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| rozvi means: Society, State, and Identity in African History Bahru Zewde, 2008 The Fourth Congress of the Association of African historians was held in Addis Ababa in May 2007. These 21 papers are a key selection of the papers presented there, with an introduction by the distinguished historian Bahru Zewde. Given the contemporary salience and the historical depth of the issue of identity, the congress was devoted to that global phenomenon within Africa. The papers explore and analyse the issue of identity in its diverse temporal settings, from its pre-colonial roots to its cotemporary manifestations. The papers are divided into six parts: Pre-Colonial Identities; Colonialism and Identity; Conceptions of the Nation-State and Identity; Identity-Based Conflicts; Migration and Acculturation; and Memory, History and Identity. The authors are scholars from Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, and Vice-President of the Association of African Historians. He was formerly Chairperson of the Department of History and Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. Amongst his publication is A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855-1991. |
| rozvi means: Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe Tabona Shoko, 2016-04-22 Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga views of the causes of illness and disease, mechanisms of diagnosis at their disposal and the methods they use to restore health, Shoko discusses the views of a specific African Independent Church of the Apostolic tradition. The conclusion Shoko reaches about the central religious concerns of the Karanga people is derived from detailed field research consisting of interviews and participant observation. This book testifies that the centrality of health and well-being is not only confined to traditional religion but reflects its adaptive potential in new religious systems manifest in the phenomenon of Independent Churches. Rather than succumbing to the folly of static generalizations, Tabona Shoko offers important insights into a particular society upon which theories can be reassessed, adding new dimensions to modern features of the religious scene in Africa. |
| rozvi means: African Cultures, Memory and Space Munyaradzi Mawere, R. Mubaya, 2014-07-17 African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through careful examination of cultural elements such as memory, oral history and space, among others. While the book makes special reference to Zimbabwe, it profoundly and audaciously dissect and cut across different geographical and cultural spaces through its penetrating interrogation and scrutiny of different issues commonplace in many African contexts and even beyond. The book, written by scholars from different backgrounds and orientations, should appeal to scholars, researchers and students from various disciplines which include but not limited to Cultural Heritage Studies, Policy Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies and African Studies. |
| rozvi means: Gender and Land Reform Allison Goebel, 2005 Land reform in Zimbabwe has been dominated by mass occupations, government seizures of farms owned by whites, and redistribution that favours the elite and war veterans. Gender and Land Reform considers the interests of poor women who have been marginalized within the land reform process.--BOOK JACKET. |
| rozvi means: Nada Southern Rhodesia. Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1970 |
| rozvi means: The Moyo Chirandu Dynasty Aeneas S. Chigwedere, 2006 |
| rozvi means: Do 'Zimbabweans' Exist? Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2009 This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project, providing a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context of African nationalism in general. The book departs radically from the common 'praise-texts' in seriously engaging with the darker aspects of nationalism, including its failure to create the nation-as-people, and to install democracy and a culture of human rights. The author examines how the various people inhabiting the lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers entered history and how violence became a central aspect of the national project of organising Zimbabweans into a collectivity in pursuit of a political end. |
| rozvi means: Wandering a Gendered Wilderness Isabel Mukonyora, 2007 Original Scholarly Monograph |
| rozvi means: The Silence of Great Zimbabwe Joost Fontein, 2016-06-03 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. |
| rozvi means: People Making History Peter S. Garlake, Andre Proctor, 1985 Zimbabwean history is covered from a socialist perspective. Book 1 describes pre- colonial African history, enlivened by many drawings, photographs, original sources and maps which are integrated into the text. |
