crippling poverty. Edited by three leading archaeologists, the collection covers many aspects of African archaeology, and a range of periods from the earliest hominins to the historical period