Nehanda

Nehanda
Author: Mwale, Nelly
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2024-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 398989000X

Sankofa

Sankofa
Author: Amenyedzi, Seyram B.
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Total Pages: 417
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 386309963X

Queen of Sheba

Queen of Sheba
Author: Maseno, Loreen
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2024-03-18
Genre:
ISBN: 3863099761

Reconciliation After Violent Conflict

Reconciliation After Violent Conflict
Author: David Bloomfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

How does a newly democratized nation constructively address the past to move from a divided history to a shared future? How do people rebuild coexistence after violence? The International IDEA Handbook on Reconciliation after Violent Conflict presents a range of tools that can be, and have been, employed in the design and implementation of reconciliation processes. Most of them draw on the experience of people grappling with the problems of past violence and injustice. There is no "right answer" to the challenge of reconciliation, and so the Handbook prescribes no single approach. Instead, it presents the options and methods, with their strengths and weaknesses evaluated, so that practitioners and policy-makers can adopt or adapt them, as best suits each specific context. Also available in a French language version.

The Silence of Great Zimbabwe

The Silence of Great Zimbabwe
Author: Joost Fontein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315417200

This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. The controversy that surrounded the site in the early part of the 20th century, between colonial antiquarians and professional archaeologists, is well reported in the published literature. Based on long term ethnographic field work around Great Zimbabwe, as well as archival research in NMMZ, in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, and several months of research at the World Heritage Centre in Paris, this new book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between, and among individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority. To justify their claims, chiefs, spirit mediums and elders of each clan make appeals to different, but related, constructions of the past. Emphasising the disappearance of the 'Voice' that used to speak there, these narratives also describe the destruction, alienation and desecration of Great Zimbabwe that occurred, and continues, through the international and national, archaeological and heritage processes and practices by which Great Zimbabwe has become a national and world heritage site today.