Nancy Rushohora
Biographic Data
| ID | 236420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Rushohora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushohora |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHOHORA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3025-3311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Encountering Archaeology in Southern Tanzania
Archaeological research often emphasises the outcomes: what has been discovered, the material culture unearthed, and the broader implications for understanding past societies. Less attention is paid to the process: the discovery of sites, the journey to remote locations, and the inherent ambiguities of interpreting material culture. This paper explores the challenges and uncertainties I faced in archaeological work in the Majimaji War region of s…
Myth and Mythology in the Conservation of Tanzania’s Forest and Water Resources
This paper examines the ontological and epistemological foundations of myths and mythology in African contexts, highlighting their role in shaping the understanding of the world’s origins and structure through supernatural narratives. Transmitted across generations via oral traditions, myths serve as dynamic cultural expressions whose meanings vary in every community, resisting homogenization and necessitating context-specific analysis. Through a…
Tanzania and the Apparent Lack of Restitution Activism
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
Demanding Images and Memories of Colonial Violence in Tanzania
This article analyses the complex histories and contemporary uses of a colonial-era photograph of Nduna Songea Mbano Lwafu, a sub-chief in Tanzania, taken before his execution during the Majimaji War (1904–1908). The photograph, initially used for colonial anthropological purposes, has been repurposed in postcolonial Tanzania to memorialise and honour national heroes. The study traces the photograph’s journey from its creation by German colonial …
Monuments of the Exiles and Memorialisation of Shared Heritage Between Mozambique and Tanzania
The Tanzanian landscape has a long history with exiled nationalist organisations from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The case of Mozambique is unique. It was in Dar es Salaam that FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) was born in 1962; but the great Mozambican nationalist Edward Mondlane was assassinated in the same city in 1969. This paper presents the ruins of the FRELIMO camp in Nachingwea, Tanzania, to elaborate t…
Archaeology of the Majimaji War
Revelations of Dominance and Resilience
Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution
German colonisation of Tanzania was entrenched in the militia and a coercive apparatus that sought to both suppress local communities and dominate their territories. A network of institutions such as the boma, prison, askari, akida and chiefs were either set up or perverted to establish a colonial system of justice that destroyed the local authorities. This alien system legalised forced labour, imprisonment, detention in chains and corporal punis…
Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation
Colonial masters considered it their right to take human remains collected from colonies or plundered as a result of war. The skulls of Chief Mkwawa and the sub-chief Songea were looted in the same manner from Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to Germany. While Chief Mkwawa’s skull was returned in 1954, the demands for sub-chief Songea’s skull are ongoing, with the Tanzanian community contesting ownership of human remains in European museums. The absence…
Facts and Fictions of the Majimaji War Graves in Southern Tanzania
Cults, Crosses, and Crescents
More often than not, Africans employed local religion and the seemingly antagonistic faith of Christianity and Islam, to respond to colonial exploitation, cruelty, and violence. Southern Tanzanians' reaction during the Majimaji resistance presents a case in point where the application of local religion, Christianity, and Islam for both individual and community spiritual solace were vivid. Kinjekitile Ngwale-the prominent war ritualist-prophesied …
Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania
In Tanzanian museums, in commemorative booklets, in books, on websites and in the hands of families, historical photographs convey visually the history of Majimaji, a colonial war in which Africans resisted from 1905 to 1907. This resistance was fought against German colonisation in the southern and eastern regions of Tanzania. As popular media of remembrance, photographs are used in public and private commemoration of the Majimaji war. As histor…
Theorising the Majimaji – Landscape, Memory and Agency
The Majimaji was a war of resistance against German colonial rule in Tanzania which occurred between 1905 and 1907. The war is largely known from historical sources which include the German observers of the war, African historians and Africanist historians. Very few archaeological researches inform the Majimaji war. Although the materiality of the war exists, the landscape and memories of the war create a potential database for archaeologists.Thi…
German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania
Journal Article German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania Get access Nancy Rushohora Nancy Rushohora Address correspondence to Nancy Rushohora, University of Pretoria, Archaeology and Anthropology, Lynwood Road, Pretoria, South Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2017, Pages 481–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shw0…
Are We Not all Archaeologists
Archaeology in Tanzania survived under the history department for decades; thus, excavation has been the major distinction between historians and archaeologists. This has also affected how archaeology is viewed among archaeologists themselves who consider excavation based researches as ‘proper’ archaeology with less recognition of professional archaeologists who use documents and oral history without excavation. This essay is a plea for Tanzanian…
An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji
An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji
Facts and Fictions of the Majimaji War Graves in Southern Tanzania
German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania
Journal Article German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania Get access Nancy Rushohora Nancy Rushohora Address correspondence to Nancy Rushohora, University of Pretoria, Archaeology and Anthropology, Lynwood Road, Pretoria, South Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2017, Pages 481–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shw0…
Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution
