Index
Accra 117
,
120
,
122
,
132 –134 136
African National Congress (anc – South Africa) 42
,
170
African religion 247
,
252 –255 261
Afrikaner nationalism 53
,
60
Afrikaners 57
,
59
Agency 13
,
14
,
21
,
37
,
92
,
95
,
109
,
144
Albertville (Kalemie, Congo-Kinshasa) 278 –281
Alltagsgeschichte (also see daily life [history], la quotidienne) 3
,
33
Annales (School) 1
,
2
,
4
,
5
,
13
,
33
,
34
Antiquity (and biography) 3
,
5
,
28
,
37
Apartheid 26
,
31
,
33
,
40
,
53
,
56 –60 63
,
65
,
66
,
70 –72 76n
,
80
,
81n
,
82
,
85
apartheid atrocities 61
,
62
,
70
,
71
Asante 28
,
30
,
122
,
130
,
133
Autobiographies/y/autobiographical (account, writing) 5 –10 16
,
19
,
20
,
20n
,
32
,
35
,
39
,
39n
,
42
,
43
,
148
,
150
,
171n
,
172n
,
277
autobiographical self-positioning 206
Baba of Karo (Mary Smith) 24
Balubakat (political group Congo-Kinshasa) 278 (+n)
,
279 (+n)
,
280
,
281n
,
291
Bamenda (Grassfields, Cameroon) 149
,
152
,
153
,
156
,
157
,
161
Banda (ethnic group & region Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 257
,
258
,
260n
,
268
,
269
Bangui 252n
,
259
,
260
,
263
,
266n
,
267
,
271
Basel 124
,
128
,
129
Basel mission(aries/y) 120
,
123
,
124
,
127
,
129
,
131
,
132 (+n)
,
133
,
135
,
138
,
139
,
141
,
143
,
157
Behaviourism/t 6
,
21
Berberati (town, Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 262
,
271
Bernault, Florence 22
,
118
Bétou (town, Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 248
Biographical fallacy 12
Biographical turn 1
,
32
Blyden, Edward W. 143n
Body (human) 21
,
22
,
65
,
118
,
254 –257
Boswell, James 6
Bourdieu, Pierre 16
,
17
,
20
,
38
,
44
Braudel, Fernand 2
,
13
Brazzaville 252n
,
263 (+n)
,
280
Büttner, Richard 117
,
121
,
123n
,
130
,
131
,
136 –138(+n) 139
,
140
Calabar 120
,
131
,
140
Cannibalism 209
,
257n
,
264
(Cape) Malay 225
,
233
Cape Muslim 226
,
234n
,
235
Cape Provincial Council(lor) 219
,
236
Carnegie Commission 175
Catechism (Catholic, Protestant) 155 (+n)
,
166
,
253
Catholic(ism) 43
,
99
,
126
,
154 –159 165
,
167
,
168
,
227
,
235
,
246
,
247
,
257
,
269
,
270
,
272
Celibacy 247
,
270
Charismatic leadership 265
,
266
Che Guevara 282
,
283
Chilembwe, John 25
,
26
Chrischona, St (Pilgrim Mission, Switzerland) 124
,
126 –131
Christianity 19
,
21
,
43
,
108
,
120
,
130
,
131
,
142
,
143 (+n)
,
154
,
156
,
167
,
200 (+n)
,
201
,
206
,
214
,
215
,
217
,
229
,
231
,
233
,
234
,
253 –255 261
,
267
,
271
Church Missionary Society 127
,
198n
Cliometrics 2
,
33
Clothing 100
,
103
,
104
,
135
,
155
,
165 (+n)
Colonialism 3
,
29
,
119
,
131
,
247
,
268
,
271
Colour bar 82
,
185
,
189 –191 235
Coloured (people) 33
,
43
,
70 –76 78 (+n)
,
81
,
82
,
84
,
85
,
220 (+n)
,
227 –229 (+n) 230
,
235
,
240
,
242 (+n)
Communism/t 177
,
181
,
184
,
186
,
188
,
191
,
277
,
292
communist party of South Africa (cpsa) 173
,
177
,
188 –190
Congo Free State 139
Congregationalists (American, active in South Africa) 226
,
227
,
230
