A decade after South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, HIV/AIDS has
superseded freedom struggles as the urgent matter of the day. With one of the highest …

The catastrophic HIV/AIDS pandemic has prompted social scientists and historians in recent
years to explore issues of sexuality and public health administration in South Africa. By …

Abstract Between 1984-1994, South Africa's political unrest led to the deaths of thousands of
Black South Africans. A striking feature of this development was that many of these deaths …

PRIOR TO THE 1980S, HISTORIANS OF AFRICA rarely paid explicit attention to sexuality, a
topic generally presumed to belong more appropriately to anthropology or psychology …

In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of
death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on …

In My Time of Dying Page 1 Page 2 In My Time of Dying Page 3 Page 4 In My Time of Dying a
history of death and the dead in west africa john parker prince ton university press prince ton & …

This article focuses on South Africa during the early 1990s, a crucial time of transition, when
fundamental political changes were imminent and different stakeholders among the former …

This book addresses two of the most important questions in modern African history: the
causes of rapid population growth, and the origins of the AIDS pandemic. It examines three …

the meanings assigned to the transition from life to death. African and Afrikaner nationalisms
created registers of good and bad deaths as markers of their national characters and …

Ethnographic research on death, funerary ceremonies and the ancestors has often
overlooked social conflict and hidden expressions of cultural change, thereby contributing to …