| rozvi means: Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage Pathisa Nyathi, 2005 Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. ...the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe. - Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards citation |
| rozvi means: The Roots of the Bantu Aeneas S. Chigwedere, 1998 |
| rozvi means: What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, 2017-06-16 Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. “Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable. The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of “fixing”; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production. Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer |
| rozvi means: Paul’s Ethics of Reconciliation in Dialogue with Ndebele and Shona Ethnic Cohesion Gusha, Ishanesu Sextus, 2022-09-21 The tension between the Ndebele and Shona people dates back to the pre-colonial era and this has been one of the major threats to Zimbabwe's peace. The book proposes Paul's ethics of reconciliation in the Corinthian correspondence as inspiration for social cohesion between the Ndebele and Shona tribes. The volume deploys Pauline key symbols (Christ, the Cross of Christ, Ambassador, New Creation, and Baptism) as epistemological lenses in promoting identity tags that go beyond ethnicity. For these symbols to be effective, the author proposes setting up of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), refraining from using ethnic offensive language, introduction of Ndebele and Shona languages in schools, substituting ethnic provincial names with neutral ones, substituting ethnic registration system of people with a neutral one, and the devolution of power.-- |
| rozvi means: The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87 Eliakim M. Sibanda, 2005 This book is an exploration of the political history of insurgency in SOuthern Rhodesia. During the early years of its struggle, ZAPU employed non-violent means to try and achieve its goal for majority rule and a non-racial society. Because of the belligerancy of the White settler regime, ZAPU added the armed resistance to its strategy and went on to build a formidable army. Problems escalated and alliances were built and dissolved until, tired of being hunted down and butchered, the ZAPU leadership decided to merge its party with the ruling party in December 1987. |
| rozvi means: The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia Editors of Kingfisher, 2004-09-09 What was it like to live in the city of Rome in 700 B.C.' Where was the Silk Road, China's trading route with the Western world? Why did the Native American tribes in North America lose their land at the end of the 1800s? Who fought the war on terror? These questions and many more are answered in this authoritative, up-to-the-minute reference guide. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia is full of information about the people, places, and events that have shaped our history. The book is organized both chronologically and then thematically within each time period in order to allow young readers quick and easy access to specific information, while giving them a firm idea of where they are in relation to historical time and how the past relates to life in the modern world. Lavish illustrations, contemporary photographs, and detailed maps accompany the clear, fact-filled text. Book jacket. |
| rozvi means: Ethnicity in Zimbabwe Enocent Msindo, 2012 A comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Transformations in Kalanga and Ndebele Societies, 1860-1990 is a comparative study of identity shifts in two large ethnic groups in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. The study begins in 1860, a year after the establishment of the Inyati mission station in the Ndebele Kingdom, and ends in the postcolonial period. Author Enocent Msindo asserts that-despite what many social historians have argued-the creation of ethnic identity in Matabeleland was not solely the result of colonial rule and the new colonial African elites, but that African ethnic consciousness existed prior to this time, formed and shaped by ordinary members of these ethnic groups. During this period, the interaction of the Kalanga and Ndebele fed the development of complex ethnic, regional, cultural, and subnationalist identities. By examining the complexities of identities in this region, Msindo uncovers hidden, alternative, and unofficial histories; contested claims to land and civic authority; the politics of language; the struggles of communities defined as underdogs; and the different ways by which the dominant Ndebele have dealt with their regional others, the Kalanga. The book ultimately demonstrates the ways in which debates around ethnicity and other identities in Zimbabwe-and in Matabeleland in particular-relate to wider issues in both rural and urban Zimbabwe pastand present. Enocent Msindo is Senior Lecturer in History at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. |
