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BookKwaks, Juul (2022)
See this publicationLiving with the legacy of displacement
Abstract presentLeiden: African Studies Centre. African Studies Collection #79. 246p.

Periodical articleLempereur, Samuel (2020)
See this publicationA Path from Slavery to Freedom: The Case of the Ologoudou Family in Southern Benin
African Economic History. Volume 48 #1. p. 20-45.

BookWalraven, Klaas van (ed.) (2020)
The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies
Abstract presentLeiden: Brill. African Dynamics #17. 298p.

Periodical articleBank, Andrew (2019)
See this publication'Bridging the gap between the intellectual and the human': The awkward biography of anthropologist and scholar-activist Iona Simon Mayer (1923-)
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 267-289.

Periodical articleDee, Henry (2019)
See this publication'I am a bad native': Masculinity and marriage in the biographies of Clements Kadalie
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 183-204.

Periodical articleHealy-Clancy, Meghan (2019)
See this publicationWriting from Johannesburg: Nadine Gordimer in the global anti-apartheid movement
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 246-266.

Periodical articleJacobs, Nancy J.; Bank, Andrew (2019)
See this publicationBiography in post-apartheid South Africa: A call for awkwardness
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 165-182.

Periodical articleJacobs, Nancy J. (2019)
See this publicationThe awkward biography of the young Washington Okumu: CIA asset (?) and the Prayer Breakfast's man in Africa
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 225-245.

Periodical articleLandau, Paul S. (2019)
See this publicationGendered silences in Nelson Mandela's and Ruth First's struggle auto/biographies
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 290-306.

Periodical articleShutt, Allison K. (2019)
See this publicationWriting Jasper Savanhu's biography from his awkward self-narratives
African Studies. Volume 78 #2. p. 205-224.

Periodical articleAhearne, Robert M. (2016)
See this publicationDevelopment and progress as historical phenomena in Tanzania: 'Maendeleo? We had that in the past'
Abstract presentAfrican Studies Review. Volume 59 #1. p. 77-96.

BookCaplan, Patricia (2016)
Mikidadi: individual biography and national history in Tanzania
Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 191p.

BookCawood, Stephanie (2016)
See this publicationTowards an itinerary of ideas: intertextual mapping in the rhetoric of Nelson Mandela
Abstract presentLeiden: African Studies Centre. ASC working paper #134. 54p.

Periodical articleDu Pisani, Kobus (2016)
See this publicationThe Smuts biographies: analysis and historiographical assessment
Abstract presentSouth African Historical Journal. Volume 68 #3. p. 437-463.

Periodical articleJavangwe, Tasiyana Dzikai (2016)
See this publicationMythicized selves: constructions of political self-identities in Joshua Nkomo's 'The story of my life' (1984) and Edgar Zivanai Tekere's 'A lifetime of struggle' (2007)
Abstract presentAfrican Identities. Volume 14 #1. p. 74-84.

Periodical articleLindner, Ulrike (2016)
See this publicationTranscending Gender Roles, Crossing Racial and Political Boundaries: Agnes Hill's Fight for her Inheritance in German Southwest Africa
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Volume 44 #5. p. 777-797.

Periodical articleLudlow, Helen (2016)
Using life stories to teach about resistance to apartheid
Yesterday & today. #15. p. 21-36.

Periodical articleMusanga, Terrence; Manase, Irikidzayi (2016)
See this publicationHistory, migration and identity in contemporary Zimbabwean biography as reflected in Peter Orner and Annie Holmes' (2010) 'Hope deferred: narratives of Zimbabwean lives'
Abstract presentAfrican Identities. Volume 14 #3. p. 273-287.

BookNdlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi; Strydom, Miranda (eds.) (2016)
The Thabo Mbeki I know
Johannesburg: Picador Africa.

Periodical articleFardon, Richard (2015)
See this publicationDo you hear me? It is me, Akiga: 'Akiga's story' and Akiga Sai's 'History'
Abstract presentAfrica: Journal of the International African Institute. Volume 85 #4. p. 572-598.

