Bushman Folklore

Africa ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea F. Bleek
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe name of Bushman has been given to a small and rapidly JL diminishing race of African natives who were, and in places still are, scattered over the central and southern parts of the continent from the Cape to near the Equator. They seem to be the survivors of very early inhabitants of this portion of the world, and were certainly here before the allied race of Hottentots or any Bantu-speaking people arrived.

The world of the Yoruba taxi driver: an interpretive approach to vehicle slogans

Africa ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
World View ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Wealth Status ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
The World ◽  
Status Mobility ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the slogans which are so prominent and ubiquitous on motor vehicles as expressions of social stratification among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria. I interpret the slogans in the context of the taxi owners' and drivers' social interactions, not just as disembodied expressions of a total Yoruba world view. In studying the slogans I pay particular attention to processes of accumulation of wealth, status mobility and the way these are affected by cultural values. It is argued that the vehicle owners make different claims at different stages of their careers. Their fears and hopes at each stage must be understood in the light of the contemporary Christian and traditional mix of beliefs about destiny, the world and God.

Part 2 Some Features of Flight Testing on the Fairey F.D.2 Leading up to the Successful Attempt on the World Speed Record and Subsequent Flying

1957 ◽  
Vol 61 (559) ◽  
pp. 447-466
Author(s):  
L. P. Twiss
Keyword(s):  
Flight Test ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Test Report ◽  
Handling Characteristics ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
The World ◽  
Air Speed ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Interesting Development ◽  
Engineering Personnel

The opening paragraph in my first Flight Test Report after the initial flight of the Fairey Delta 2 still rings very true today:—“This aircraft shews every promise of being a very pleasant flying machine. Soon after take-off, I had confidence in the handling characteristics, and I should like to congratulate all the design and engineering personnel who made this possible.”This great day was the 6th October 1954, at Boscombe Down, and was the start of an intensely interesting development programme—not without its setbacks and excitements—which was highlighted last March by the gaining of the World's Absolute Air Speed Record for Britain. The early flights followed the pattern of most prototype aircraft and, but for an unfortunate setback on the fourteenth flight, went very smoothly.

How a Bill became a Law in Zimbabwe: on the Problem of Transforming the Colonial State

Africa ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Seidman
Keyword(s):  
Arable Land ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Examination ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
The World ◽  
Average Size ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
White Farmers

Opening ParagraphOn 18 April 1980, a new black government took power in Zimbabwe. It confronted the widest gap in the world between the very poor and the very rich. Some 6000 white farmers owned farms with an average size of 6000 acres, comprising the best half of the arable land in the country. 800,000 African farmers scratched a living out of the sand and rocks that constituted the other half. Seventy-five per cent of the children of wage workers on the white farms suffered from malnutrition: their parents had a minimum monthly wage of $20 (Rhodesian). Eighty-five per cent of those children had never received a medical examination or visited a clinic. The dismal figures roll on and on.

scholarly journals Penerapan Kode Etik Jurnalistik Pada Pemberitaan Covid-19 di Okezone.com Periode Agustus 2020

Koneksi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Vania Halim ◽  
Riris Loisa
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Covid-19 was first known in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The virus that attacks the respiratory system began to enter Indonesia in early March 2020. This virus is a new phenomenon in the world and takes many lives and must be broadcast so that the public continues to know the condition. current, educated and receive the information received in full. The formulations of the problems to be achieved include 1) how the Okezone.com editorial team spreads the news referred to from the Journalistic Code of Ethics on Covid-19 news, 2) how the Okezone.com editorial publishes news according to the 5W + 1H news elements in covid-19 news. The purpose of the research carried out by the author is to explain how Okezone.com implements 5W + 1H in Covid-19 news which is applied from a journalistic code of ethics. The theory taken for the research is online journalism, online media, and mass communication. Based on the content analysis in this study, the authors conclude that the Okezone editorial team makes news according to facts from the place of the event or from the source, everyone has the same rights in the news, besides writing news there is no coercion and other people's interference, no opinion. journalist personal. The Okezone editorial team always ensures that the news to be disseminated must contain 5W + 1H news elements. The 5W + 1H elements are usually placed in the opening paragraph and body of the news.Covid-19 dikenal pertama kali di Wuhan, Tiongkok pada bulan Desember 2019. Virus yang menyerang sistem pernapasan ini mulai masuk ke Indonesia pada awal Maret 2020. Virus ini merupakan fenomena baru di dunia dan memakan banyak korban jiwa harus terus disiarkan agar masyarakat terus mengetahui kondisi terkini, teredukasi serta menerima informasi yang diterima secara utuh. Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini antara lain 1) bagaimana redaksi Okezone.com menyebarkan berita yang dirujuk dari Kode Etik Jurnalistik pada pemberitaan covid-19, 2) bagaimana redaksi Okezone.com mempublikasikan berita sesuai unsur berita 5W+1H dalam berita covid-19. Tujuan dari penelitian yang dikerjakan oleh penulis yaitu untuk menjelaskan cara Okezone.com menerapkan 5W+1H dalam berita Covid-19 yang diaplikasikan dari kode etik jurnalistik. Teori yang diambil untuk penelitian ialah jurnalistik online, media online, dan komunikasi massa. Penulis menggunakan pendekatan campuran dan metode analisis isi. Berdasarkan dari analisis isi dalam penelitian ini, penulis menyimpulkan bahwa redaksi Okezone membuat berita sesuai fakta yang dari tempat peristiwa atau dari narasumber, setiap orang memiliki hak yang sama dalam berita, selain itu penulisan berita tidak ada paksaan dan campur tangan orang lain, tidak ada opini pribadi jurnalis. Redaksi Okezone senantiasa memastikan bahwa berita yang akan disebarkan harus berisi unsur berita 5W+1H.