| rozvi means: Background and rise of the major movement M. L. Daneel, 2018-12-03 No detailed description available for Background and rise of the major movement. |
| rozvi means: A Crisis of Governance Jacob Wilson Chikuhwa, 2004 An internationally-trained African economic analyst studies this former British colony''s struggle to become a viable independent state. Problems range from the need for constitutional reform to political patronage and a de facto oneparty democracy and th |
| rozvi means: A Zimbabwean Past D. N. Beach, 1994 |
| rozvi means: The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies James Cox, 2014-09-19 Indigenous societies around the world have been historically disparaged by European explorers, colonial officials and Christian missionaries. Nowhere was this more evident than in early descriptions of indigenous religions as savage, primitive, superstitious and fetishistic. Liberal intellectuals, both indigenous and colonial, reacted to this by claiming that, before indigenous peoples ever encountered Europeans, they all believed in a Supreme Being. The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies argues that, by alleging that God can be located at the core of pre-Christian cultures, this claim effectively invents a tradition which only makes sense theologically if God has never left himself without a witness. Examining a range of indigenous religions from North America, Africa and Australasia - the Shona of Zimbabwe, the Rainbow Spirit Theology in Australia, the Yupiit of Alaska, and the Māori of New Zealand – the book argues that the interests of indigenous societies are best served by carefully describing their religious beliefs and practices using historical and phenomenological methods – just as would be done in the study of any world religion. |
| rozvi means: Zambezia , 1979 |
| rozvi means: Meddelanden Göteborgs universitet. Historiska Institutionen, 1978 |
| rozvi means: Introduction to Shona Culture Solomon M. Mutswairo, 1996 |
| rozvi means: A History of Zimbabwe for Primary Schools J. Mutero Chirenje, 1982 |
| rozvi means: An African Area in Change, Belingwe, 1894-1946 Per Zachrisson, 1978 |
| rozvi means: Eastern African Studies , 1973 |
| rozvi means: Rhodesian Prehistory , 1969 |
| rozvi means: Rock Paintings from Zimbabwe Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frobenius-Institut, 1983 |
| rozvi means: The Month , 1961 A general interest periodical with an emphasis on religious (esp. from a Roman Catholic perspective) matters. |
| rozvi means: Zimbabwe Jacob W. Chikuhwa, 1998 |
| rozvi means: Rhodesian History , 1977 |
| rozvi means: A Dictionary of World History Thomas Edmund Farnsworth Wright, Edmund Wright, 2015 As well as over 4000 clear and concise entries, this dictionary also contains biographies of key figures in world history. Other useful features include, subject entries on religious and political movements, maps, and full international coverage. |
| rozvi means: To the Banks of the Zambezi Thomas Victor Bulpin, 1965 |
| rozvi means: The Dutch Century Carl Douglass, 2022-08-01 The Great White Hunter—Southern Africa is the third and final book of the Dutch Century Trilogy. It covers the last two-thirds of the 1600s, during which the Dutch exercised considerable control of all sub-Saharan Africa. Among the Dutch who spent significant portions of their lives in the region were farmers, traders, builders, mariners, and slavers. And, most interesting, some intrepid long-distance hunters. They sought fortunes as rewards for museum-quality mounted specimens, success beyond their wildest imaginations from the elephant tusk/ivory trade, and adventure—always adventure. They were brave and hardy souls who faced hardships of miserable travel in oxwaggons, difficult to manage native helpers, balky oxen, mules, and horses. In addition, there were problems of tribalism, close calls from fearsome beasts, including lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, crocs, and dangerous men. Piet van Brakel explored the lower half of the African continent while still a fugitive from the dangerous Dutch VOC. To succeed, he had to control the vicissitudes of weather—floods, droughts, winds, starvation, and great thirsts. He was the baas, the bwana who had to deal with all unseen and unknown surprises. That included: animal attacks, Arab slaver/killer invasion, war with ruthless Zulu impis, poisons, malfunctioning guns, and misbehaving men of his safari team. He lost six of his nine lives, accumulated hard-won treasure twice, and gained incomparable friends and success beyond measure. Such a life was never a sure thing for the man. How he accomplished, that is the stuff of legend. |
