scholarly journals Psychology and Corruption: The East African Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East African ◽  
African Experience

AN EAST AFRICAN EXPERIENCE

1939 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-270
Author(s):  
A. Rowland Pittway.
Keyword(s):  
East African ◽  
African Experience

Economic Integration: The East African Experience

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Donald Rothchild ◽  
Arthur Hazlewood
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
East African ◽  
African Experience

Combat at High Altitude: the South African Experience in East Africa, 1941

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Evert Kleynhans
Keyword(s):  
High Altitude ◽  
East Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
The South ◽  
East African ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Supportive Role ◽  
Difficult Terrain ◽  
First Time

Abstract Mountainous terrain has distinctly influenced combat operations throughout history. Warfare at high altitude often takes place in extreme weather conditions and over difficult terrain, which is largely considered to be inaccessible, inhospitable, and at times lacking any apparent strategic or operational value. As a result, combat operations at high altitudes are traditionally infantry affairs. The South African deployment to East Africa during the Second World War was for the most part characterised by highly mobile operations, across deserts and scrubland, where infantry, armour and artillery deployed in a mutually supportive role. The penultimate battles of the East African campaign were, however, fought in extremely severe terrain, where the South African troops would experience the harsh realities of mountain warfare for the first time during the war. This article broadly investigates the exigencies of mountain warfare, and critically reflects on the South African wartime experience of mountain warfare in East Africa.

Max Yergan, Marxism and Mission during the Interwar Era

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-291
Author(s):  
David Henry Anthony
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
World War ◽  
East African ◽  
World War One ◽  
Nineteen Twenties ◽  
The North ◽  
African Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Protestantism

AbstractFrom 1922 through 1936 Max Yergan, an African-American graduate of historically Black Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina represented the North American YMCA in South Africa through the auspices of the Student Christian Association. A student secretary since his sophomore year in 1911, with Indian and East African experience in World War One, Yergan's star rose sufficiently to permit him entry into the racially challenging South Africa field after a protracted campaign waged on his behalf by such interfaith luminaries as Gold Coast proto nationalist J.E.K. Aggrey and the formidable Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. Arriving on the eve of the Great Rand Mine Strike of 1922, Yergan's South African years were punctuated by political concerns. Entering the country as an Evangelical Pan-Africanist influenced by the social gospel thrust of late nineteenth and early twentieth century American Protestantism that reached the YMCA and other faith-friendly but nondenominational organizations, Yergan became favorably disposed to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist doctrine in the course of his South African posting. Against the backdrop of the labor agitation of the post World War One era and the expansion and transformation of the South African Communist Party that occurred during the mid to late nineteen twenties, Yergan's response to what he termed "the appeal of Communism" made him an avatar of a liberation theology fusing Marxist revolution and Christianity. This paper details some of the trajectory of that momentous and profound personal evolution.

Ali A. Mazrui & Alamin M. Mazrui, The power of Babel: Language and governance in the African experience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Oxford: James Currey; Kampala: Fountain Publishers; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers; Cape Town: David Philip, 1998. Pp. xii, 228. Hb $40.00, pb $15.25.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-449
Author(s):  
Carol Myers-Scotton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
The United States ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Official Language ◽  
State University ◽  
East African ◽  
African Heritage ◽  
African Experience

To understand this book, a little background information helps. I first encountered Ali Mazrui in 1968–70 when I was the first lecturer in linguistics at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda; Mazrui, a member of the political science faculty, was already a famous orator, acknowledged by all as possessing “a golden tongue.” Since then, he has gone on to become probably the most famous African studies professor in the United States; he was the presenter of the nine-part BBC/PBS television series The Africans: A triple heritage, and he is the author of many books and articles on Africa. He has taught at many universities around the world, and is now director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His junior co-author (a relative?), Alamin M. Mazrui, was trained as a linguist and is an associate professor of Black studies at Ohio State University. Both are native speakers of Swahili from Mombasa, Kenya (they prefer to refer to the language as Kiswahili, with its noun class prefix, as it would be if one were speaking the language itself). Kiswahili, of course, is probably the best-known African language; many people in East Africa and other areas (e.g. the Democratic Republic of Congo) speak it as a second language. Furthermore, it is one of the few indigenous languages with official status in an African nation; it is the official language of Tanzania, and the co-official language in Kenya along with English. However, Kiswahili is spoken natively mainly along the East African coastline and on the offshore islands (e.g. Zanzibar), often by persons with a dual Arabic-African heritage similar to that of the Mazruis.

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