The White Tribe of Africa
Author: David Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983-10-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780520050662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1983-10-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780520050662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Frederick Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0199978484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African white tribe haunted him and seemed to substantiate the so-called Hamitic Hypothesis: the theory that the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, had populated Africa and other remote places, proving that the source and spread of human races around the world could be traced to and explained by a Biblical story. In The Lost White Tribe, Michael Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis. In addition to recounting Stanley's discovery, Robinson shows how it influenced encounters with the Ainu in Japan; Vilhjalmur Stefansson's tribe of blond Eskimos in the Arctic; and the white Indians of Panama. As Robinson shows, race theory stemming originally from the Bible only not only guided exploration but archeology, including Charles Mauch's discovery of the Grand Zimbabwe site in 1872, and literature, such as H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, whose publication launched an entire literary subgenre ded icated to white tribes in remote places. The Hamitic Hypothesis would shape the theories of Carl Jung and guide psychological and anthropological notions of the primitive. The Hypothesis also formed the foundation for the European colonial system, which was premised on assumptions about racial hierarchy, at whose top were the white races, the purest and oldest of them all. It was a small step from the Hypothesis to theories of Aryan superiority, which served as the basis of the race laws in Nazi Germany and had horrific and catastrophic consequences. Though racial thinking changed profoundly after World War Two, a version of Hamitic validation of the whiter tribes laid the groundwork for conflict within Africa itself after decolonization, including the Rwandan genocide. Based on painstaking archival research, The Lost White Tribe is a fascinating, immersive, and wide-ranging work of synthesis, revealing the roots of racial thinking and the legacies that continue to exert their influence to this day.
Author: Riccardo Orizio
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-01-11
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1446444406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became independent black nations, and the white colonials were forced, or chose, to return home. Some of these colonial descendants, however, had become outcasts in the poorest stratas of the society of which they were now a part. Ignored by both the former slaves and the modern privileged white immigrants, and unable to afford the long journey home, they still hold out today, hiding in remote valleys and hills, 'lost white tribes' living in poverty with the proud myth of their colonial ancestors. Forced to marry within the tribe to retain their fair-skinned 'purity' they are torn between the memory of past privileges and the present need to integrate into the surrounding society.The tribes investigated in this book share much besides the colour of their skin: all are decreasing in number, many are on the verge of extinction, fighting to survive in countries that alienate them because of the colour of their skin. Riccardo Orizio investigates: the Blancs Matignon of Guadeloupe; the Burghers of Sri Lanka; the Poles of Haiti; the Basters of Namibia; the Germans of Seaford Town, Jamaica; the Confederados of Brazil.
Author: Christine Stephanie Nicholls
Publisher: Timewell Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781857252064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kenya's forgotten history from its inception to independence in 1963.
Author: June Goodwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0684813653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When South Africa's present transitional government comes to an end, apartheid will be dead. But just as the demise of slavery did not solve America's race problems, so the abolition of apartheid will only begin South Africa's healing process. Heart of Whiteness examines the cataclysmic changes taking place among Afrikaners--the "white tribe" of South Africa.
Author: Rian Malan
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2012-03-11
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0802193900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitor’s Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malan’s sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; “a grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hope” (The Guardian).
Author: Dr. Diana Prince
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-05-30
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1524693987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book looks at several African tribes today and their respective cultures, which have evolved over centuries. It presents an intriguing look at the beliefs and practices that have shaped their world from earliest times. This book also addresses the challenges, both historical and current, which have had a serious impact on their lives. Genetic tests suggest that members of the San Tribe, also known as the Bushmen Tribe, are the closest living descendants of the first man on earth. Africas rich legacy was also the subject of research by anthropologists Mary and Louis Leakey. They believed that the skeletal remains they unearthed at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzanias Great Rift Valley in 1959 belonged to ancestors of the earliest human beings. There is a variety and richness in the tribal cultures of Africa. Rarely is a culture able to hold on to the cherished past while dealing with a chaotic modern world. The tribes in this book are motivated by their pure roots and a respect for the ancient ways that define them.
Author: Riccardo Orizio
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over three hundred years ago fhte first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. Theis epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became independent black nations, and the white colonials were forced, or chose, to return home. Some of these colonial descendants, however, had become outcasts in the poorest stratas of the society of which they were now a part. Ignored by both the former slaves and the modern privileged white immigrants, and unable to afford the long journey home, they still hold out today, hiding in remote valleys and hills, 'lost white tribes' living in poverty with the proud myth of their colonial ancestors. Forced to marry within the tribe to retain their fair-skinned purity, they are torn between the memory of past privileges and the present need to integrate into the surrounding society. The tribes investigated in this book share much besides the colour of their skin- all are decreasing in number, many are on the verge of extinction, fighting to survive in countries that alienate them because of the colour of their skin.
Author: Jean Baptiste Bacquart
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2002-09-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0500282315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work displays and defines the fruits of thousands of years of black African creative endeavour. All the objects included were made by Africans for their own use, spanning a period from the beginning of the first millennium to the early 20th century, before the commercial production of art aimed at the tourist trade.
Author: Richard West
Publisher: London : J. Cape
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Africa South of Sahara. White Africans - impressions about their living conditions, why they want to stay in africa, their relations with black Africans, and what they hope or fear about the future. Includes historical background and examination of the role of the armed forces, political leadership, political problems, the question of apartheid, etc., and refers particularly to kenya, tanzania, rhodesia, the Republic of South africa, Portuguese territories, the Congo and former French africa.