Periodical articleHadfield, Leslie Anne (2015)
See this publicationCan we believe the stories about Biko? Oral sources, meaning, and emotion in South African struggle history
Abstract presentHistory in Africa. Volume 42. p. 239-263.

Periodical articleKindersley, Nicki (2015)
See this publicationSouthern Sudanese narratives of displacement, and the ambiguity of 'voice'
Abstract presentHistory in Africa. Volume 42. p. 203-237.

BookKöhler-Weisker, Angela (2015)
Gespräche unter dem Mopanebaum: ethnopsychoanalytische Begegnungen mit Himbanomaden
Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. Bibliothek der Psychoanalyse. 599p.

Periodical articleKühne-Thies, Rahel (2015)
See this publicationAfrican identity? Mother and daughter between the currents in colonial West Africa
Abstract presentStichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Volume 15 #29. p. 49-67.

Periodical articleSiméus, Jenny (2015)
See this publicationCollaboratively writing a self: textual strategies in Margaret McCord's 'The calling of Katie Makanya: a memoir of South Africa'
Abstract presentResearch in African Literatures. Volume 46 #2. p. 70-84.

Periodical issueAmin, Nyna; Govinden, Betty (eds.) (2014)
See this publicationAutobiographies, biographies & writing lives
Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. Volume 28 #1. 124p.

Periodical articleChapman, Michael (2014)
See this publicationNelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013): a tribute to his contribution to literature
Abstract presentCurrent Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. Volume 26 #1. p. 3-11.

Periodical articleCoates, Oliver (2014)
The particular and the work of retrospection in Isaac Fadoyebo's 'A stroke of unbelieveable luck'
Abstract presentAfrican Research and Documentation. #125. p. 45-63.

Periodical articleDavis, Steve (2014)
See this publicationStruggle history and self-help: the parallel lives of Nelson Mandela in conventional and figurative biography
Abstract presentAfrican Studies. Volume 73 #2. p. 169-191.

Periodical articleEverett Couper, Scott (2014)
South Africa's historiographic conflation: comparing and contrasting the memories of King and Malcolm X with Luthuli and Mandela
Abstract presentHistoria: amptelike orgaan. Volume 59 #2. p. 289-308.

Conference paperFiquet, Éloi; Smidt, Wolbert (eds.) (2014)
The life and times of Lïj Iyasu of Ethiopia: new insights
Abstract presentZürich: Lit Verlag. Northeast African history, orality and heritage. 209p.

Periodical articleMaitilasso, Annalisa (2014)
'Raconte-moi ta migration': l'entretien biographique entre construction ethnographique et autonomie d'un nouveau genre littéraire
Abstract presentCahiers d'études africaines. Volume 54 #213-214. p. 241-265.

Periodical articleMazauric, Catherine (2014)
Livres de passages: trajectoires migrantes vers et depuis Dakar
Abstract presentCahiers d'études africaines. Volume 54 #213-214. p. 267-287.

Periodical articleNite, Dhiraj Kumar (2014)
See this publicationSharing life-history and other memory: the mining persons in South Africa, 1951-2011
Abstract presentSouth African Historical Journal. Volume 66 #1. p. 122-141.

Periodical articleBank, Leslie J.; Bank, Andrew (2013)
See this publicationUntangling the lion's tale: the violent masculinity and the ethics of biography in the 'curious' case of the apartheid-era policeman Donald Card
Abstract presentJournal of Southern African Studies. Volume 39 #1. p. 7-30.

Dissertation / thesisEppel, Ruth (2013)
See this publicationThe limitations and possibilities of identity and form in selected recent memoirs and novels by white female Zimbabwean writers: Alexandra Fuller, Lauren Liebenberg, Bryony Rheam and Lauren St. John
120p.

Dissertation / thesisMaedza, Pedzisai (2013)
See this publicationTheatre of testimony: an investigation in devising asylum
Cape Town: University of Cape Town. 147p.

Periodical articleNwahunanya, Chinyere (2013)
See this publicationThe festschrift tradition in African literature: its implications for the future of African literary criticism
Tydskrif vir letterkunde. Volume 50 #1. p. 112-125.