Consumption 34
,
41
,
102 –105 198n
,
256
,
257
Conversion 19
,
21
,
42
,
43
,
200 –202 205 –210 213n
,
214 –217 255
Convert(s) 5
,
135
,
143
,
155
,
156
,
158
,
164 –166 201n
,
206 (+n)
,
249
Copperbelt 91
,
99
,
100
,
103
,
107
,
108
,
173
,
178 –183 185
,
186
,
188 –191
Cosmologies/y 42
,
44
,
246 –248 250
,
252 –256 261
,
270 –272
Cultural turn (in social sciences) 15n
,
39
Daily life (history) (also see Alltagsgeschichte, la quotidienne) 3
,
9
,
34
,
74
,
92
,
95
,
97
,
110
,
129
,
154
,
212
Dar es Salaam 198
,
199
,
282
,
285 (+n)
,
288
Decolonisation 25
,
252
,
261
De Gaulle, Charles 271
De Klerk, F.W. 57
,
66
De Kock, Eugene 40
,
61 –66
De la Rey, Koos 58
Democratic Republic of Congo 44
,
275
Desert Rats (British North Africa regiment) 187
Determinism/t 2
,
6
,
15
,
21
,
27
,
32
,
103
De Wet, Christiaan 58
Dlamini, Jacob 54
,
60
,
62
,
63
,
65
Du Preez, Max 62
Dutch Reformed Church (South Africa) 43
,
53
,
226 –228 229n
,
230
Education 39
,
41
,
53
,
84
,
99
,
118
,
119
,
122
,
124
,
126
,
127
,
129
,
130
,
165
,
168
,
220
,
223 –228 230 –235 239
,
240 (+n)
,
241
,
248
,
251
,
252
,
266
,
278
,
290
Effendi, Abu Bakr 223 –225 (+n) 226
,
229
,
234
,
236
Eichmann, Adolf 61
Elmina 120 –123 130
,
131
Eminent Victorians (L. Strachey) 3
,
7
Exemplars (of character types) 5
,
6
,
37
Fayida (freed slave girl, missionary convert) 202
,
204
,
205
,
210
,
212 –214 (+n)
Feminism/t (also see women’s history) 24
,
26
,
31
Fernando Po 148n
,
153 (+n)
,
154
,
158
First World War/World War i 6
,
42
,
148n
,
152
,
153n
,
168
Fischer, Bram 58 –60
Fon Ngam (Cameroon) 152
,
153
,
157
,
158
,
161
,
164
,
167
,
168
Fon Yuh (Cameroon) 151
,
152
,
168
Forced removals (apartheid South Africa) 70
Foxley, Alice (missionary teacher) 203
,
204
,
213
,
214 (+n)
Franschhoek Literary Festival 64 –66
Free will (of human beings) 14
,
21
,
159
French Enlightenment (and biography) 6
Front de Libération Nationale Congolaise/flnc (‘Katangese Tigres’) 285
,
288
,
289
,
294
Fulmai, William (Christian in Kom, Cameroon) 162
Gender 55
,
72
,
168
,
213n
,
231n
Gbenye, Christophe 280
Ghandi, Mahatma 56
Ginzburg, Carlo 34
,
37
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla 62 –64
Grimari region (Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 257
,
258
Group Areas Act (South Africa) 75
,
82
,
84
Habitus (Bourdieu) 20
,
44
Hagiographic/ies/y 5
,
6
,
37
Heroe(s) (as biographical concept) 3
,
7
,
21
,
26
,
37
,
57
,
58
,
60
Herz Jesu missionaries (Germany) 153
Histoire nouvelle 2
,
33
Hobsbawm, Eric 3
,
11
,
97
Hofmeyr, Steve 54
Holy Ghost Fathers (see Spiritans)
Huguenots (South Africa) 220
,
226
,
230n
Hugenot seminary/missionary Sunday school 227
,
228
Illusion (of ‘life’ notion) 8
,
19
Ilunga, (Prosper) Mwamba 278
,
280
Imperialism 41
,
117
Independence 19
,
25
,
26
,
168
,
246
,
252
,
271
,
275
,
276
,
278
,
294
Independent African (Shepperon & Price) 25
Indirect Rule 156
Internment camps 153
