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PART 1Mary Mennis taped the voices of village elders along the Madang coast in the 1970s. Topics included: origins of the tribes; traditional village life before outside contact; spiritual beliefs; weather magic; men¿s houses and initiations; and the customs of trading in triple-deck canoes along the coast using earthenware pots as collateral. It also covers the origins of their cargo cults which differ from the theory proposed by Peter Lawrence. Mary Mennis and her husband, Brian lived in Papua New Guinea for 20 years between 1962 and 1982. Brian, a surveyor, was posted to Madang for eight years beginning in 1971 when the centenary of Miklouho Maclay was being celebrated in Madang. After reading his accounts of the large trading canoes he saw in 1871, Mary became fascinated in the local culture. She discovered the people had stopped building these canoes during the war in the 1940s. She then encouraged 5 old men who still had the knowledge to build another canoe in 1978 and she documented its construction, the magic of the weather men; the pots they traded and the whole trading system. This knowledge was on the verge of being lost. Launching one of Mary¿s earlier books, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, first Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea thanked her for her work and said the book "The Flagged History of Madang" would play a great role in educating the young people.PART 2 What were the villagers¿ reactions to the outsiders who came to Madang? These are found in taped interviews in the 1970s from memories handed down from earlier generations. First was Miklouho Maclay who arrived in 1871. The people thought he was from the moon. In 1884 when Madang became a German Province, the villagers were forced to work on plantations and on clearing land. They wanted to return to their old ways of trading and having feasts. They revolted in 1904 and were harshly punished. During WW II the Japanese occupied Madang and again their way of life was affected. After the war the Australian Government was in charge until 1975 when Papua New Guinea became independent. In these pages we discover what the people thought about all these changes. Basically they saw the Germans as the first bosses then they left and the Australians took over, then during the war the Japanese arrived and they were the new bosses. You had to do what they said or you would be in trouble. The final part of Part 2 contains the memories of the Motu traders, the hiri trade and the large lagatoi canoes which carried pots to the Gulf in exchange for the much needed sago. These interviews were made in 1995, 50 years after the end of WW II. These two volumes "Voices of the Villagers" have preserved much knowledge of the history and culture of the Bel people of Madang and to a lesser extent that of the Motu people of Port Moresby.

The growth of Christianity is one of the major themes of modern African history, yet the emergence of a Christian visual art across the sub-Saharan region has largely been overlooked. (The exception, of course, is Ethiopian Christianity, which has a substantial literature.)This book presents a series of papers dealing with developments in many countries, particularly in the provision of an art that has its place within a liturgical context, and thus situated at the core of Christian ritual practice. Perhaps inevitably, the project of ¿inculturation¿ within the local modernities of sub-Saharan Africa, is a history of both success and failure. In this regard, there is an emphasis on developments in Nigeria (following from the research interests of the editors); but it is hoped that this book will provide the stimulus to further research and publication. Whatever the ups and downs of the histories these papers present, Christianity has proved to be a context in which some works of art of world art-historical significance have been brought into existence.

This publication is the first handbook of the Mabia languages of West Africa. This group of languages, numbering about 80, are spoken as first languages by more than 30 million people who live mostly in the Savanna grasslands of West Africa - in present-day northern Ghana, northern Cote d¿Ivoire, northern Togo, northern Benin, northwest Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali.This first handbook comprises of works in about 10 of these languages, including Dagaare, Guren¿, Dagbane, Kasem, Kusaal, Buli, Sisaala, Safaliba, and Mampruli. Care has, however, been taken to include data from other languages in the chapters on these main languages.The 12 chapters in this book cover key aspects of the linguistics of Mabia languages, including the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and literary appreciation. This book is essential reading for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as a core reference resource for established scholars and the general public.

Women and girls in Nigeria face different levels of sexual and gender-based violence, both in private and public life, often without protection from the law. Compounding the problem of women and their rights is Nigeriäs pluralist legal system, which includes Customary and Sharia Laws that often reinforce sex stereotypes and encourage men to view women as subordinate and inferior beings. The Police and the criminal justice system have not satisfactorily offered protection to victims of violence; only reluctantly intervening where absolutely unavoidable. The seeming inability of law enforcement officers (especially the Police) to adequately respond to and investigate cases of violence (especially against women) and to prosecute suspected perpetrators is a major obstacle to addressing the issue of violence against women and girls. In this context, the Women Aid Collective (WACOL) ¿ which deems it imperative to work towards the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls ¿ organized a conference cum training exercise for Nigerian Police Officers within the Enugu State Police Command in partnership with the Action Aid Nigeria with funding support from the Global Affairs Canada under the Women, Voice and Leadership project. The training exercise, which took place on September 17, 2020, at Dannic Hotels, Enugu, sought to sensitize the Police on existing laws and policies on violence, especially against women and girls. It also tried to strengthen the capacity of the Police to provide effective responses to victims/survivors of violence in search of justice. This edited collection is the end product of the combined conference and training exercise and provides academics, students, activists, feminists, civil society organizations, the security sector, and administrators of justice with information on extant laws protecting women from sexual and gender based violence and expected action to ensure their effective implementation in practice.

