Jan-Bart Gewald
Jan-Bart Gewald is a socio-cultural historian of southern Africa and professor of African History at Leiden University. He grew up and was educated at a variety of schools in several southern African countries. He began studying towards a BSc in Geology and Physics but graduated with a BA in African History and African Political Studies at Rhodes University in Makhanda (Grahamstown) South Africa. He subsequently completed an MA in history at Leiden University, with stints as an exchange student at Cologne University and the University of Ghana, Legon. He conducted extensive fieldwork and archival research in southern Africa and Europe and completed a PhD in History at Leiden University in 1996. Following postdoc positions in Germany (SFB 389) and Amsterdam (IISG), and residences in Niger, Eritrea, and Botswana, he was appointed as a full-time researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. In Leiden he acquired significant external research funding and was appointed Professor of Southern African History at Leiden University in 2013. He became Professor of African History in 2017 and was Director of the African Studies Centre from 2017-2021. He is currently working on a multi-species history of diamond mining in Kimberley, South Africa, 1870-1920. In 2022 Jan-Bart Gewald was a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS) in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Keywords: African cultural and social history, relationship technology and society, Southern African history, Ghanaian history, African socio-political history, global and imperial history, history of anthropology, contemporary African developments, history of technology in Africa, genocide studies.
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Prof. Dr. J.B. Gewald's profile on the Leiden University website
Patterns of Living in Southern Africa, 1780s to the present
Rethinking African history
Trans-species perspectives on African Studies
DigiDogon: Digitizing Dogon heritage. The legacy of Abirè, the Dogon prophet
The enduring legacy of German colonial rule and the League of Nations mandate in the borderlands of contemporary Africa
Mining Kambove and testing for trypanosomiasis: migrant labour, tsetse flies, and consumption, the establishment of colonial authority and suzerainty on the Luapula border,Northern Rhodesia Katanga, 1904-1914 (2024)
Quaggas and diamonds: the possible relationship between diamond mining and species extinction (2024)
The glory of disaster: the Herero Flag Marches (2021)
'New ordinary' of 'winners' : South Africa as part of BRICS (2019)
Introduction : people, animals, morality, and marginality: reconfiguring wildlife conservation in Southern Africa (2018)
Brothers in arms : Baboon-human interactions, a Southern African perspective (2018)
Nature conservation in Southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation? (2018)
People on the move (2017)
Mensen op drift (2017)
Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history : a festschrift for Robert Ross (2017)
A contested ritual of unity: the Herero Red Flag Day (2017)
Introduction : contributions to history (2017)
"My favourite source is the landscape" : an interview with Robert Ross (2017)
Settlers, semaphores and speculators : the remnants of war in contemporary South Africa (2017)
From roads for form to roads for war : toward a history of roads in colonial Zambia, 1890-1920 (2017)
Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920 (2015)
African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations (2015)
To Grahamstown and back: towards a socio-cultural history of Southern Africa (2014)
Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies (2012)
On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld, colonial Namibia, 1916 -25 (2011)
Die Spanische Grippe in Afrika: Einige Anmerkungen zu Quellenlage und zukünftiger Forschung (2011)
A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: Günther Wagner and the unpublished ethnographic survey (2011)
Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia (2011)
Remote but in contact with history and the world (2010)
Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world (2010)
African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya (2010)
Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa (2009)
Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction (2009)
People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930 (2009)
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000 (2009)
Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer (2009)
Introduction (2008)
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania (2008)
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia (2008)
One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia (2008)
'Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa' written by Stephen J. Rockel (2008)
'Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64' written by L.J. Butler (2008)
'No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War' written by Timothy J. Stapleton (2008)
Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 (2007)
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (2007)
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Transport transforming society : towards a history of transport in Zambia, 1890-1930 (2007)
Researching and writing in the twilight of an imagined conquest : anthropology in Northern Rhodesia 1930-1960 (2007)
Spanish influenza in Africa : some comments regarding source material and future research (2007)
More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2006)
Challenging Nationalist "Historiography" in Settler States: Zimbabwe, Kenya and Namibia (2006)
Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier (2006)
Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001 (2006)
Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte? (2005)
Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage (2005)
Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht (2005)
Learning to wage and win wars in Africa : a provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia (2005)
The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century : towards a socio-historical case study (2005)
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania (2005)
Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992) (2005)
Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien (2005)
Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia) (2005)
From output to outcome? 25 years of IOB evaluations (2004)
Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense (2004)
Ovita ovia Zürn - "Zürn's Krieg" (2004)
The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908 (2004)
Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia (2004)
Chief Hosea Kutako: Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist. A life against confinement, 1870 - 1970 (2004)
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890 - 1923 (2004)
Coming through slaughter: The Herero of Namibia 1904 - 1940 (2004)
Namibia's Past in the Present: Towards Patriotic History? (2004)
Transformations in Transport in Zambia: Peliminary ideas regarding a social history dealing with the introduction of the motor-car in Zambia, 1890 - 1930 (2004)
