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Die Landfrage_The Question of Land: Why Land is so important to Kenyans_engl/deutsch
In African society, land has always been a constant feature. Land ownership in pre-colonial Africa, equated to wealth, identity and a source of livelihood. An African owned a piece of land and together with his family, was identified with that piece of land. Land also served the purpose of growing food that would feed your family hence the reason why planting and harvest seasons in many African societies are revered. So are market days where you could sell your produce in exchange for other produce. And finally, owning land ultimately meant that your male children were assured of an inheritance.
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An Uncomfortable Truth: Howard W. French: Born in Blackness – Afrika und die Entstehung der modernen Welt_deutsch_englisch
Africa and the Making of the Modern World, now published in German by Klett-Cotta, is to be seen as an important contribution in the reinterpretation of historical facts and contexts. The striking thing is not only the many facts that French presents. It becomes clear relatively early in the reading that it is above all the concealment or negation of facts and contexts that have made possible a revelation of one of the darkest chapters of Western history. A central thesis of the book is that Africa with its resources of gold and forced laborers, over twelve million slaves and the market for textiles, made an unheard-of rise of the European seafaring nations such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands,…