It has not only been interesting but equally challenging to research on environment law and specifically the integration of indigenous communities in the management of environmental or natural resources given the cross disciplinary nature of the subject. The need to integrate indigenous or local communities in the management of environmental resources cannot be gainsaid, given the importance of these resources for the sustainability of life. It is certainly for this reason that the international community is advocating for the integration of indigenous people in the management of environmental resources. In this book, the author is worried that Regional and International Conventions to which Cameroon is a signatory advocate the integration of indigenous communities in the management of environmental resources. Yet these communities are still to become an effective component of the management process. This calls for an investigation whether indigenous communities are integrated in the management of natural resources following the provisions of International and Regional Conventions, national laws and cultural practices of local communities or they are simply conceptual.Through analyses of primary and secondary data, the author highlights the need to endowed integrated management concepts with characteristics envisaged by international conventions and strongly recommends the use of traditional institutions and customary practices in integrating local communities in the management of environmental or natural resources.

This book volume engages the emergent ways and exercises of world-making in eastern African literatures and cultures. It also includes how the world comes to eastern Africa as well as how eastern Africa speaks to the world. Writers within the region have come up with novel commentaries on diverse social issues. Artists and other users have invented new forms of expression through digitalization. The structure and content of this literature and cultural conversations, in line with modernity, has exhibited a fluidity that calls for the critical appraisal carried out in this book.Therefore, this book volume centralises the emergence of new patterns of engagement in the literatures and cultures of the region. Taking cue from the cultural transformations, technological advancements and political influences, the volume raises questions on politics, conflict and war, and the evolving genres and canon. The book crosses language barriers beyond English and includes critical attention to texts written in the Swahili and French languages. The chapters aim to give a broad overview of the writings and cultural expressions in the eastern African region, including novels, films, short stories, theatre, poetry, oral, and digital performances.TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: An Overview of Trends in Eastern African Literatures and CulturesOduor Obura Part One: The Evolving Literary CanonLiterary Disruptions of the Ugandan Canon in Selected Ugandan Short StoriesEdgar NabutanyiA Discipline under Siege: Interrogating the Place of Literature in English in the Secondary School Curriculum in TanzaniaObala Musumba Cartographies of Killing: Transnational Drones in Eye in the SkyJana Fedtke Performing in the Cyber Space: The Online Mchongoano BattlesKimingichi WabendeMobile Phones in the Public Space: Communication as Contextual Cultural Practice in KenyaJames OgonePart Two: Conflict, Politics, and WarNarrating Violence in Burundian Genocide and Civil War Literature: Pacifique Irankundäs ¿Playing at Violence¿Jodi MikalachkiViolence and the Multivocality of Silence in Roland Rugerös Novels Giuseppe Sofo Conflicts in Memories, History and National Identity in Burundian LiteraturePierre Boizette¿The Aporia in Eastern African War Narratives as Reflected in Uwem Akpan¿s ¿My Parents¿ Bedroom¿ and Misago Aloys¿ La Descente aux enfersMarie-Thérèse ToyiEthiopian Dissident Fiction: Countering Despotism in Hama Tumäs Short StoriesGeorge Otieno OdhiamboAgony on Stage: The Intrigues of Building Houses in The Rubble Rouser, performed at the 58th Edition of the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival (KSCDF)Pepetual Mforbe ChiangongPart Three: Recent Interventions in Swahili WritingUWARIDI Initiative: The Innovative Transformation of a Self-help Project by Tanzanian Novelists into a Powerful Literary SpaceUta Reuster-JahnSwahili Poetry in the New Millennium: Established and Emerging TrendsFlavia Aiello, Roberto Gaudioso and Emiliano MinerbaLinking the Centuries: The ¿Big Four¿ of Kenyan Swahili WritingMikhail D. Gromov