| rozvi means: Africans John Iliffe, 2007-08-13 In a vast and all-embracing study of Africa, from the origins of mankind to the AIDS epidemic, John Iliffe refocuses its history on the peopling of an environmentally hostile continent. Africans have been pioneers struggling against disease and nature, and their social, economic and political institutions have been designed to ensure their survival. In the context of medical progress and other twentieth-century innovations, however, the same institutions have bred the most rapid population growth the world has ever seen. Africans: The History of a Continent is thus a single story binding living Africans to their earliest human ancestors. |
| rozvi means: The New Makers of Modern Strategy Hal Brands, 2023-05-02 First published by Princeton in 1943, the collection of essays that constituted Makers of Modern Strategy has largely held the field as the key book that studied the means and ends of military power and thought, and the historical figures that shaped that history. The books, in two editions, have long been a staple of Princeton's backlist in international politics and strategic studies. The first edition, edited by Edward Mead Earle and subtitled Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, emerged out of a seminar of foreign policy and security experts organized between Princeton and the Institute of Advanced Study in reaction to World War II as a global conflict. The subsequent edition, edited by Peter Paret, then at Stanford University, was prepared in the early 1980s and subtitled From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. In that edition, three essays were reprinted from the earlier book, four others were revised, and the remainder-twenty-two essays-were wholly new, to reflect the updates in the field and also how the global political context had changed. The two books together are regarded as the founding and leading text in military and strategic studies, containing influential essays by many of the best-known scholars of the subject. The ambition of the new volume is to commission an entirely new edition of this classic reference work, with 37 chapters organized into 5 sections covering key military leaders and the most important elements of strategic thinking since Thucydides and Sun Tzu. The field of strategic and military history has witnessed an intellectual renaissance in recent decades, as the number of strategic challenges faced by the world has grown enormously. International politics has also changed. The Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. The United States entered a period of unipolarity, only to see it challenged by the rise of new powers, China in particular. Terrorism, civil wars, so-called rogue states, insurgency and counter-insurgency, and cybersecurity all joined a growing list of strategic concerns. New technologies promise to upend our understanding of conflict. Furthermore, scholars have learned more about earlier periods, from the classic thinkers of strategy to the struggles of great power war to the dynamics of world politics during the Cold War. Finally, scholarship on international politics, war, and peace in the 20th century and after has become increasingly internationalized, with the opening of new archives and the incorporation of new perspectives. The aim of this volume is to serve as an overview and stimulant to research in this field, one that encompasses the broader definitions of strategy in current research, reflects the current state of world politics, and also takes a more global and less Western perspective--Publisher's description. |
| rozvi means: A New History of Southern Africa Neil Parsons, 1983 |
| rozvi means: Present and Past Anders Lindahl, Edward Matenga, 1995 |
| rozvi means: The African Experience Roland Oliver, 2018-03-05 This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, the second edition of The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching and research, Professor Oliver arranges the book thematically, beginning with the human colonization of the different regions of Africa, the origins of food production, and the formation of African languages.The achievements of Ancient Egypt are placed in context with the developments in the rest of the continent, and the spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - peoples of the book. The tradition of urban settlement is traced, especially in western Africa, as well as the emergence of large and complex societies formed by the interaction of pastoralists and cultivators in eastern and southern Africa.The extent and nature of slavery in Africa is fully discussed, together with the external slave trade and the caravan trade in precolonial times. This leads to an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of African political systems and why, from the early nineteenth century onwards, these systems were unable to withstand political pressure from abroad and the ensuing colonization. The colonial partition of Africa saw the rapid amalgamation of small units, through which considerable modernization was achieved at the expense of the indigenous structures and through the exploitation of the African peoples. Later chapters describe the birth of modern African nation-states, at a time of widespread belief in state planning - now being questioned as the political elites of black Africa begin to review their single-party systems. This new edition sees a number of revisions, including a new chapter on the 1990s, when the end of the Cold War left Africa free at last to try to solve its own problems. |