Periodical articlePetit, Pierre (2013)
Luc de Heusch et l'ethnographie tetela (1952-1954)
Abstract presentJournal des africanistes. Volume 83 #2. p. 6-21.

Periodical articleWeintroub, Jill (2013)
See this publicationOn biography and archive: Dorothea Bleek and the making of the Bleek collection
Abstract presentSouth African Historical Journal. Volume 65 #1. p. 70-89.

Periodical articleDhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma (2012)
See this publicationCultural crossings from Africa to India: select travel narratives of Indian South Africans from Durban and Cape Town, 1940s to 1990s
Abstract presentSouth African Historical Journal. Volume 64 #2. p. 295-312.

BookHeinicke, Julius; Veit-Wild, Flora (eds.) (2012)
Kuvaka ukama: building bridges: a tribute to Flora Veit-Wild
Abstract presentHeidelberg: Weiss, Kalliope Paperbacks. 377p.

BookPowell, Eve Troutt (2012)
Tell this in my memory: stories of enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 246p.

BookSandgren, David P. (2012)
Mau Mau's children: the making of Kenya's postcolonial elite
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Africa and the diaspora, History, politics, culture. 185p.

Periodical articleSchwarz, Suzanne (2012)
See this publicationReconstructing the life histories of liberated Africans: Sierra Leone in the early nineteenth century
Abstract presentHistory in Africa. Volume 39. p. 175-207.

Dissertation / thesisSimakole, Brutus Mulilo (2012)
See this publicationPolitical auto/biography, nationalist history and national heritage: the case of Kenneth Kaunda and Zambia
University of the Western Cape. 139p.

Periodical articlevon Oppen, Achim; Strickrodt, Silke (2012)
See this publicationPart special issue: religious biography
Abstract presentJournal of Southern African Studies. Volume 38 #3. p. 429-490.

Periodical articleVanthemsche, Guy (2011)
Van de 'Belgische koloniale biografie' naar het 'Biografisch woordenboek van Belgen overzee'
Bulletin des séances = Mededelingen der zittingen. Volume 57 #2-4. p. 215-235.

Periodical articleAnonymous (2010)
Justice Saeed Rahman Cockar, 1926-2008
Awaaz (Nairobi, Kenya). Volume 7 #2. p. 33-38.

Periodical articleAnonymous (2010)
Salim Yakub, an accomplished journey
Awaaz (Nairobi, Kenya). Volume 7 #1. p. 52-58.

BookGlassie, Henry (2010)
Prince Twins Seven-Seven: his art, his life in Nigeria, his exile in America
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 474p.

Periodical articleLaw, Robin (2010)
See this publicationMadiki Lemon, the 'English Captain' at Ouidah, 1843-1852: an exploration in biography
Abstract presentHistory in Africa. Volume 37. p. 107-123.

Periodical articleMartin-Granel, Nicolas (2010)
'Abracadabrazza' ou le roman du Mémorial Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Abstract presentCahiers d'études africaines. Volume 50 #197. p. 293-307.

BookSeal, Mark (2010)
Wildflower: an extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 232p.

Periodical articleWild-Wood, Emma (2010)
See this publicationThe making of an African missionary hero in the English biographies of Apolo Kivebulaya (1923-1936)
Abstract presentJournal of Religion in Africa. Volume 40 #3. p. 273-306.

BookDieng, Samba (2009)
Sur les traces d'El-Hadj Omar: regards croisés sur l'homme et l'oeuvre
Dakar: Nouvelles Éditions africaines du Sénégal (NEAS). Essais monde d'hier, monde de demain. 220p.

Periodical articleLemmer, E.M. (2009)
See this publicationEmpowerment of women students through educational achievement: a narrative enquiry
Abstract presentAfrica Education Review. Volume 6 #1. p. 80-95.

Periodical articleWillemse, Karin; Morgan, Ruth; Meletse, John (2009)
See this publicationDeaf, gay, HIV positive, and proud: narrating an alternative identity in post-apartheid South Africa
Abstract presentCanadian Journal of African Studies. Volume 43 #1. p. 83-104.