,
154
Jansen, Anemari 63 (+n)
,
64 –66
Johannesburg 58
,
103
,
176
,
182
,
186
,
188
,
189
,
191
Jourdain, Michèle 266
Kabila, Joseph 275
,
285 (+n)
,
286n
Kagame, Paul 288
Kalabe, Alphonse 286
,
287
Karnou (rebel leader Oubangui-Chari) 261
,
262
Kasa Vubu, President (Congo-Kinshasa) 280
Katanga (Shaba) 278 –281 285 –287 291
,
294
Kibamba (rebel base Congo-Kinshasa) 282
,
283
Kichelwe (mission post near Dar-es-Salaam) 198
,
216
Kilimani (mission post Zanzibar) 212
Kinshasa 138
,
139
,
279
,
280n
,
286 (+n)
,
289
,
290n
Kiungani (mission school Zanzibar) 198n
,
205
,
207n
,
208
,
212
Kivu, South (Congo-Kinshasa) 275
,
281
,
282
,
284
,
286
Koevoet (military unit – South Africa) 65
Kom (precolonial kingdom – Cameroon) 42
,
148
,
149
,
152
,
153
,
155 –159 161
,
162
,
164
,
166 –168
Krog, Antjie 62
Kruger, Paul 58
Kwango River (Congo-Kinshasa) 138
Kwifoyn (secret society, Kom, Cameroon) 149
,
151
,
152n
,
155
,
158
,
163
,
164
Labour(er) 41
,
55
,
99
,
107
,
122
,
127
,
129
,
139
,
153
,
157
,
162
,
163
,
166
,
175
,
176
,
178
,
185
,
212
,
290n
labour migrant, labour migration 91
,
92
,
98 –110
labour movement (also see trade unions) 172
,
186
,
188
,
190
La quotidienne (also see Alltagsgeschichte, daily-life history) 3
Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel 2
,
5
Life histories/y 10
,
16
,
19 –21 23
,
24
,
26
,
29 –32 35
,
36
,
39 –41 87
,
88
,
92 –98 100
,
102
,
103
,
105
,
107 –110 172
,
295
life-history approach/method 9
,
24
,
27
,
28
,
70
,
95
,
96
life-history research 1
,
9
,
29
,
33
,
34
,
37
,
41
Lifestyle 100
,
103
,
154
,
165
,
168
,
186
Lichtenburg (town, South Africa) 175
,
177
Linearity (of time, history) 18
,
38
,
42
,
172
Literacy 35
,
154
,
166
Lubumbashi (Elisabethville) 91
,
289
Luecha, General 288
Lumumba, Patrice 275
,
277 –280
Luthuli, Albert 58
Mabrook Nyasa (freed slave girl, missionary convert) 201
Macrohistory 97
Magila (German East Africa) 199
,
205 (+n)
Maitron-Afrique (France) 29
Makhanya, Mondli 54
Malan, D.F. 40
,
53 –55
Manchester School 14
Mandela, Nelson 57 –59 188
Marist Brothers 43
,
220
,
226 –227 234 –236
Marxism/t 14
,
42
,
280
,
282
,
290 (+n)
Marxist analysis 1
,
27
Marxist-Leninist 289
,
292
Maybank, Frank 183
,
185
,
186
,
188
,
189
Mbaïki (town, Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 248
,
265
Mbanza-Kongo (Angola) 140
Mbweni (mission post Zanzibar) 212
Memory 20
,
43
,
70
,
85
,
87 –88 94
Merchant(s) (also see traders) 39n
,
136
Messiness (of lives, historical change) 38
,
101
Microhistory 3
,
9
,
11
,
30
,
33
,
34
,
37
,
93
,
96
,
97
Migration (see labour migration)
Missionaries/y 5
,
19
,
23
,
30
,
41
,
43
,
108
,
121
,
123
,
127
,
129
,
131 –136 139
,
141
,
143
,
144
,
153
,
154
,
156 –158 164
,
168
,
197
,
198
,
200
,
201
,
206
,
208
,
211
,
213n
,
246
,
248
,
249
,
251
,
253
,
255
,
257
,
258
,
260
,
266
,
270
,
272
missionary education/teachers/upbringing 99
,
130
,
199
,
207
,
212
,
227
,
228