scholarly journals Intertextuality and the Construction of Meaning in Jazz Worlds: A Case Study of Joe Farrell’s “Moon Germs”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Kluth
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Jazz Improvisation ◽  
The World ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Ways Of Being

(Opening paragraph): In this article, I invoke the concept of intermusicality as defined by Ingrid Monson and develop its role in meaning-making in musical worlds. Her groundbreaking book, Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1996) offers a sophisticated criticism of jazz improvisation and the construction of meaning therein. In doing so, it explores methods by which to nuance and/or rupture traditional historiographies that construct the jazz canon. More than intermusicality, though, I look to a more general intertextuality as a hermeneutic window disruptive to the “great man” histories that have so often heretofore constructed the jazz tradition. I argue that the notion of intertextuality is particularly useful in mediating questions of essentialism in jazz (racial or otherwise) with considerations of practical competency and an artist’s particular situatedness in that body of texts. Working against positivist taxonomies resultant in definitions of what is/is not jazz, this perspective leaves space for the refiguring work of novelty and experimentation requisite therein. This resonates with Steven B. Elworth’s (1995) claim: “Far from being an unchanging and an easily understood historical field, the jazz tradition is a constantly transforming construction” (58). In my suspicion of linear ideas of history and “progress” (and therefore, telos), I prefer to interrogate and ratify instead the complicated relationship of novelty to tradition. The negotiation of these meta-categories is at the heart of the work improvising musicians do; combining disparate ways of being in the world with musical ideas and practices to create new musico-sociocultural wholes.

The world in creolisation

Africa ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Hannerz
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
The Third ◽  
Large Size ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Ways Of Life

Opening ParagraphFrom the time when I first became entangled with the Third World, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I have been fascinated by those contemporary ways of life and thought which keep growing out of the interplay between imported and indigenous cultures. They are the cultures on display in market places, shanty towns, beer halls, night clubs, missionary book stores, railway waiting rooms, boarding schools, newspapers and television stations. Nigeria, the country I have been most closely in touch with in an on-and-off way for some time, because of its large size, perhaps, offers particular scope for such cultural development, with several very large cities and hundreds if not thousands of small and middle-size towns. It has a lively if rather erratic press, a popular music scene dominated at different times by such genres as highlife, juju and Afro-beat, about as many universities as breweries (approximately one to every state in the federal republic), dozens of authors published at home and abroad, schoolhouses in just about every village, and an enormous fleet of interurban taxicabs which with great speed can convey you practically from anywhere to anywhere, at some risk to your life.