Rozvi Empire - Wikipedia
The Rozvi Empire (1490–?, 17th century–1866) was a Shona state established on the Zimbabwean Plateau. The term "Rozvi" refers to their legacy as a warrior nation, taken from …
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830) - African History Extra
May 14, 2023 · The Rozvi era in southern Africa is one of the least understood periods in the region's history. In its 150 year long history, the Rozvi state was a major regional power, its …
Changamire I: Warrior King who founded Rozvi Empire …
The Rozvi Empire (1684–1866) was a Shona state established on the Zimbabwean Plateau by Changamire Dombo. The term “Rozvi” comes from the Shona word “kurozva,” which means …
Rozwi | Empire, Map, Africa, & History | Britannica
Rozwi, former Karanga empire in southern Africa. The empire was probably established by Changamire Dombo I (1684–95), who conquered some of the most fertile and mineral-rich …
The Rise and Reign of the Rozvi Empire in Southern Africa
Apr 18, 2024 · Over the course of 150 years, the Rozvi state wielded considerable regional power, leaving an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of modern Zimbabwe through its …
Changamire Dombo: Rise Of The Rozvi Empire - AfrikaIsWoke.com
Aug 1, 2024 · Changamire Dombo is most notably remembered for his efforts in consolidating and fortifying the Rozvi Empire during a period of increasing external pressures. He was a military …
About Rozvi Empire - Pindula, Local Knowledge
The Rozvi Empire, also known as the Rozvi State, was a kingdom established by Changamire Dombo and that existed from about 1684 to 1834. It was the greatest state in Zimbabwe from …
AFRICA | 101 Last Tribes - Rozwi people
The Rozvi (Rozwis, Barozwis, Varozvis, Varozwi) are a Shona people whose origins are quite obscure. People claiming to be Rozvis are spread through Zimbabwe, and identification as a …
The Rozvi State - ZIMSAKE
The Rozvi leaders understood the weaknesses and divisions of the Portuguese and expoilited them by making policies that made them dependent on the Rozvi for example forcing them to …
Rozvi empire - Oxford Reference
Jun 30, 2025 · An empire in East Africa named from a Karanga clan of the Shona, who established the authority of the Mwene Mutapa in the 15th century. Probably originally spiritual …
Rozvi Empire - Wikipedia
The Rozvi Empire (1490–?, 17th century–1866) was a Shona state established on the Zimbabwean Plateau. The term "Rozvi" refers to their legacy as a warrior nation, taken from …
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830) - African History Extra
May 14, 2023 · The Rozvi era in southern Africa is one of the least understood periods in the region's history. In its 150 year long history, the Rozvi state was a major regional power, its …
Changamire I: Warrior King who founded Rozvi Empire …
The Rozvi Empire (1684–1866) was a Shona state established on the Zimbabwean Plateau by Changamire Dombo. The term “Rozvi” comes from the Shona word “kurozva,” which means …
Rozwi | Empire, Map, Africa, & History | Britannica
Rozwi, former Karanga empire in southern Africa. The empire was probably established by Changamire Dombo I (1684–95), who conquered some of the most fertile and mineral-rich …
The Rise and Reign of the Rozvi Empire in Southern Africa
Apr 18, 2024 · Over the course of 150 years, the Rozvi state wielded considerable regional power, leaving an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of modern Zimbabwe through its …
Changamire Dombo: Rise Of The Rozvi Empire - AfrikaIsWoke.com
Aug 1, 2024 · Changamire Dombo is most notably remembered for his efforts in consolidating and fortifying the Rozvi Empire during a period of increasing external pressures. He was a military …
About Rozvi Empire - Pindula, Local Knowledge
The Rozvi Empire, also known as the Rozvi State, was a kingdom established by Changamire Dombo and that existed from about 1684 to 1834. It was the greatest state in Zimbabwe from …
AFRICA | 101 Last Tribes - Rozwi people
The Rozvi (Rozwis, Barozwis, Varozvis, Varozwi) are a Shona people whose origins are quite obscure. People claiming to be Rozvis are spread through Zimbabwe, and identification as a …
The Rozvi State - ZIMSAKE
The Rozvi leaders understood the weaknesses and divisions of the Portuguese and expoilited them by making policies that made them dependent on the Rozvi for example forcing them to …
Rozvi empire - Oxford Reference
Jun 30, 2025 · An empire in East Africa named from a Karanga clan of the Shona, who established the authority of the Mwene Mutapa in the 15th century. Probably originally spiritual …
