Index by author
November 16, 2016; Volume 44,Issue 1
Labor and Mobility in African History
De Luna, KATHRYN M.
- You have accessRestricted accessTracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African HistoryKATHRYN M. DE LUNAAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 235-257; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.235KATHRYN M. DE LUNAKathryn de Luna () is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University. She studies the histories of eastern, central, and southern Africa focusing on the tenth century BCE through the nineteenth century CE and is interested in alternative historical sources. Her first book, Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa, was published in the Agrarian Studies series by Yale University Press in 2016. She is currently working on a project that tracks ideas about and practices of mobility in south central Africa before the fifteenth century.
Dougnon, ISAIE
- You have accessRestricted accessReinterpreting Labor Migration as Initiation Rite“Ghana Boys” and European Clothing in Dogon Country (Mali), 1920–1960ISAIE DOUGNONAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 73-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.73ISAIE DOUGNONIsaie Dougnon is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bamako, Mali. From 1998 to 2003, Professor Dougnon conducted research on migration and labour from Dogon Country Mali to the Office du Niger and to Ghana. His book ‘Travail de Blanc’ ‘Travail de Noir’: la migration des paysans dogons vers l’Office du Niger et au Ghana 1910–1980 was published in 2007 by Karthala. He has published numerous articles and held Humboldt and Fulbright fellowships. He is completing a second book manuscript, tentatively titled Lifecycle, Rites and Career in Modern Work.
Guthrie, ZACHARY KAGAN
- You have accessRestricted accessIntroductionHistories of Mobility, Histories of Labor, Histories of AfricaZACHARY KAGAN GUTHRIEAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 1-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.1ZACHARY KAGAN GUTHRIEZachary Kagan Guthrie () is an assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He earned his PhD in history from Princeton University in 2014 for a dissertation on the history of labor and mobility in Manica and Sofala, in central Mozambique, between 1940 and 1965. He has published two articles in the Journal of Southern African Studies and is the author of a forthcoming article in the International Journal of African Historical Studies. He is currently beginning a new book-length research project, on labor, social relations, and industrial development in Mozambique during the final phase of Portuguese colonial rule in the 1960s and 1970s.
Hart, JENNIFER
- You have accessRestricted access“Nifa Nifa”Technopolitics, Mobile Workers, and the Ambivalence of Decline in Acheampong’s GhanaJENNIFER HARTAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 181-201; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.181JENNIFER HARTJennifer Hart () is a professor of African history at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is the author of articles in the International Journal of African Historical Studies and the International Review of Social History. Her book, Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation, was published by Indiana University Press in October 2016. She also writes a blog () and tweets at @detroittoaccra and @accramobile.
Hernandez, HÉCTOR GUERRA
- You have accessRestricted accessMigration and Forced Labor in the Social Imaginary of Southern Mozambique, 1920–1964HÉCTOR GUERRA HERNANDEZAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 130-151; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.130HÉCTOR GUERRA HERNANDEZHector Guerra Hernandez () has been a Professor of African History at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) since August 2012. He earned his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2011 from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), after earning a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary History and Sociology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin in Germany in 2005. He has experience in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology and History, and conducts research into postcolonialism, postsocialism, ideology and culture, international migration and social conflicts. He spent many years conducting research into Latin American migration and social conflict in European contexts, before taking up his current research projects into the history and politics of southern Africa, with a particular focus on Mozambique.
Keese, ALEXANDER
- You have accessRestricted accessHunting “Wrongdoers” and “Vagrants”The Long-Term Perspective of Flight, Evasion, and Persecution in Colonial and Postcolonial Congo-Brazzaville, 1920–1980ALEXANDER KEESEAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 152-180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.152ALEXANDER KEESEAlexander Keese () is Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Research Professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is the author of Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930–61 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007) and (with Philip Havik and Maciel Santos) of Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa (1900–1945) (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). He is also the author of numerous articles on African colonial history. His most recent monograph is Ethnicity and the colonial state: finding & representing group identifications in coastal West African and global perspective (1850–1960) (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
Martino, ENRIQUE
- You have accessRestricted accessPanyaEconomies of Deception and the Discontinuities of Indentured Labour Recruitment and the Slave Trade, Nigeria and Fernando Pó, 1890s–1940sENRIQUE MARTINOAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 91-129; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.91ENRIQUE MARTINOEnrique Martino () received his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2016. His published articles include “Dash-Peonage: The Contradictions of Debt Bondage on the Colonial Plantations of Fernando Pó,” in Africa; “Clandestine Recruitment Networks in the Bight of Biafra,” in International Review of Social History; and “Open Sourcing the Colonial Archive,” in History in Africa.
Mudeka, IREEN
- You have accessRestricted accessGendered Exclusion and ContestationMalawian Women’s Migration and Work in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930s to 1963IREEN MUDEKAAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 18-43; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.18IREEN MUDEKADr. Ireen Mudeka () is currently a lecturer at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. She earned a BA Honors Degree in Economic History and a Masters Degree in African Economic History at the University of Zimbabwe. After 2000, she obtained a Compton and MacArthur Foundation scholarship to pursue a PhD in African History at the University of Minnesota, where she earned a PhD in 2011 for a thesis on Malawian women’s migration. She has also conducted research into the role of women in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle and the failure of Zimbabweans to mentally demobilize after the liberation war.
Ocobock, PAUL
- You have accessRestricted accessEarning an AgeMigration and Maturity in Colonial Kenya, 1895–1952PAUL OCOBOCKAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 44-72; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.44PAUL OCOBOCKPaul Ocobock () is an assistant professor of African History at the University of Notre Dame. His forthcoming book, An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya, published with Ohio University Press, examines the power of age and masculinity in the everyday lives of African young men and the crafting of the state in Kenya in the twentieth century.
Schenck, MARCIA C.
- You have accessRestricted accessFrom Luanda and Maputo to BerlinUncovering Angolan and Mozambican Migrants’ Motives to Move to the German Democratic Republic (1979–1990)MARCIA C. SCHENCKAfrican Economic History, November 2016, 44 (1) 202-234; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.44.1.202MARCIA C. SCHENCKMarcia C. Schenck () is a PhD candidate in history at Princeton University. Her dissertation focuses on life histories of labor migrants from Angola and Mozambique to the former East Germany. She holds an MSc in African studies from the University of Oxford and a BA, summa cum laude, in international relations from Mount Holyoke College. Her previous work discussed San land rights and ethnicity in South Africa and Namibia. Her research interests include oral history, memory, migration, development, and labor history.