Urbanisation in Africa, the example of Zambia (2004)
Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture (2004)
Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia (2004)
Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book (2003)
Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory (2003)
Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique (2003)
Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia (2003)
The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas (2003)
Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923 (2003)
Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero (2003)
25 Years IOV-IOB: Competence with Consequence? (2003)
Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966 (2003)
Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915) (2003)
El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2002)
Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (2002)
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914 (2002)
A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner (2002)
Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia (2002)
Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940 (2002)
From the Anecdotal to the Empirical: A Provisional Exploration of Globalisation and Questions of Ownership with particular focus on Africa (2002)
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia (2002)
The first and the last of the Twentieth Century: The Herero and the Rwandan genocides (2002)
Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland (2002)
El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2001)
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland protectorate 1890-1914 (2001)
Anticipating the Kaiser: German soldiers and the Herero genocide (2001)
Death in the streets of Karibib: the Ovamboland famine of 1915 and its impact on Namibian history (2001)
El Negro, el Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2001)
Presenting the past to conquer the future: the political use of the Herero genocide in the course of the twentieth century (2001)
The Herero genocide: Bureaucracy and mass-killing (2001)
Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS (2001)
Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966 (2001)
People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa (2000)
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (2000)
Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933 (2000)
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s (2000)
Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52 (2000)
Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa (2000)
Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991 (2000)
Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946 (2000)
People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction (2000)
Of brothers and war: On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld 1916-1930 (1999)
Remembering genocide to forget divisions: Namibian Herero identity in post-colonial Namibia (1999)
Religion, Labour and Resistance in Namibia - II - The Road of the Man Called Love and the Sack of Sero: The Herero-German War and the Export of Herero Labour to the South African Rand (1999)
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (1999)
Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt (1999)
From Kuruman to Gobabis: Barolong Batlharo traders, trade routes and trade strategies 1880-1904 (1999)
"We will go to the Jews": The re-introduction of circumcision, polygamy and ritual mutilation, and the redefinition of gender relations in central Namibian Herero society, 1920-1940 (1998)
Football, fanfares and funerals: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (1998)
Heaven on earth: Herero conceptualisation of land 1920-1940 (1998)
Herero annual parades: commemorating to create (1998)
Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s (1998)
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920's (1997)
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (1997)
Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914 (1997)
Herero annual parades: commemorating to create (1996)
Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923 (1996)
Death by camel: the Herero succession dispute of 1890-1894 (1995)
The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908 (1995)
Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century (1995)
The curse of Kahimemua: the impact of rinderpest in Hereroland (1994)
History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century (1994)
Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa (1994)
Bakgalagadi ethnic formation in post independence Namibia (1993)
The creation of Damaraland: the creation of a new ethnicity? (1993)
The return of Herero refugees to Namibia post 1914 (1993)
The road of the man called Love and the Sack of Sero: The export of Herero labour to the South African Rand, 1890-1914 (1993)
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958 (1990)
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong (1989)
"A faithful, circumstantial and unvarnished detail of incidents" : a critical reassessment of the accounts relating to Shaka in 'The diary of Henry Francis Fynn' (1989)
Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920
Leiden: African Studies Centre, African studies collection 61, 2015
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To Grahamstown and back: towards a socio-cultural history of Southern Africa
Leiden: Leiden University, 2014
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Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 63, 2005
J.B. Gewald
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From output to outcome? 25 years of IOB evaluations
Amsterdam: Aksant, 2004
J. van Beurden; J.B. Gewald
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Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Sources for African history, ISSN 1570-8721 ; vol. 1 2003
J. Silvester; J.B. Gewald
25 Years IOV-IOB: Competence with Consequence?
Amsterdam: IISG, IISG Working Document 2003
J.B. Gewald; M. Prins
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"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; vol. 8 2000
J.B. Gewald
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923
Oxford: James Currey, 1999
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Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923
Leiden: Research School CNWS, CNWS publications, ISSN 0925-3084 ; vol. 47 1996
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Seeking to return?, Herero exiles 1904-1923
Toronto: [African Studies Association], 1994
J.B. Gewald
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958
[S.l.]: [s.n.], 1990
J.B. Gewald
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong
Leiden: State University, 1989
J.B. Gewald
"A faithful, circumstantial and unvarnished detail of incidents" : a critical reassessment of the accounts relating to Shaka in 'The diary of Henry Francis Fynn'
Leiden: State University, 1989
J.B. Gewald
'The glory of disaster: the Herero Flag Marches'
In: M. Hoondert; P. Post; M. Klomp; M. Barnard: 'Handbook of disaster ritual: multidisciplinary perspectives, cases and themes', Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2021.