,
230
,
247
,
248
,
251
,
252
,
262
,
271
Mkunazini (Zanzibar) 204
,
212
Morudu, Palesa 65
Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (mpla – Angola) 285 (+n)
,
292n
Mulele, Pierre 280
Mungo (Ngbaka supreme being) 252 –255 271
Muntu 22
Museveni, Yoweri 288
Mwinilunga district (Zambia) 91
,
92
,
98 –103 105 –109
Myth(ical/ological 26
,
250n
,
253
,
259
,
263
mythologies/y 44
,
119
,
220n
,
250n
,
252
,
253
Narrative turn (in historiogaphy) 13
,
92
National Party (NP – South Africa) 58
Naudé, Beyers 58
Ngandu, Kisase 288
Ngbaka(-Mabo) (ethnic group Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 250
,
252
,
253 (+n)
,
254 –257 259
,
260
,
263 (+n)
,
264
,
268n
,
269
,
270
,
272
Ngong, Johnny (royal advisor, Kom, Cameroon) 159
,
163
,
165
Ngonkoulele (palace official, Kom, Cameroon) 163
,
165
Nisa (Marjorie Shostak) 24
,
31
Nkrumah, Kwame 252
Nkumbula, Harry 291
Nouveau roman 4
,
16
Nsimba, Mwando 286
Nusora Mubwara (freed slave girl, missionary convert) 202
Nyerere, Julius 288
Nyembwe, Kazadi 288
Oral Documentation Project (South Africa) 29
,
31
,
36
Oral history 9
,
20
,
34
,
92 –94
Oral tradition 20
,
44
,
256
Orania (Afrikaner enclave – South Africa) 56
Orphan(s) 43
,
191
,
249
,
250n
orphanage 44
,
174
,
186
,
191
,
248
,
250
Orthodox Church 270
Palm Tree Mosque (Cape Town) 231
,
232
Pan Africanist Congress (pac – South Africa) 61
Panya (freed slave girl, missionary convert) 202 –205 212 –214
Parti de la Révolution Populaire (prp – Congo-Kinshasa) 284
Personhood 21
,
39
,
103
,
120
,
231
Pietism/t 41
,
121
,
124
,
126
,
127
,
130 –132 135
,
141 –144
Plaatje, Sol 8
,
25
,
43
Plymouth Brethren 108
Polygamy 143
,
257
,
258
,
270
Post-modernism/t 1
,
4
,
12
,
15
,
17 –19 21
,
32
,
38
Proletarianisation 106
Prosopography 28
Protestant(ism) 124
,
157
Psychiatry 7
,
247
,
270
psychiatric 266
Psychoanalist/psychoanalysis/psychoanalytical 6 –8
Psychology 6 –9 20
,
21
,
44
,
65
,
221
,
247
psychological 266
psychologist(s) 10
,
62
,
231
Racism/t 36
,
41
,
53
,
56
,
71
,
87
,
88
,
138
,
144
,
177
,
251
,
252
,
260
,
266
,
269
,
271
Rand Revolt 174
,
180
,
191
Religion 43
,
44
,
53
,
129
,
143
,
156
,
165
,
200n
,
205
,
206
,
215
,
231
,
237
,
250n
Representivity (of biography) 24
,
26
,
37
,
38
,
59
Resistance 25
,
40
,
42
,
44
,
73
,
74
,
82
,
84 –88 172
,
241n
,
277n
,
288
resistance movement 276
,
277
,
292
Rhodes, Cecil John 55 (+n)
,
56 (+n)
,
57
,
219
Rhodes Livingstone Institute 98
#RhodesMustFall 55n
,
56
,
57n
,
58
Rural-urban (connections, divide, other; also see urbanisation) 30
,
101
,
104 –109
São Salvador (see Mbanza-Kongo)
Schutztruppe 152
,
153
,
155
Scramble for Africa 41
,
117
,
121
,
136
,
144
Second World War/World War ii 24
,
186 –188
Secret societies/y 149
,
151
,
166
,
254
Self-fashioning (autobiographical) 16
,
17
,
19 –21 31
,
42
,
43
Sendwe, Jason 278
,
280
,
281 (+n)
,
284
Seyiti, Denys 197
,
198 (+n)
,
207
,
216
Simba rebellion (Congo-Kinshasa) 275
