Living with the past
The songs of the Herero in Botswana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2511274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirsten Alnaes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-299 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1160229 |
| OpenAlex | W2022840199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 34 |
Introduction'I am in the Batawana's country,' wrote the Herero chief Samuel Maharero to the British Magistrate in Tsau in Ngamiland on 28 September 1904. 'I am writing to tell you that I have been fighting with the Germans in my country; the Germans were my friends; they made me suffer so much by the manner in which they troubled me, that I fought with them...' (PRO CO 879/80). On the same date he wrote to the Tawana chief Sekgoma: 'I tell you that I have fought with the German, they trouble me and killed my people, then I was angry about that. I have fought with them for 8 (eight) months, and I have no ammunition to-day, this is the reason why I came here...' (PRO CO 879/86
Ancient history · Archaeology · German · Magistrate · Political science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
Infertility in Herero pastoralists of southern Africa
Adolf Bastian
The role of the Igede poet Micah Ichegbeh's Adiyah songs in the political and moral education of his local audiences
Herero households
The Herero
Entangled history and politics
The Merits and Predicaments of Opacity
Archive of Darkness
Effect of infertility on the population structure of the Herero and Mbanderu of southern Africa
Funerals and the Public Space of Sentiment in Botswana
Living with the past
The predicament of dress
From `General Field Marshal' To `Miss Genocide
Love and Jealousy in the Space of Death
The Ironies of Pop
South-West Africa under German rule, 1894-1914.
Magomero
Banditry, rebellion and social protest in Africa
The Mwindo Epic
Botswana
Oral Tradition as History
The Story of an African Famine
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
Pastoral Identity and Reluctance to Change
Magomero
The Heroic Recitations of the Bahima of Ankole
Namibia, 1884-1984
Notes on some Herero genealogies
Oral literature in Africa
South West Africa in Early Times
Divinity and Experience
The African Past Speaks
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Botswana
Let Us Die Fighting
The Mwindo Epic
There Was a Certain Man. Spoken Art of the Fipa
The Native Tribes of South West Africa
The Story of an African Famine
Magomero
Formal Speech Acts as One Discourse
The Dinka and Their Songs
The Content and Form of Yoruba ijala
Praise Poems of Tswana Chiefs
Living with the past
Double Descent and Its Correlates among the Herero of Ngamiland1
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2022 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |