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- Title
- Culture and resistance : festival programme
- Creator
- Mnyele, Thami, 1948-1985
- Date
- 1982
- Collection
- Africana Posters Collection
- Description
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Silkscreen poster shows logo for the Culture and Resistance symposium and festival. Ink is black and red. Subtitle is written in red marker next to the logo. The symposium program and a schedule of events are taped below title and subtitle. Ink on both is in black.
- Title
- Join us not them : end conscription
- Creator
- MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
- Date
- 1983/1985?
- Collection
- Africana Posters Collection
- Description
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Silkscreen poster shows a group of people on one side and soldiers on the other. Buildings and trees are in the background. Title on top and subtitle on bottom. All ink is black.
- Title
- Art toward social development : an exhibition of South African Art
- Creator
- MEDU Art Ensemble (Gaborone, Botswana)
- Date
- 1982
- Collection
- Africana Posters Collection
- Description
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Lithograph poster shows figure in beret and blindfolded on a tightrope. In his back pocket are a pencil and a paintbrush. Below him are images of a city divided by the tightrope. On the right side are large fenced in houses with pools, cars, and military tanks on the street. On the left are smaller, tightly packed houses with black figures in the streets. In the distance of both sides is a city scape. On the right are tall buildings, and on the left are buildings very close together with...
Show moreLithograph poster shows figure in beret and blindfolded on a tightrope. In his back pocket are a pencil and a paintbrush. Below him are images of a city divided by the tightrope. On the right side are large fenced in houses with pools, cars, and military tanks on the street. On the left are smaller, tightly packed houses with black figures in the streets. In the distance of both sides is a city scape. On the right are tall buildings, and on the left are buildings very close together with smoke stacks. Title and information on the exhibition are below image. Image text are bordered in burgundy.
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- Title
- Chiefs and rural local government in post-apartheid South Africa
- Creator
- Hendricks, Fred T.
- Date
- 1999-06
- Collection
- African Journal of Political Science
- Title
- South Africa - the rainbow nation and prospects for consolidating democracy
- Creator
- Habib, Adam
- Date
- 1997-12
- Collection
- African Journal of Political Science
- Description
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Since the 1994 elections ushered in the Government of National Unity (GNU) led by Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress there have been claims that a stable, multi-racial democratic society has finally triumphed in South Africa. This article refutes such thesis; it examines the prospects for consolidating democracy, and argues that the lack of significant progress regarding social (class and race) and economic (ownership) relations under the GNU is likely to precipitate a political...
Show moreSince the 1994 elections ushered in the Government of National Unity (GNU) led by Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress there have been claims that a stable, multi-racial democratic society has finally triumphed in South Africa. This article refutes such thesis; it examines the prospects for consolidating democracy, and argues that the lack of significant progress regarding social (class and race) and economic (ownership) relations under the GNU is likely to precipitate a political crisis. This could produce an authoritarian response and thereby severely compromise the democratic and socio-economic aspirations which inspired the anti-apartheid struggle.
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- Title
- Rethinking the leftist struggle in South Africa
- Creator
- Louw, P. Eric
- Date
- 1992
- Collection
- Critical Arts
- Title
- Press conference held on October 27, 1977
- Creator
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
- Date
- 1977-10-27
- Collection
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description
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President Carter announces sanctions against weapons sales to South Africa because of the deprivation of human rights; discusses his own energy and social security legislation programs.
- Title
- Retired scholar Robert D. Vassen talks about his upbringing in South Africa and his involvement in African National Congress
- Creator
- Vassen, Robert, 1937-
- Date
- 2005-01-07
- Collection
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description
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Robert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962,...
Show moreRobert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962, joined the illegal military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Forced into exile in London in 1964, Vassen says he continued to be an active member of the ANC and edited "Letters From Robben Island: a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989."
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- Title
- Popular expressions of Southern African nationalism(s : convergences, divergences, and reconciliations in South Africa and Zimbabwe
- Creator
- Mavima, Blessing Shingirirai
- Date
- 2019
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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Popular Expressions of Pan-Africanism and Southern African Nationalism(s): Convergences, Divergences, and Reconciliations in South Africa and Zimbabwe is a dissertation study that traces the transformations, reveals the tensions, and critically analyzes diverging and converging trajectories of different manifestations of African nationalism, including ethnic nationalism, state nationalism, and Pan-Africanism using contemporary South Africa and Zimbabwe as sites of analyses. Focusing on the...