BookBouyerdene, Ahmed (2008)
Abd El-Kader: l'harmonie des contraires
Paris: Éditions du Seuil. 348p.

Periodical articleBurrett, Rob S. (2008)
Karl Gottlieb Mauch (1837-1875)
Abstract presentHeritage of Zimbabwe. #27. p. 74-88.

Periodical articleLentz, Carola (2008)
Hard work, determination, and luck: biographical narratives of a northern Ghanaian elite
Abstract presentGhana Studies. Volume 11. p. 47-76.

Periodical articleMasole, N.; Keobaletswe, T. (2008)
Born independent: self made champion of the corporate world
Kutlwano. #Special issue Independence. p. 7-9.

Periodical articleMcCarthy, J.D. (2008)
Major Patrick Forbes (1861 to 1922)
Abstract presentHeritage of Zimbabwe. #27. p. 38-60.

BookMullen, Bernie (2008)
The Bow End of Rain
Ely: Melrose Books. 394p.

Periodical articlePilane, M. (2008)
Pioneer of community services in Serowe
Kutlwano. #Special issue Independence. p. 28-31.

Periodical articleRassool, Ciraj (2008)
See this publicationWriting, authorship and I.B. Tabata's biography: from collective leadership to presidentialism
Abstract presentKronos: Journal of Cape History. #34. p. 181-214.

Periodical articleRugarli, Anna Maria (2008)
Historical relevance? Ten sketches of women illegally enslaved at the Cape, 1823 to 1830
Abstract presentNew contree: a journal of historical and human sciences for Southern Africa. #55. p. 43-65.

Periodical articleAdjah, Olive Akpebu (2007)
Ghanaian funeral brochures: an unexplored rich source of biographical information
Abstract presentAfrican Research and Documentation. #103. p. 33-44.

Periodical articleBolaane, Maitseo (2007)
Women writing Botswana: a project of cultural recovery
JALA: the Journal of the African Literature Association. Volume 1 #2. p. 86-96.

Periodical articleDhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma (2007)
Writing the Life of Manilal Mohandas Gandhi
Abstract presentJournal of Natal and Zulu History. Volume 24-25. p. 188-213.

Periodical articleFerdinando, K. (2007)
The legacy of Byang Kato
Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology. Volume 26 #1. p. 3-15.

Periodical articleHoenig, Karen Haire (2007)
See this publicationIdentity Imaged in History and Story: Re/Constructing the Life of Abd-al-Karim, Founder/Renewer of Islam in Wadai, Chad
African Identities. Volume 5 #3. December. p. 313-330.

BookIngelaere, Bert (2007)
Living the transition: a bottom-up perspective on Rwanda's political transition
Antwerpen: Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB). Discussion paper 2007 #6. 57p.

Periodical articleKakuru, Doris M.; Paradza, Gaynor G. (2007)
See this publicationReflections on the Use of the Life History Method in Researching Rural African Women: Field Experiences from Uganda and Zimbabwe
Gender and Development. Volume 15 #2. July. p. 287-297.

Periodical articleVan Niekerk, Jacomien (2007)
See this publicationBiografie in die pryslied: die bydrae van Antjie Krog naas twee Xhosa-pryssangers
Abstract presentTydskrif vir letterkunde. Volume 44 #2. p. 29-45.

Periodical articleAnonymous (2006)
Les professeurs ordinaires de l'Université Lubumbashi
Likundoli. Archives et documents. Volume 20 #1-2. p. 5-293.

Periodical articleAnonymous (2006)
Wilson Ogot: the distinguished accountant
Accountant (Nairobi, Kenya). September-October. p. 27-28.

Periodical articleAylward, L. (2006)
Wangari Maathai
Finance (Nairobi, Kenya). April-May. p. 8-9.

BookBalfour Paul, Glen (2006)
Bagpipes in Babylon: a lifetime in the Arab world and beyond
London: I.B. Tauris. 329p.

Periodical articleBoy, G. (2006)
Flying colours: Richard Douglas Onslow (1928-2005)
Swara. Volume 29 #1. January-March. p. 56-57.

