The Kavango Peoples in the Past

Local Historiographies from Northern Namibia

Author: Axel Fleisch, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †. Series edited by: Michael Bollig, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.

Series: HSA History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa Volume 14

2002
344 pp.
5 maps, 19 b/w photos, 1 folded table (genealogical chart), 5 tables, index of authors and place names
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
620 g
Paperback
€ 59.80

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This book focuses on seven historiographical texts in local Bantu languages on the immigration and settlement of five ethnic groups (Gciriku, Shambyu, Mbunza, Kwangali, Tjaube), who still live or formerly lived in the valley of the middle Kavango (Namibia / Angola). Some of the texts are chronicles that were passed down from generation to generation. Others were recently conceived by individual authors.

All texts were either dictated to mediators or the editors or, right from the beginning, were written down by the authors for local school purposes. The editors of the present volume translated every text sentence by sentence into English and provided it with a critical apparatus. Furthermore, they added to each text a short description on the country an its people, on the history of the text production and a presentation of its author. Five maps, 19 photos in black and white and six tables with the names of the acting persons and showing their relations are meant to serve the readability of the book as well as the extensive index on persons and subjects at its end.

 

Under these links you will find publications by the authors and further descriptions of languages, cultures and of the history of the Kavango region in Namibia / southern Angola:

Accompanying material:

• „For the Power and Glory“ (ISBN 978-3-89645-451-5)
• A Dictionary of the Rumanyo Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-601-4)
• A Grammar of Yeyi (ISBN 978-3-89645-549-9)
• A Grammatical Sketch of Rugciriku (Rumanyo) (ISBN 978-3-89645-542-0)
• A Tonal Grammar of Kwanyama (ISBN 978-3-89645-084-5)
• Der Caprivizipfel während der deutschen Kolonialzeit 1890–1914 (ISBN 978-3-89645-050-0)
• Die südafrikanische Militärverwaltung (1915–1920) und die frühe Mandatszeit (1920–1936) in der Kavango-Region / Namibia (ISBN 978-3-89645-360-0)
• Herrschaft, Macht und Einfluß (ISBN 978-3-89645-359-4)
• Konzeptualisierung von Landschaft im Mbukushu (K.333/K.43) Bantusprache in Nord-Namibia) (ISBN 978-3-89645-600-7)
• Lucazi Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-038-8)
• The Mbukushu in Angola (ISBN 978-3-89645-350-1)
• Trommeln in der Kirche (ISBN 978-3-89645-917-6)

Cross-reference:

• “Grandmother’s Footsteps” (ISBN 978-3-89645-056-2)
• “When War came the Cattle slept” (ISBN 978-3-89645-049-4)
• „Derjenige, der sich selbst erschaffen hat …“ (ISBN 978-3-89645-283-2)
• A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (Otjiherero) (ISBN 978-3-89645-044-9)
• Ein Leben im Dienste der Afrikanistik (ISBN 978-3-89645-631-1)
• Ethnische Grenzen und Frontlinien in Angola (ISBN 978-3-89645-356-3)
• Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias, 1880–1930 (ISBN 978-3-89645-058-6)
• Narrations of the Kavango (ISBN 978-3-89645-279-5)
• Reference Grammar of Herero (Otjiherero) (ISBN 978-3-89645-602-1)
• Singing in the Bush (ISBN 978-3-89645-355-6)
• Sprachkulturelle und historische Forschungen in Afrika (ISBN 978-3-927620-97-1)

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