Jus Gentium and International Law

1918 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon E. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Paragraph

At the present moment, when the very existence of international law as a practical element in the conduct of human affairs is doubted or derided by many and when such precepts as are claimed to be fundamental in that law itself are daily set at nought by belligerents in the world conflict, it has been thought that a brief outline of the earliest conceptions characterizing international jurisprudence will prove neither, useless nor unwelcome.The term “International Law” has, in the usage of our day, quite superseded the earlier expression “law of nations,” long since adopted as a translation of the Latin phrase jus gentium. The expression “International Law,” however, so familiar to us, properly denotes a wholly variant conception. In modern days it is used by the celebrated D’Aguesseau and occurs in Volume II of his works, page 337 in the edition of 1773; it is shortly afterward employed by Bentham in his “Principles of Morals and Legislation” (XVII, 326, n. 1), and has since his time come into general use. D’Aguesseau’s expression (droit entre les gens) is doubtless, in its turn, an adaptation from Zouche, Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, who uses, about 1650, the term jus inter gentes in harmony with the thought of Grotius as expressed in the opening paragraph of the Prolegomena to his De Jure Belli Ac Pacis, where Grotius explains at the outset the intended subject of his great treatise, — at jus illud quod inter populos plures aut populorum rectores intercedit, sire ab ipsa natura profectum, aut divinis constitutum legibus, sine moribus et pacto tacito introductum, attigerunt pauci, universim ac certo ordine tractavit hactenus nemo; cum tamen id fieri intersit humani generis.

The Social Problems of Africa

Africa ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Thurnwald
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
European American ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Short Time

Opening ParagraphOf the 1.75 milliard people in the world to-day, about 550 million, that is roughly a third, belong to the white races. About 450 million of these live in Europe. Thus two-thirds of the whole of mankind are made up of members of the various other races, which are under the economic and cultural influence of different white nations, to a great extent even under their political influence as well. As a result of technical inventions and improvements distances are daily growing smaller, and the different sections of mankind are perceptibly being brought closer together. Moreover, through the wide-spread network of commerce our relationships with all the peoples outside the European-American zone of culture have become more numerous and intimate, leading to grave social and intellectual upheavals among the foreign nations. These occurrences and phenomena are the result of the enormous expansion caused by technical invention in Europe. It would be mistaken to regard them as having been deliberately and maliciously planned by the European nations, for technical progress manifested in inventions is a phenomenon less within the range of man's control than is generally imagined. These consequences of technical development have to be reckoned with, whether we will or no. As Mussolini said a short time ago in the course of a statement on the population question: ‘A statesman has to think at least fifty years ahead of his age.’

Some Problems Involved in the Development of Secondary Industries in West Africa

Africa ◽  
1943 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Stopford
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
African Society ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Small Scale Industries ◽  
Economic Considerations

Opening ParagraphIn recent years increasing attention has been given to the question of developing small-scale industries in the Colonial Dependencies. It is now generally agreed that such a development is essential in the interests of the territories themselves and for the ultimate benefit of Great Britain and, the world. So enthusiastic indeed has been the acceptance of this new policy that there is now a danger that adequate attention may not be given to the needs of the local communities themselves, the service of which is the main justification for the establishment of these industries. However important it may be for world prosperity that the purchasing power of the peoples of Africa should be raised, it is no less important that every scheme of industrialization should be related to the requirements of the peoples of Africa, and the organization of the industries must be in harmony with local traditions. If this is not done the new industries, whether they are built up on local traditional crafts or are completely ‘exotic’, may prove to be socially disruptive. Every development of this kind has social and political consequences which are as important as the economic results, and which may, indeed, override financial and economic considerations. An increase in the material prosperity of Africa would be paid for too highly if the price should prove to be the disintegration of African society.

scholarly journals Toward a Sexual Difference Theory of Creolization

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Max Hantel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Edouard Glissant ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Theoretical Domain ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Philosophical Importance

In lieu of an abstract, here is the opening paragraph from the essay:Throughout his work, Édouard Glissant rigorously describes the process of creolization in the Caribbean and beyond. His later work in particular considers creolization through the planetary terms of Relation, “exploded like a network inscribed within the sufficient totality of the world.” As his philosophical importance rightfully grows, many note the dual risk of overgeneralization and abstraction haunting continued expansion of his geographical and theoretical domain. In light of that danger, this essay examines how questions of the ontological nature of embodiment as raised by feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray ground, both implicitly and explicitly, processes of creolization. Narrowly speaking, such a reading of Glissant suggests the possibility of a richer understanding of creolization as a historically lived process and its emancipatory promise in the present. More generally, the linking of Glissant and Irigaray begins a larger project bringing together theorists of decolonization and sexual difference at the intersection of struggles against phallocentrism and racialization, perhaps nuancing some decolonial critiques of the value of Irigaray’s (and her interlocutor’s) thought. Thus, the investigation begins with a concrete question of historical interpretation that stages the embodiment of cultural contact

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