German colonisation of Tanzania was entrenched in the militia and a coercive apparatus that sought to both suppress local communities and dominate their territories. A network of institutions such as the boma, prison, askari, akida and chiefs were either set up or perverted to establish a colonial system of justice that destroyed the local authorities. This alien system legalised forced labour, imprisonment, detention in chains and corporal punis…
Theorising the Majimaji – Landscape, Memory and Agency
The Majimaji was a war of resistance against German colonial rule in Tanzania which occurred between 1905 and 1907. The war is largely known from historical sources which include the German observers of the war, African historians and Africanist historians. Very few archaeological researches inform the Majimaji war. Although the materiality of the war exists, the landscape and memories of the war create a potential database for archaeologists.Thi…
An Archaeological Identity of the Majimaji
Are We Not all Archaeologists
Archaeology in Tanzania survived under the history department for decades; thus, excavation has been the major distinction between historians and archaeologists. This has also affected how archaeology is viewed among archaeologists themselves who consider excavation based researches as ‘proper’ archaeology with less recognition of professional archaeologists who use documents and oral history without excavation. This essay is a plea for Tanzanian…
Theorising the Majimaji – Landscape, Memory and Agency
The Majimaji was a war of resistance against German colonial rule in Tanzania which occurred between 1905 and 1907. The war is largely known from historical sources which include the German observers of the war, African historians and Africanist historians. Very few archaeological researches inform the Majimaji war. Although the materiality of the war exists, the landscape and memories of the war create a potential database for archaeologists.Thi…
German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania
Journal Article German Colonial Missionaries and the Majimaji Memorials in Southern Tanzania Get access Nancy Rushohora Nancy Rushohora Address correspondence to Nancy Rushohora, University of Pretoria, Archaeology and Anthropology, Lynwood Road, Pretoria, South Africa. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 50, Issue 3, March 2017, Pages 481–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shw0…
Look at Majimaji! A plea for historical photographs in Tanzania
In Tanzanian museums, in commemorative booklets, in books, on websites and in the hands of families, historical photographs convey visually the history of Majimaji, a colonial war in which Africans resisted from 1905 to 1907. This resistance was fought against German colonisation in the southern and eastern regions of Tanzania. As popular media of remembrance, photographs are used in public and private commemoration of the Majimaji war. As histor…
Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution
German colonisation of Tanzania was entrenched in the militia and a coercive apparatus that sought to both suppress local communities and dominate their territories. A network of institutions such as the boma, prison, askari, akida and chiefs were either set up or perverted to establish a colonial system of justice that destroyed the local authorities. This alien system legalised forced labour, imprisonment, detention in chains and corporal punis…
Desperate Mourning and Atrophied Representation
Colonial masters considered it their right to take human remains collected from colonies or plundered as a result of war. The skulls of Chief Mkwawa and the sub-chief Songea were looted in the same manner from Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to Germany. While Chief Mkwawa’s skull was returned in 1954, the demands for sub-chief Songea’s skull are ongoing, with the Tanzanian community contesting ownership of human remains in European museums. The absence…
Facts and Fictions of the Majimaji War Graves in Southern Tanzania
Cults, Crosses, and Crescents
More often than not, Africans employed local religion and the seemingly antagonistic faith of Christianity and Islam, to respond to colonial exploitation, cruelty, and violence. Southern Tanzanians' reaction during the Majimaji resistance presents a case in point where the application of local religion, Christianity, and Islam for both individual and community spiritual solace were vivid. Kinjekitile Ngwale-the prominent war ritualist-prophesied …
Archaeology of the Majimaji War
Revelations of Dominance and Resilience
Monuments of the Exiles and Memorialisation of Shared Heritage Between Mozambique and Tanzania
The Tanzanian landscape has a long history with exiled nationalist organisations from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The case of Mozambique is unique. It was in Dar es Salaam that FRELIMO (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique) was born in 1962; but the great Mozambican nationalist Edward Mondlane was assassinated in the same city in 1969. This paper presents the ruins of the FRELIMO camp in Nachingwea, Tanzania, to elaborate t…
Working with Grievous Images’, a special issue of History of Photography
1. Pierre Schill: My research on the 1911 visual coverage of the war in Tripolitania stems from a chance encounter. I was working on a different topic and came across some old and damaged positive
Demanding Images and Memories of Colonial Violence in Tanzania
This article analyses the complex histories and contemporary uses of a colonial-era photograph of Nduna Songea Mbano Lwafu, a sub-chief in Tanzania, taken before his execution during the Majimaji War (1904–1908). The photograph, initially used for colonial anthropological purposes, has been repurposed in postcolonial Tanzania to memorialise and honour national heroes. The study traces the photograph’s journey from its creation by German colonial …
Tanzania and the Apparent Lack of Restitution Activism
Myth and Mythology in the Conservation of Tanzania’s Forest and Water Resources
This paper examines the ontological and epistemological foundations of myths and mythology in African contexts, highlighting their role in shaping the understanding of the world’s origins and structure through supernatural narratives. Transmitted across generations via oral traditions, myths serve as dynamic cultural expressions whose meanings vary in every community, resisting homogenization and necessitating context-specific analysis. Through a…
Encountering Archaeology in Southern Tanzania
Archaeological research often emphasises the outcomes: what has been discovered, the material culture unearthed, and the broader implications for understanding past societies. Less attention is paid to the process: the discovery of sites, the journey to remote locations, and the inherent ambiguities of interpreting material culture. This paper explores the challenges and uncertainties I faced in archaeological work in the Majimaji War region of s…
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