'Introduction : people, animals, morality, and marginality: reconfiguring wildlife conservation in Southern Africa'
In: J.B. Gewald; M. Spierenburg; H. Wels: 'Nature conservation in Southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2018.
'Brothers in arms : Baboon-human interactions, a Southern African perspective'
In: J.B. Gewald; M. Spierenburg; H. Wels: 'Nature conservation in Southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2018.
'People on the move'
In: M. Gosselink; M. Holtrop; R. Ross: 'Good Hope. South Africa and The Netherlands from 1600', Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017.
'Mensen op drift'
In: M. Gosselink; M. Holtrop; R. Ross: 'Goede Hoop. Zuid-Afrika en Nederland sinds 1600', Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017.
'Introduction : contributions to history'
In: I. Peša; J.B. Gewald: 'Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history, a festschrift for Robert Ross', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'"My favourite source is the landscape" : an interview with Robert Ross'
In: I. Peša; J.B. Gewald: 'Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history, a festschrift for Robert Ross', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'Settlers, semaphores and speculators : the remnants of war in contemporary South Africa'
In: I. Peša; J.B. Gewald: 'Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history, a festschrift for Robert Ross', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'From roads for form to roads for war : toward a history of roads in colonial Zambia, 1890-1920'
In: W. E. A.van Beek; J.C.M. Damen; D.W.J. Foeken: 'The face of Africa: essays in honour of Ton Dietz', Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), 2017.
'Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world'
In: C. Panella: 'Worlds of debts: interdisciplinary perspectives on gold mining in West Africa', Amsterdam: Rozenberg, 2010.
'African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya'
In: A. Fraser; M. Larmer: 'Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism boom and bust on the globalized copperbelt', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
'Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction'
In: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald: 'The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2009.
'People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930'
In: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald: 'The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2009.
'Introduction'
In: J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola: 'One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2008.
'From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: M. Bollig; O. Bubenzer: 'African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches', New York: Springer, 2008.
'Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940'
In: A. Rao; M. Bollig; M. Böck: 'The Practice of War: Production, reproduction and communication of armed violence', New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007.
'Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and its aftermath', Monmouth: Merlin Press, 2007.
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
In: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan: 'African Alternatives', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2007.
'Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte?'
In: H. Melber: 'Genozid und Gedenken: Namibisch-Deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Beiträge zur Politik mit Kolonialer Vergangenheit', Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005.
'Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage'
In: A. Jones: 'Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen', Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH, 2005.
'Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht'
In: H. Melber: 'Genozid und Gedenken : Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart', Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, 2005.
'Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense'
In: A. Jones: 'Genocide, war crimes and the West : history and complicity', London: Zed Books, 2004.
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'Ovita ovia Zürn - "Zürn's Krieg"'
In: L. von Förster; D. Henrichsen; M. Bollig: 'Namibia-Deutschland : eine geteilte Geschichte : Widerstand, Gewalt, Erinnerung', Köln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 2004.
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'The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908'
In: D.L. Shelton: 'Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity', New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
'Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia'
In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden: Bril, 2004.
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'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction'
In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2004.
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'Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory'
In: G.J. Abbink; M.E. de Bruijn; K. van Walraven: 'Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2003.
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'The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas'
In: M. Bechhaus-Gerst; R. Klein-Arendt: 'Die (koloniale) Begegnung : AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland (1880-1945), Deutsche in Afrika (1880-1918)', Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2003.
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'Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen', Berlin: Links Verlag, 2003.
'Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen', Berlin: Links Verlag, 2003.
'A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner'
In: D. LeBeau; R.J. Gordon: 'Challenges for anthropology in the 'African Renaissance' : a Southern African contribution', Windhoek: University of Namibia Press, 2002.
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'Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: D.F. Bryceson: 'Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics', Portsmouth: NH : Heinemann, 2002.
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'Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933'
In: M. Bollig; J.B. Gewald: 'People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa', Köln: Köppe, 2000.
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'Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s'
In: W.J.G. Möhlig: 'Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias 1880-1930', Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2000.
'People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction'
In: M. Bollig; J.B. Gewald: 'People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa', Köln: Köppe, 2000.
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'Herero annual parades: commemorating to create'
In: H. Behrend; T. Geider: 'Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen', Köln: Köppe, 1998.