,
280 –284 286
,
289
,
291
,
292
Sisulu, Walter 58
Slavery 30
,
122
,
132
,
198
,
201
,
210
slave trade (Atlantic) 120
slave trade (East Africa) 197
,
201
,
207
slave trade (other) 149
Social change (explanations, narratives, theories of) 14
,
92 –96 98
,
101
,
102
,
105
,
106
,
109
,
110
Social history (including theories/writing of) 1
,
3
,
33
,
39
,
41
,
92 –98 105
,
108 –110
Socialisation 29n
,
234
,
272
Social mobility 28
,
154
Social rebirth 21
,
42
,
200 –202 204
,
205
,
207
,
209
,
210 (+n)
,
211 –214 216
Sorcerer 254 –256 258
,
259n
,
260n
,
261
,
265
,
271
,
292
Sorcery 260n
Soumialot, Gaston 280
,
282
,
283
South African College School 220
,
227
,
237
,
239
Spanish Guinea 148n
,
152
,
153
Spiritans 247
,
248
,
270
Spiritual confusion 270
Springbok Legion (South Africa) 189 –191
Stanleyville (Kisangani, Congo-Kinshasa) 279
,
281
Statues (and biographical personas) 55 –57
Steyn, Marthinus Theunis 58
Strikes 137
,
140
,
174
,
183
,
184
,
188
,
191
Structuralism 3
,
4
,
27
structuralist approaches/historians/paradigms/questions 1
,
6
,
13
,
27
Swart, C.R. 57
Syncretism/t 43
,
44
,
131
,
231
,
247
Tambo, Oliver 58
,
170
Tana Baru (Cape Town cemetry) 236
,
237
Tarabitu, Désiré 278
Tax 165
,
166
The Seed is Mine (Charles van Onselen) 36
Thompson, Edward 18
,
32
Trade unions (unionism; also see labour movement) 175
,
182
,
188 –191
Traders (also see merchants) 41
,
100
,
101
,
178
Transcendentalism/t 43
,
230
,
231
,
240
Trauma(tic) 38
,
44
,
61
,
62
,
88
,
120
,
198
,
213
,
247
,
269
,
270
traumatic childhood (as biographical trope) 269
traumatic childhood (other) 270
Trickster (figure, myth) 253
,
254n
,
259
,
265
,
268
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc) 61
,
62
,
70
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK – South Africa) 60
,
61
,
170
,
171n
,
173
,
174
,
177n
,
191
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (umca) 198 (+n)
,
200 (+n)
,
202
,
203
,
206 (+n)
,
207
,
208
,
210
,
214 (+n)
University of Cape Town 55
,
56
,
222
Urbanisation (also see rural-urban) 91
,
98 –100 105
,
106
,
184
Vansina, Jan 20
,
27
,
38
,
93
,
262n
Verwoerd, Hendrik 58
Violence, apartheid 72
,
88
colonial 249
,
269
,
270
other 70
,
71
,
73
,
80
,
82
,
86
,
137
,
157
,
278
,
279n
political 40
,
71
,
74
,
75
,
85
,
87
racial 40
,
73
,
78
,
79
,
83 –86 88
street [violence] 81
structural/systemic 40
,
72
,
191
Vlakplaas (death squad – South Africa) 61
,
65
Von Ranke, Leopold/‘Rankean’ 2
,
6
,
13
Voortrekker Monument (South Africa) 56
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (Gold Coast) 136
Witch doctor 256
Wolff, Willy 118
,
119
,
130
,
137
,
138
,
142n
,
143 (+n)
Women’s history (also see feminism/t) 29 –31
Young Man Luther (E.H. Erikson) 7
Youlou, Fulbert 270
Zanzibar 21
,
38
,
39n
,
43
,
197
,
198 (+n)
,
199
,
202 –206 207 (+n)
,
209
,
211
,
212
,
213 (+n)
Zo kwe zo (doctrine – Oubangui-Chari/Central African Republic) 262