Browsing Department of History by Author "Israel, Paolo"
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Baswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in cape town, 1997-2017
Vuninga, Rosette Sifa (University of the Western Cape, 2022)My research is on regionalism among Congolese migrants of South Africa with the focus on the tensions between Baswahili (Kivu inhabitants) and Bato ya mangala (Kinshasa inhabitants) in the city of Cape Town. The two ... -
Portrait of a mobile political subject: The figure of the Afghan Mujahedeen in South Africa in the 1980s.
Moosa, Medina (University of Western Cape, 2019)This mini-thesis engages with the period of the Cold War between 1979 and 1989 to examine the shifts and contradictions that emerged around the figure of the “terrorist” and the “freedom fighter with a focus on the Afghan ... -
Secrets of slaves the rise and decline of Vinyago Masquerades in the Kenya coast (1907 to the present)
Tinga, Kaingu Kalume (UWC, 2012) -
Solidarity and the struggle for Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean African National Union (ZANU) in Mozambique (1975-1980) Clinarete
Munguambe, Clinarete Victoria Luis (University of the Western Cape, 2017)This dissertation examines the relationships of solidarity that developed between the Mozambican people and the Zimbabwean liberation movement ZANU, between 1975 and 1980, considering them in their multifarious aspects and ... -
Théâtres and mikilistes: Congolese films and Congolese diasporic identity in the post-Mobutu period (1998-2011)
Vuninga, Rosette Sifa (University of the Western Cape, 2012) -
Zimbabwean Reggae and Dancehall: A History of Generations (1981 to recent times)
Charivanda, Lazarus Charles (University of the Western Cape, 2019)The Zimdancehall phenomenon is a growing subculture in Zimbabwe’s entertainment industry and as such it is attracting scholarly attention, hence the literature around it is burgeoning. The aim of this research is to trace ...