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By Jan Hogendorn, Marion Johnson

ISBN-10: 0511563043

ISBN-13: 9780511563041

ISBN-10: 0521320860

ISBN-13: 9780521320863

ISBN-10: 0521541107

ISBN-13: 9780521541107

This examine examines the function of cowrie-shell cash in West African exchange, fairly the slave exchange. The shells have been carried from the Maldives to the Mediterranean by way of Arab investors for additional shipping around the Sahara, and to Europe through competing Portuguese, Dutch, English and French investors for onward shipping to the West African coast. In Africa they served to buy the slaves exported to the recent global, in addition to different much less sinister exports. Over a wide a part of West Africa they turned the typical marketplace forex, yet have been significantly devalued through the importation of hundreds of thousands of a whole bunch the more cost-effective Zanzibar cowries. Colonial governments disliked cowries as a result of inflation and inspired their alternative by way of low-value cash. They disappeared virtually absolutely, to re-appear in the course of the melancholy of the Nineteen Thirties, and feature been discovered sometimes within the markets of distant frontier districts, fending off alternate and foreign money keep watch over difficulties.

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This was a direct challenge to the right of the new generation to add to their households by raiding for cattle. It was treated with scorn. At this precise juncture, Broadbent made his first attempts to preach in the local language.

C. Willoughby, Soul of the Bantu:€A Sympathetic Study of the Magico-Religious Practices and Beliefs of the Bantu Tribes of Africa (New York:€Doubleday, 1928); W. C. , and Tom Brown, Among the Bantu Nomads (London:€ London Missionary Society, 1926). 42 43 18 Popular Politics in the History of South Africa Underneath the trodden manure and earth of the court lay the chief’s ancestors, buried directly beneath his prized cattle. When the naturalist and spy Andrew Smith tried to learn about the names of the “tribes,” the conversation turned at once to mortuary rights for this reason:€the names he asked about were in fact dead chiefs, buried under his feet.

Broadbent offered what must have seemed at the time like a good reply, and said that he knew coffee wouldn’t agree with the chief’s stomach€– Heaven knew Broadbent was an expert on that topic. Leaving their company, Sefunelo turned around at the door:€Why would the missionaries drink something that upset other people’s stomachs? There was no answer to this. The missionaries’ separation from the world of production and consumption was profound and unbridgeable. After this, Sefunelo stopped visiting them.

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