Periodical articleDibwe dia Mwembu, D. (2006)
Cadres sociaux et politiques de la mémoire: les réincarnations du Chef Kamanda ya kaumbu
Likundoli. Série A, Mémoire et enquêtes d'histoire congolaise. Volume 10 #1-2. p. 110-123.

Periodical articleDoortmont, Michel (2006)
See this publicationProducing a Received View of Gold Coast Elite Society? C.F. Hutchison's Pen Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities
Abstract presentHistory in Africa. Volume 33. p. 473-493.

BookGallissot, René (2006)
Algérie: engagements sociaux et question nationale: de la colonisation à l'indépendance de 1830 à 1962
Abstract presentIvry-sur-Seine: Les Éditions de l'Atelier. Collection Jean Maitron. 605p.

Periodical articleGammon, Russell (2006)
David Livingstone
Abstract presentHeritage of Zimbabwe. #25. p. 139-146.

Periodical articleHawken, T. (2006)
See this publicationThe artist, Helen MacLaren
The Society of Malawi Journal. Volume 59 #2. p. 35-39.

Periodical articleHill, R.A. (2006)
See this publicationCompany Sergeant Major Katapoli, MSM, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland
The Society of Malawi Journal. Volume 59 #1. p. 44-48.

Periodical articleJeurissen, Lissia (2006)
See this publicationHistoire coloniale et nomadisme heuristique: du 'Congo de Papa' au 'Bled'
Civilisations. Volume 54 #1-2. p. 33-43.

Periodical articleKiangu S. (2006)
Pierre Mulele: martyr ou traître? les langages de la mémoire
Likundoli. Série A, Mémoire et enquêtes d'histoire congolaise. Volume 10 #1-2. p. 124-143.

Periodical articleMackenzie, Rob (2006)
David Livingstone: exploring the many myths and truths behind the doctor
Abstract presentHeritage of Zimbabwe. #25. p. 119-129.

Periodical articleMotlatshiping, M. (2006)
Up close with Lame of Makgabaneng
Kutlwano. Volume 47 #6. June. p. 6-7.

Periodical articleMouton, F.A. (2006)
See this publication'The Burden of Empathy': John X. Merriman, F.S. Malan and Phyllis Lewsen's Quest for Biographical Authenticity
Abstract presentSouth African Historical Journal. #55. p. 125-141.

Periodical articleNdyani, C. (2006)
So into Q
WASI: [bulletin]. Volume 16 #2. April. p. 10-11.

Periodical articleNgandu Mutombo, M. (2006)
De l'inconnu au héros, le cas de Buffalo, un élélment de la Jeuness de l'Union des Federaliste et de Républicains Indépendants (JUFERI) au Katanga des années 1990
Likundoli. Série A, Mémoire et enquêtes d'histoire congolaise. Volume 10 #1-2. p. 144-157.

Periodical articleNiehaus, Isak (2006)
See this publicationBiographical Lessons: Life Stories, Sex, and Culture in Bushbuckridge, South Africa
Abstract presentCahiers d'études africaines. Volume 46 #181. p. 51-73.

Periodical articleParker.I. (2006)
Formidable: Rodney Thomas Elliot (1921-2005)
Swara. Volume 29 #1. January-March. p. 54-56.

Periodical articleRita-Ferreira, A. (2006)
See this publicationAn appreciation of David Macpherson
The Society of Malawi Journal. Volume 59 #1. p. 50-54.

Periodical articleTall, Hadja (2006)
Al-Hajj Umar Tall: the biography of a controversial leader
Ufahamu. Volume 32 #1-2. p. 73-90.

Periodical articleTanser, T.F.M. (2006)
Robert Moffat, master missionary: his life and times
Abstract presentHeritage of Zimbabwe. #25. p. 99-118.

Periodical articleVogt, A. (2006)
An officer, a scholar and a gentleman: notes on the military career of Judge Clemens Gutsche (1876-1947)
Journal - Namibia Scientific Society. Volume 54. p. 87-113.

BookAlidou, Ousseina (2005)
Engaging modernity: Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial Niger
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Women in Africa and the diaspora. 235p.

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