Socio-Political Organization and Receptivity to Change: Some Differences between Ruanda and Urundi

Albert, Ethel M.

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“…Colonial-era studies indicate that favourites were common in Rwanda and Burundi, and that these were usually men chosen from the ranks of noblemen's clients. 21 Not all abatoni were lovers; there is not, for example, any indication of an erotic relationship between Rwabugiri (r.1863-1895) and his umutoni Nzigaye. There is also little to no evidence that Rwabugiri had any male lovers.…”

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‘Tomorrow She Will Reign’: Intimate Power and the Making of a Queen Mother in Rwanda, c.1800–1863

Watkins¹

2017

Gender & History

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This article explores the relationship between erotic and institutional power through the political biography of the Queen‐Mother (Umugabekazi) Nyiramongi (r. 1845–1863) in Rwanda. Using historical narratives, genealogies, epic poetry and the translated text of royal rituals, this article argues that Nyiramongi used her status as first an object of desire and then as an erotic partner to her husband to manoeuver herself and her family into positions of institutional power. In contrast to previous literature, this article frames women like Nyiramongi as political actors who consciously cultivated their intimate assets to participate in the construction of systems of power, using their status as daughters, wives, lovers, mothers and sisters to exercise indirect power, often leading to positions of institutional and direct power.

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‘Tomorrow She Will Reign’: Intimate Power and the Making of a Queen Mother in Rwanda, c.1800–1863

Watkins¹

2017

Gender & History

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“…Implicated in US international power in the era of Cold War antagonism, it had a considerable practical orientation and its insights were deemed to be capable of steering developmental processes in non-Western societies (Gilman, 2004). These decolonising societies represented, for social scientists concerned with modernisation, ideal laboratories for testing the premises of their developmentalist schemas; the emergence of fledgling states was a new domain of intellectual conquest in an era marked by a heightened sense of possibility Cooper As such, one can observe throughout the 1950s and 1960s efforts among social scientists to delineate the nature of the traditional societies of Africa and their receptivity to change in specific reference to Burundi and Rwanda, see for example Albert, 1960;Maquet, 1961).…”

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S.N. Eisenstadt and African modernities: Dialogue, extension, retrieval

Palmer

2018

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article elucidates some connections and divergences between S.N. Eisenstadt’s work on multiple modernities and critical reflections on ‘African modernity’ presented by Africanist scholars. It argues that there is more cross-over between these discussions than is commonly thought when both are seen as parallel responses to the shortcomings of post-war modernization theory. Eisenstadt’s work can inform debates in African Studies concerning the effective power of tradition in postcolonial African societies, and on African interpretations of the ‘cultural programme’ of modernity. The article also discusses some weaknesses in Eisenstadt’s theorizing which arise from an extension of the multiple modernities framework to African societies, namely, an underappreciation of the various modalities of colonial imperialism and racialization, as well as the institutional constraints placed on postcolonial societal elites. It claims that these can be offset via a dialogue with the work of scholars in African Studies. Moreover, it is argued that the paradigm of multiple modernities can more satisfactorily shed light on African trajectories of modernity via the retrieval of tenets of Eisenstadt’s ‘heterodox’ modernization theory and work on post-traditionality, outlined in the 1960s and the 1970s, which include specific reflections on African societies.

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Historical Dictionary of Burundi

Dickerman¹,

Eggers²

1998

The International Journal of African Historical Studies

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 205.133.226.104 on Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:51:15 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 390 BOOK REVIEWS HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF BURUNDI. By Ellen K. Eggers. African Historical Dictionaries, No. 73. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1997. Pp. lxxvi, 199. $38.00. Scarecrow Press's African Historical Dictionary series lives on. Beginning with the Historical Dictionary of Cameroon by Victor LeVine and Roger Nye in 1974, the series now numbers some seventy-three volumes and shows no signs of ending. Many of the original volumes have been revised, and a few are now in their third editions. Ellen K. Eggers's Historical Dictionary of Burundi, the latest in the series, is a complete revision of the original Burundi volume, compiled by Warren Weinstein and published in 1976.Eggers's revision follows the same organization as the earlier volume, beginning with a fifty-page chronology of Burundi history, followed by the dictionary proper and concluding with a lengthy bibliography organized by subject. The chronology and dictionary entries focus on the twenty most recent years of Burundi history, with scant coverage of the precolonial and colonial periods. Events of the centuries and decades up to independence are outlined in the first six pages of the chronology, for example, with the remainder of the forty-seven pages detailing happenings between 1962 and 1 January 1996. The dictionary is similarly focused, with modern entries predominating. Eggers, a member of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was a lecturer at the University of Burundi in 1985-86, and her emphasis on current events highlights the years closest to the time she herself was in Burundi.It would be easy to find fault with many of the chronology and dictionary entries, which are sometimes inaccurate and often confusing. But perhaps the more important concern is to consider this volume as yet another entry in a series with the most dated, unimaginative approach possible to African history. Scarecrow has no doubt found it profitable to continue turning out these volumes, and I suspect that for many, if not most, of the libraries that purchase the African Historical Dictionaries series, the volumes constitute the only books in their collections that provide coverage of individual countries. Even in larger libraries, like the University of Michigan's, where one set of the volumes is part of the noncirculating reference collection, these may be the first sources students consult when beginning to research a historical topic. The volumes depict African history as a series of exact dates, unpronounceable names, and exotic terms, with little attempt to provide context or ...

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Socio-Political Organization and Receptivity to Change: Some Differences between Ruanda and Urundi

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‘Tomorrow She Will Reign’: Intimate Power and the Making of a Queen Mother in Rwanda, c.1800–1863

‘Tomorrow She Will Reign’: Intimate Power and the Making of a Queen Mother in Rwanda, c.1800–1863

S.N. Eisenstadt and African modernities: Dialogue, extension, retrieval

Historical Dictionary of Burundi

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