Show morePopular Expressions of Pan-Africanism and Southern African Nationalism(s): Convergences, Divergences, and Reconciliations in South Africa and Zimbabwe is a dissertation study that traces the transformations, reveals the tensions, and critically analyzes diverging and converging trajectories of different manifestations of African nationalism, including ethnic nationalism, state nationalism, and Pan-Africanism using contemporary South Africa and Zimbabwe as sites of analyses. Focusing on the metropolitan provinces of Gauteng and Harare respectively, I use the study to interrogate how popular expressions of African nationalism have emerged and evolved in the neighboring nations during their anti-colonial/anti-apartheid struggles throughout the 20th century, and how they exist today. Presenting a thesis that I call nationalisms from below, the research study reveals how these manifestations of nationalism are imagined, practiced, and represented by the initiatives and actions of different members of the civil society including artists, activists, laborers, and migrants in the two countries' contemporary politics and society. My findings lead to a nuanced determination of the factors that influence the intersections, divergences, and convergences of what I refer to in the study as Africa's tripartite nationalist expressions and identities-ethnicism, African Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism. Critically, the study also aims to disrupt traditional elitist conceptualizations of these phenomena by employing a critical bottom-up approach that gives agency to oft-marginalized participants in the manifestation of nationalism in its various incarnations: the general populace along with its multiple identities and contradictions.The study interrogates the interrelations among ethnic nationalism, state and national nationalism, and Pan-Africanism, using South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies that both represent the larger postcolonial region, yet also bear distinct dynamics birthed out of the histories of settler colonialism and the late advent of majority rule. In so doing, I demonstrate the relevance and manifestations of nationalism and Pan-Africanism in the everyday lives of Black South Africans and Zimbabweans. While using the two countries as a window into the general condition of postcolonial Africa, the research also interrogates how their distinct history of settler colonialisms, racialism, and delayed transitions to democracy have shaped the ways in which the populace in the two countries engage with Pan-Africanism and African nationalism.
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- Title
- The causes and consequences of electoral administrative reform in Africa
- Creator
- Kerr, Nicholas N.
- Date
- 2013
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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In emerging democratic settings, scholars and policy experts regard electoral management bodies (EMBs) as one of the most important institutions in guaranteeing that political actors adhere to the rules of the electoral contest and that the substantive outcome of elections is not predetermined. Unfortunately, systematic and thorough assessment of EMBs has largely escaped the spotlight of democracy scholars.My dissertation probes two critical questions concerning the important, yet...
Show moreIn emerging democratic settings, scholars and policy experts regard electoral management bodies (EMBs) as one of the most important institutions in guaranteeing that political actors adhere to the rules of the electoral contest and that the substantive outcome of elections is not predetermined. Unfortunately, systematic and thorough assessment of EMBs has largely escaped the spotlight of democracy scholars.My dissertation probes two critical questions concerning the important, yet understudied role of electoral management bodies in emerging democracies. First, what factors influence the design of electoral administration in Africa? Second, what are the consequences of electoral administrative design and performance on the quality of elections in Africa?To answer the first question, I propose a theoretical framework, grounded in historical institutionalism, which attributes election administrative reform to the strategic interactions of domestic and international actors along with the path dependency of institutional legacies during different stages of democracy. Through a comparative analysis of election administrative reforms in a cross-section of African countries, I emphasize the complexity of the reform process and highlight various models of institutional reform. I argue, however, that incumbents are more likely to enact reforms that enhance the autonomy and capacity of electoral administration when they face credible and enduring pressure from a coalition of opposition parties, civil society groups and international actors.In subsequent chapters, I turn my attention to the consequences of electoral administrative design and performance. Primarily, I consider how EMB design and performance may shape the incentives and behaviors of political elite and regular citizens. Using cross-national data on election administrative design and performance in Africa from 1990 to 2008 and data on elites' and citizens' perspectives of election quality, I find EMB performance has the greatest impact on electoral attitudes and behavior. That is, EMBs that display higher levels of actual autonomy and capacity are more likely to enhance electoral integrity by reducing opportunities for electoral fraud, lowering the incidence of procedural irregularities and enhancing citizens' quality of participation in electoral processes. In the penultimate chapter of the dissertation, I rely on survey data from the 2007 and 2011 Nigerian elections to consider whether citizens' personal evaluations of electoral administrative autonomy and capacity are positively associated with their perceptions of election quality. The findings confirm my expectations, even after accounting for Nigerians' experience with electoral irregularities and their political preferences.I use a variety of methods in my dissertation. These include large-n statistical analysis of survey data and other data, as well as small-n comparative analysis of election management in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe using process tracing and content analysis. This multi-method approach also includes collecting original cross-national data on election administrative design in Africa, conducting elite interviews in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and observing elections in Ghana (2008) and Nigeria (2011).
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- Title
- Restoring human dignity and building self-reliance : youth, woman, and churches and Black consciousness community development, South Africa, 1969-1977
- Creator
- Hadfield, Leslie Anne
- Date
- 2010
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Power and gender in Southern African history : power relations in the era of Queen Labotsibeni Gwamile Mdluli of Swaziland, ca. 1875-1921
- Creator
- Genge, Manelisi
- Date
- 1999
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- John X. Merriman, the "poor white" and the problem of the "clean-living native" in the Cape of Good Hope, 1892-1910
- Creator
- Whyte, Anthony
- Date
- 1988
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations