KANT I
12. - 14. Mai 2006
Beiträge zur 1. Kölner Afrikawissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstagung (KANT I)
Herausgegeben von
Markus Egert, Fabian Heerbaart, Kathrin Kolossa, Mareike Limanski, Meikal Mumin, Peter André Rodekuhr, Susanne Rous, Marc Seifert, Sylvia Stankowski und Marilena Thanassoula
am Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität zu Köln, im Mai 2007
1. Staat und Gewalt im Geschlechterverhältnis in Eritrea
Asia Abdulkadir
Psychologisches Institut der Universität Bonn
Zentrales Ziel meiner Studie ist es, den innergesellschaftlichen eritreischen Diskurs...
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...um Gewalt im Geschlechterverhältnis zu analysieren. Es wird darin aufgezeigt, in welcher Weise
von Regierungs- und Bevölkerungsseite über gesellschaftliche Gewaltphänomene - insbesondere
über sexualisierte Gewalt - debattiert wird. Im Forschungsmittelpunkt stehen die aktuellen
Alltags- und Gewalterfahrungen weiblicher Militärangehöriger in der eritreischen Armee, um
auf dieser Grundlage generelle Erkenntnisse über Gewalt im Geschlechterverhältnis innerhalb
der Gesamtgesellschaft Eritreas ableiten zu können.
2. Fostering ICT use in teacher education in Africa
Michael Auerswald & Justine Magambo
Pädagogisches Seminar der Universität zu Köln
Die Implementierung und Nutzung von ICT schreitet auch in Afrika voran....
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...Nur wenige afrikanische Untersuchungen liegen vor, die identifizieren, was als Beispiel für gutes pädagogisches Handeln im
ICT-Bereich betrachtet werden kann. Vorliegender Aufsatz untersucht deshalb die Entwicklung und
Anwendung von effektivem ICT-Teacher-Training in Afrika aus einer theoretischen und einer praktischen Perspektive.
3. Die Lexikografie der nilosaharanischen Sprachen
Claudia Baasner
Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität zu Köln
The Nilo-Saharan languages, which range several thousands of kilometers from Mali in the West of Africa to Tanzania,...
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...in the East of Africa, is one of four language-families that were identified by
Greenberg (1963). To this day this family is quite controversial and the genetic togetherness of the
languages is only in some cases reasonably certain.
Alltogether there are only a few written sources, regarding the Nilo-Saharan languages, although the
internet provides a remarkable amount of information. Therefore, for many of these languages there is
a lack of dictionaries; to some extent there are only lists of words or just old, incomplete dictionaries.
In addition to the unsatisfiying amount of linguistic information in general, which makes it difficult to
compile a dictionary, other problems arise.
The Nilo-Saharan family, for example, consists of tonal languages. Besides the identification of these
often quite complex tone patterns, it is difficult to reproduce the tones and tone patterns properly and
completely in the orthography of a dictionary.
Furthermore, some of the languages are indeed used for oral communication, but they usually do not
appear in a written form. As a result it is not easy to express all of the phonemes that appear in the
language in an adequate and sufficient orthography. These and other problems will be illustrated with the help of some examples.
4. (Hochschul-)Bildung in Postkonfliktsituationen
Akiiki Babyesiza
Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung der Universität Kassel
The role of education in postconflict situations and postconflict reconstruction has long been neglected by international...
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...non-governmental organisations and educational scientists. At the same time,
pracitioners and scientists included merely the focus on the management and provision of primary
education in the postconflict settings. This springs from the general point of view in multilateral
organisations and international non-governmental organisations that exclusively focus on primary
education as an essential basis for economic development. In my paper I will argue that the
reconstruction of the higher education sector in postconflict situations needs to be given more attention
as higher learning forms a basis for state- and nation-building in postcolonial postconflict settings. My
argument is exemplified by the educational situation - past and present - in the Republic of Sudan.
5. Trypanosomen und Tinbeef - Medizinisches Wissen um Schlafkrankheit zwischen Kamerun und Deutschland, 1910-1914
Manuela Bauche
Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität Leipzig
To conceive metropole and colony as "one analytical field," as Frederick Cooper and Ann L. Stoler have proposed, is by now...
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...a familiar approach to colonial studies. However, in historical studies which
do not aim at the examination of explicitly colonial contexts, research still tends to exclusively focus on developments in Europe and the Western world, neglecting colonial areas as supposedly minor
scenes of major developments taking place in the metropoles. This is the case for the history of medicine, even though an important part of the scientific ideas it examines were fashioned during the
period of European imperial expansion.
Building on the history of sleeping sickness campaigns in German Cameroon, I will present a case study which illustrates the need for historical research on medicical science around 1900 to adopt an
analytical perspective which integrates developments in the metropole and the colony as equal parts of the story to be written. I will show that medical knowledge on sleeping sickness and its treatment was
developed both in scientific laboratories in metropolitan Germany and in sleeping sickness camps in Cameroon; that the findings gathered were not only relevant to health care in the colony, but also of
crucial importance to medical work in the metropole; finally, it will be made evident that the production of this knowledge was only possible through the specific interactions between agents in the metropole and the colony.
6. Militarisierte Flüchtlingssiedlungen in Afrika: Hintergründe eines Sicherheitsproblems
Felix Gerdes
Department Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Hamburg
This article links the phenomenon of militarised refugee camps and settlements to exclusive war strategies on the one hand...
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...and vested political interest in the host state on the other. Society is understood as the interplay of political, economic and symbolic reproduction. Contradictions in these
three dimensions form the background of organised armed conflict. Using the formula of "selfperpetuation of warfare", the author shows that massive violence and consequent flight sharpen
existing contradictions. Flight represents the exclusion of certain groups from political, economic and symbolic systems of reproduction in the home country. Instead of integrating into civilian life in the
host country, refugees in militarised camps integrate into an insurgent order described as an idealtypical "order of refugee armies".
The incidence of militarised refugee populations is overrepresented in Africa. The analysis links the phenomenon of refugee-warriors to a common characteristic of the host states particularly prevalent in
Africa: instability and heavy informalisation of politics. In the quest for power, host state actors try to increase their power resources by establishing alliances with armed refugee actors. Countries in which
refugee-warriors can become active are typically those where the ruling regime faces strong opposition, where political structures are authoritarian and competition for power is hardly
institutionalised, and where informal political structures extend into the security sector.
7. Weiße Geister - Diachrone Stereotype in Nordnamibia und Südangola. Eine Bestandsaufnahme.
Sunna Gieseke & Marc Seifert
Institut für Afrikanistik der Universität zu Köln
The following essay deals with white stereotypes in southwestern Africa (northern Namibia and southern Angola), based on the fact...
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...that whites, and in particular those of German origin, are denoted
as white ghosts in a negative connotation among the Herero of Namibia, although white ghosts are in general related to positive connotations. Where does the term white ghosts come from, why is it used
to denote whites and since when? The essay tries to give a stimulation for the investigation on linguistic, historical, political and traditional approaches to an interesting and so far almost unexplored
field of the history of migration and culture of southwestern Africa from a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective.
8. Kulturkontakte im Indischen Ozean und indische Gemeinschaften in Ostafrika als Beispiel für die Kritik an Kultur- und Raumkonzepten der Ethnologie
Nina Grube
Institut für Ethnologie der Freien Universität Berlin
This paper explores the relation between the lack of ethnographic literature on South-Asian communities in East Africa...
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...and the traditional anthropological theory of culture and space. Traditional
anthropological views on segmented cultures and societies are identified as one reason for the ethnographic neglect of the presence of South-Asians in East Africa. The article gives an overview of
recent critical voices of the "practice of spatial and cultural segmentation" and analyses the history of the Indian Ocean region as an example for this. The countries around the Indian Ocean have been
interconnected through trade by dhows for nearly two-thousand years. The economic expansion of Arab and Indian traders has thereby led to a spread of Islam and to the migration of Arabs and South-
Asians to the East African coast. South-Asian communities in Tanzania and Kenya may thus serve as an example for the thesis that cultures and societies do not necessarily have to be rooted in geographic
places of origin and that this is also not a contemporary symptom of globalization. They can be seen both as an historically formed part of East Africa and as preserving their particular South-Asian identity.
