Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fatima Cristina Leister.pdf: 7649157 bytes, checksum: 36c1cf1ad0ee28bfee66d7927867aae7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-25 / In spite of the publication of Law 10.369 in 2003, which made the teaching of the history and culture of Africa and African Brazilians compulsory, there is still much to be done to reduce the defects in the national curriculum and offer better guidance for the study of the Africas and of Africans. There are still many avenues that need to be explored in order to fill the gaps that the colonial legacy has left. To this end, in order to broaden historical horizons and contribute to the historiographical debate already under way, the focus of the present work is directed at the area occupied by current Guinea-Bissau, especially during the period of the Imperial Colonial Portuguese Empire. This area has been almost totally neglected in Brazil, but the culture of Guinean people has been described in the annals of the Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa. This colonial periodical, published between 1946 and 1973 is now available online as the Projeto Memória de África e Oriente. Coordinated by the Fundação Portugal-Africa, the aim of this project is to collect, collate and digitalize documents at present scattered among the documentation centers of various Portuguese-speaking countries and make them available to researchers on the internet. The Boletim Cultural is a varied source made up of 110 editions published uninterruptedly three times a year. There are over 20,000 pages, whose main emphasis is on articles concerning ethnographics, which, although often seen from an undesirably European perspective, offer the opportunity to study these little-known cultures, which have been mostly handed down by oral tradition, and despite the cultural bias they display, these articles are nevertheless well worth reading. In fact, paradoxically, this alien perspective serves to highlight certain cultural features and the very characteristic language used in them expresses quite pointedly the colonial logic upon which political and scientific studies were based. In this way, this scientific knowledge, despite its subtexts, has enabled a dialog to take place with various actors who made their own history, despite this remaining restricted even until today, by others who sought to control it. Thus, despite being strongly influenced by scientific colonial attitudes, these studies published in the pages of Boletim Cultural, did allow the first approaches to be made to Guinea-Bissau and its constituent elements in the 20th century / Não obstante a promulgação da Lei 10.639, que desde 2003 tornou obrigatório o ensino de História, Cultura Africana e Afro-Brasileira, ainda há muito que avançar para minimizar deficiências curriculares nacionais e reorientar reflexões sobre as Áfricas e os africanos. Há, ainda, um vasto campo a ser explorado para preencher os vazios que a marca colonial legou. Nesse sentido, a fim de ampliar horizontes históricos e contribuir com debates historiográficos já formulados, o foco do presente trabalho dirige-se para a região da atual Guiné-Bissau, especialmente no período em que compunha o Império Colonial Português. Praticamente ausente da historiografia disponível no Brasil, as culturas de povos guineenses foram destacadas dos registros contidos no Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa. Esta revista colonial, publicada entre 1946 e 1973, encontra-se hoje disponibilizada através da página eletrônica do Projeto Memória de África e Oriente. Coordenado pela Fundação Portugal-África, este projeto tem como objetivos coletar, tratar, digitalizar documentos espalhados pelos centros de documentação de países lusófonos, disponibilizando-os aos pesquisadores através da internet. O Boletim Cultural é uma fonte variada composta por 110 edições publicadas quadrimestralmente de forma ininterrupta. São mais de 20 mil páginas, das quais foram priorizados os artigos de cunho etnográfico, os quais, embora permeados pelos filtros desqualificadores europeus, ofereceram a oportunidade de fazer contato com culturas pouco conhecidas, majoritariamente constituídas na tradição oral. A intermediação realizada pelos articulistas não inviabilizaram o processo. Ao contrário, através de seus estranhamentos, a diferença foi evidenciada e ganhou uma linguagem escrita publicada nas páginas da revista, que expressava, materialmente, a lógica colonial construída sob a interação entre política e ciência. Nessa medida, esse conhecimento científico proporcionou, apesar de intenções subjacentes, um canal de diálogo com vários atores que construíram histórias próprias, contudo encapsuladas, até hoje, por outras que lhes foram impostas. Assim, orientados pela política colonial científica , os trabalhos publicados nas páginas do Boletim Cultural permitiram as primeiras aproximações com a Guiné-Bissau e seus elementos constituintes de meados do século XX