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'Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s'
In: W. Hartmann; P. Hayes; J. Silvester: 'The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history', Cape Town [etc.]: University of Cape Town Press, 1998.
'Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century'
In: C. Hamilton: 'The Mfecane Aftermath', Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 1995.
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'History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century'
In: J. van der Kle: 'Proceedings', Utrecht: Ceres, 1994.
Nature conservation in Southern Africa : morality and marginality: towards sentient conservation?
J.B. Gewald; M. Spierenburg; H. Wels (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 16, 2018.
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Magnifying perspectives : contributions to history : a festschrift for Robert Ross
I. Peša; J.B. Gewald (editors)
African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), ASC occasional publications 26, 2017.
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African roads to prosperity : people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations
A. Akinyoade; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 14, 2015.
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Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Peša (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 11, 2012.
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Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia
J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 21, 2011.
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The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
J.B. Gewald; S. Luning; K. van Walraven (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 13, 2009.
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One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia
J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 12, 2008.
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Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 6, 2007.
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Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 3, 2004.
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People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa
J.B. Gewald; M. Bollig (editors)
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; 13 2000.
''New ordinary' of 'winners' : South Africa as part of BRICS'
in: Clingendael spectator, vol. 73, no. 1, 2019.
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'A contested ritual of unity: the Herero Red Flag Day'
in: Journal of ritual studies, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 56 - 74, 2017.
'On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld, colonial Namibia, 1916 -25'
in: Journal of African History, vol. 52, pp. 23 - 42, 2011.
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'Die Spanische Grippe in Afrika: Einige Anmerkungen zu Quellenlage und zukünftiger Forschung'
in: Periplus: Jahrbuch für Außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 152 - 174, 2011.
'Remote but in contact with history and the world'
in: PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 4 2010, vol. 107, no. 18, 2010.
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'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
in: African Diaspora, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 103 - 124, 2009.
'Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania'
in: African Historical Review, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1 - 27, 2008.
'More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium'
in: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 471 - 486, 2006.
'Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo?'
in: Journal of Southern African studies, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 559 - 576, 2004.
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'Ontwikkelingshulp faalt door onkunde'
in: NRC Handelsblad, no. 6 October, 2004.
'Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique'
in: Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens, vol. 58, no. 3000, pp. 977 - 987, 2003.
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'Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 211 - 239, 2003.
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'El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
in: Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 37 - 51, 2002.
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'Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940'
in: Journal of African cultural studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 105 - 117, 2002.
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'"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 211 - 234, 2002.
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'Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940'
in: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 35, no. 2/3, pp. 257 - 285, 2002.
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'El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
in: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 100, no. 401, pp. 555 - 580, 2001.
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'Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52'
in: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 1, no. 2, 2000.
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'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
in: Newsletter Namibia Scientific Society, vol. 41, no. 1-3, pp. 3 - 21, 2000.
'Religion, Labour and Resistance in Namibia - II - The Road of the Man Called Love and the Sack of Sero: The Herero-German War and the Export of Herero Labour to the South African Rand'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 21 - 40, 1999.
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'The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908'
in: Itinerario : bulletin of the Leyden Centre for the History of European Expansion, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 97 - 104, 1995.
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'The great General of the Kaiser'
in: Botswana notes and records, vol. 26, pp. 67 - 76, 1994.
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'Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer'
International Review of Social History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 524 - 527, 2009.
''Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa' written by Stephen J. Rockel'
International Review of Social History, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 145 - 147, 2008.
''Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64' written by L.J. Butler'
Journal of African History, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 489 - 491, 2008.
''No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War' written by Timothy J. Stapleton'
Journal of Military History, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 296 - 297, 2008.
'Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier'
African affairs, vol. 105, no. 420, pp. 481 - 483, 2006.
'Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001'
Journal of African History, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 353 - 355, 2006.
'Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992)'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 186 - 187, 2005.
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'Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 377 - 377, 2005.
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'Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia)'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 173 - 175, 2005.
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'Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia'
International History Review, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 163 - 164, 2004.
'Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966'
Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533 - 536, 2003.
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'Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915)'
Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533 - 536, 2003.
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'Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland'
African studies review : the journal of the African Studies Association, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 122 - 125, 2002.
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'Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS'
Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 268 - 269, 2001.
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'Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966'
Journal of African History, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 157 - 158, 2001.
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'Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991'
African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 99, no. 397, pp. 670 - 671, 2000.
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'Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946'
The journal of African history, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 161 - 162, 2000.
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'Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt'
The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 138 - 139, 1999.
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'Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914'
The international history review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 928 - 930, 1997.
'Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa'
Leidschrift, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 123 - 131, 1994.
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