• 1. Introduction: Slavery, Social Revolutions, and Enduring Memories
• SECTION 1: SLAVE SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION IN THE AFRICAN INTERIOR: CASE STUDIES FROM THE SUDANIC BELT
• 2. Warfare, Captives and the Foundations of the Segou State
• 3. Memories of Slavery in Kaarta, Mali
• 4. The Medieval Slave Trade of the Central Sahel: Archaeological and Historical Considerations
• 5. Slavery and Slaving in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Kingdoms of the Middle Nile.
• 6. Enslavement and Everyday Life: Living with Slave Raiding in the Northeastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon
• SECTION 2: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
• 7. Archaeological Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade: Contrasts in Time and Space in Benin and Guinea
• 8. Slaves Without Shackles: An Archaeology of Everyday Life on Goree Island, Senegal
• 9. Different Conversations About the Same Thing? Source Materials in the Recreation of a Nineteenth-Century, Slave-Raiding Landscape, Northern Ghana
• 10. Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial Slavery: Placing Africa in the African Diaspora Studies in the Caribbean
• SECTION 3: ELUSIVE SLAVERY: DETECTING ENSLAVEMENT IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF EASTERN AFRICA
• 11. The Invisible Archaeology of Slavery in the Horn of Africa?
• 12. Monuments of Predation: Turco-Egyptian Forts in Western Ethiopia
• 13. Slavery and Slave Trading in Eastern Africa: Exploring the Intersections of Historical Sources and Archaeological Evidence.
• SECTION 4: REMEMBERING SLAVERY: CONTEMPORARY PERCEPTIONS
• 14. Recovering and Remembering a Slave Route in Central Tanzania
• 15. Memory, Oral History and the End of Slavery in Tanzania: Some Methodological Considerations
• 16. The Present in the Past: How Narratives of the Slave-Raiding Era Inform Current Politics in Northern and Central Nigeria
• 17. Constructing and Contesting Histories of Slavery at the Cape, South Africa
• 18. Place of History: Archaeology and Heritage at Cidade Velha, Cape Verde.
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The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological and archaeological research. Public remembrances - such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this volume also commemorates - have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sliding scale of 'rights in persons' or due to acts of violence, has a history on the African continent that extends back in time long before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The nature of such enslavement is obscured by the lack of resolution in historical sources before the middle of the second millennium AD. Ground-breaking archaeological research is now building models for approaching slave labour systems via collaboration with historians and the critical scrutiny of historical data. Generally, such new research focuses at the landscape scale; rather than attempting to find physical evidence of slavery per se, it assesses the settlement systems of slavery-based economies, and the depopulation and abandonment which followed from wars of enslavement. The potential utility of this work is considerable, and is ultimately the only means whereby researchers will be able to resolve the many 'chicken-or-egg' issues which beset the historical study of slavery in Africa. Recent decades have also witnessed an increase in attempts to commemorate and memorialise slavery on the African continent, through a combination of museum displays, historic site interpretation and public history projects. Unfortunately, there are still very few critical discussions of relevant case studies of this kind of public archaeology across the continent, and few examples of good practice. This volume addresses this lack by offering a selection of papers on recent archaeological studies of slavery, slave resistance and their contemporary commemoration, alongside archaeological assessments of the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave trading in a variety of historical and geographical settings.
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• 1. Strings Attached: AIDS and the rise of transnational connections in Africa
• PART 1: TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CONSERVATIVE AGENDAS
• 2. Sponsored Sexuality, AIDS and Tough Choices
• 3. Hands across the Sea: Religion, politics, gender and sex, in the US and Africa
• 4. From an Activist's Point of View: Experiencing transnational dynamics among African migrant communities in the UK
• 5. Global Moralities, Local Responses: Interpreting sexual morality and social belonging in Uganda
• PART 2: TRANSNATIONAL POWER AND LOCAL AGENCY
• 6. Transnational Religious Networks Encounter Community Realities: HIV prevention in Zambia
• 7. Condoms, Pills and Professional Identity: The transnational ART Scale-up Project and Catholic HIV/AIDS counsellors in Uganda
• 8. Contested Sexualities and Shared Concerns: Power dynamics in a transnational network of faith-based organisations
• 9. 'I don't want to hear': HIV, AIDS and the power of words in Bushbuckridge, South Africa
• PART 3: TRANSNATIONAL IDEAS AND LOCAL DISCOURSES ABOUT SEXUALITY
• 10. 'If you cannot control yourself': Christian leaders as HIV preventers in Malawi
• 11. Let's talk about sex: Islam and sexuality in positive Muslims' 'Theology of compassion'
• 12. The Choice of Health: Christian family planning among cosmopolitan educated professionals in times of HIV/AIDS in Botswana
• PART 4: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND HOMOSEXUALITY
• 13. 'Decadent Imports', 'Vile Abominations': (Under)developing discourses on male- male sex and the missionary position in Buganda, 1875-1910
• 14. A Backlash of the Hegemony of Human Rights Discourse and Transnational Moralities: The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill
• 15. The Mode of Transmission that Dare not Speak its Name: Islam, AIDS and the public secret of homosexuality in Northern Nigeria
• EPILOGUE
• 16. Strings, Strains and Strides of Transnational Competence: Complex ambiguities.
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Religion has become deeply involved in HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention, and is substantially influencing attitudes and behaviour in the domains of sexuality, relationships and the body. At the same time, AIDS as a disease, as a field of biomedicine, and as a realm of international aid interventions is heavily affecting socio-religious formations and developments in Africa. Religion and AIDS are transforming African public and private domains together. Yet, scant attention is paid to the ways in which this intertwined engagement between the domains of religion and the domains of AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in African societies become increasingly linked to an outside world. This book seeks to address the question why so much of the transnational religious engagement with the disease has seemed to serve a conservative agenda. It is unique in drawing attention to the transnationalisation of religion and AIDS in Africa. The disciplinary scope for studying this phenomenon is wide-ranging as it speaks to anthropological, sociological, developmental, historical, and religious studies, and global health perspectives on these issues. Introducing concepts from the study of transnationalism into the study of religion and AIDS and their mutual intertwinement, this book offers the various fields which explore how religious ideologies and moralities have been shaping the experience of AIDS in Africa a new set of conceptual tools for analysis. The multi-disciplinary, empirical chapters from a wide range of localities shows how African public domains are being shaped by forces that are transnational, steered by forceful religious and moral agendas, and often have substantial international resources behind them. These are, so the authors argue, the strings attached to the present-day transnational, religious involvement with AIDS in Africa.
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