Thesis (MPhil )--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the differences in the communication styles of siSwati and American English speakers. Specifically, it investigates the realization patterns of the speech acts of request and greeting in siSwati, by native and non-native speakers of siSwati. It also investigates how these same speech acts are realised by the non-native speakers of siSwati in their first language, English. The participants were 10 Swazis and 10 American Peace Corps volunteers living in Swaziland, Southern Africa at the time this study was conducted. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire followed up with a semi-structured interview. The data were analysed using the framework of the Cross-cultural Speech Act Realization Project as developed by Blum- Kulka (1989). Common trends were noted in the realization of the two speech acts by native speakers and non-native speakers and conclusions were made based on the similarities and differences observed. Overall, the results suggest (i) that there are marked differences in the way in which American English speakers and Swazi people perform and interpret greetings and requests, and (ii) that such differences emanate from the different cultural orientation of the two groups of people. Since such differences sometimes lead to misunderstandings, there is evident need to make people aware of cultural differences in order for understanding and tolerance to prevail in cross-cultural interactions. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die verskille in die kommunikasiestyle van sprekers van siSwati en Amerikaanse Engels. Dit beskou spesifiek die realiseringspatrone van die taalhandelinge versoek en groet in siSwati, deur moedertaal- en nie-moedertaalsprekers van siSwati, en in Engels. Die deelnemers was 10 Swazis en 10 Amerikaanse Vredekorps-vrywilligers woonagtig in Swaziland, Suid-Afrika, ten tye van die studie. Die data is ingesamel deur middel van 'n vraelys wat opgevolg is deur 'n semi-gestruktureerde onderhoud. Die data is geanaliseervolgens die raamwerk van die Kruiskulturele Spraakhandeling-realiseringsprojek, soos voorgestel deur Blum-Kulka (1989). Algemene tendense is opgemerk in die realisering van die twee spraakhandelinge deur moedertaalsprekers en nie-moedertaalsprekers en afleidings is gemaak op grond van die waargenome verskille en ooreenkomste. Oor die algemeen dui die resultate op (i) duidelike verskille tussen die wyses waarop sprekers van Amerikaanse Engels en Swazis versoeke en groethandelinge uitvoer en interpreteer, en (ii) die verskillende kulturele oriënterings van die twee groepe as oorsprong van hierdie tipe verskille. Aangesien laasgenoemde dikwels aanleiding gee tot misverstand, is dit duidelik noodsaaklik dat mense bewus gemaak word van kulturele verskille ten einde begrip en verdraagsaamheid te laat hoogty vier tydens kruiskulturele interaksie.

PhD (Political Science) / Department of Development Studies / No serious study into the contemporary politics of Zimbabwe can ignore the celebrated influence of nationalism and the attendant role of elite leaders as a ‘social force’ in the making of the nation-state of Zimbabwe. This study analyses the role played by nationalism as an instrument for political mobilisation against the white settler regime in Rhodesia by the Zimbabwe African People Union (ZAPU) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Therefore, of particular importance is the manner in which the evolution and comprehensive analysis of these former liberation movements, in the political history of Zimbabwe have been viewed through the dominant lenses of nationalism. Nationalism can be regarded as the best set of beliefs and the worst set of beliefs. Being an exhilarating force that led to the emergence of these nationalist movements to dismantle white minority rule, nationalism was also the same force that was responsible for dashing the dreams and hopes associated with an independent Zimbabwe. At the centre of this thesis is the argument that there is a fault line in the manner in which nationalism is understood as such it continued to be constructed and contested. In the study, nationalism has been propagated as contending political narratives, and the nationalist elite leaders are presented as a social force that sought to construct the nation-state of Zimbabwe. Thus, the study is particularly interested in a comparative analysis of the competing narratives of nationalism between ZAPU and ZANU between the period of 1977 and 1990. This period is a very important time frame in the turning points on the nationalist political history of Zimbabwe. Firstly, the beginning of this period saw the struggle for the liberation of Zimbabwe climax because of concerted efforts by both ZAPU and ZANU. Secondly, the conclusion of this period saw the death of ZAPU as an alternative to multi-party democracy within the nationalist sense and the subsequent emergence of a dominant socialist one-party state. Methodologically, a qualitative approach has been employed where the researcher analysed documents. / NRF