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  • AFR volume 95 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    Africa / Volume 95 / Issue 1 / February 2025
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    26 May 2025, pp. f1-f4
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    February 2025
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  • BSO volume 88 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 88 / Issue 1 / February 2025
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    21 May 2025, pp. b1-b2
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    February 2025
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  • Claiming ‘disability’ and being ‘a weak person’: legal and relational approaches to bodilymental difference in western Uganda

  • Julia Modern
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    Africa / Volume 95 / Issue 1 / February 2025
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    26 May 2025, pp. 21-41
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    February 2025
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  • This article, based on eighteen months of fieldwork with an organization of women with disabilities in Uganda, considers discourses about bodilymental variation that circulated among members and non-members of the organization. I identify two common discourses, based on the words obulema (disability) and abaceke (weak people). The terms are linguistically and conceptually divergent. Obulema (disability) is an individual condition, referencing a non-normative embodied state that conveys disadvantage. Conversely, recognizing someone as an omuceke (a weak person) requires attending to a person’s bodymind and their socio-economic circumstances and relationships. While obulema is an objectified individual category connected to citizenship and defined through the legal-political realm, whether someone is an omuceke is determined interpersonally. Following Oche Onazi’s suggestion that rights-based and relational approaches to disability justice, while fundamentally different, might not be incompatible, I investigate their interaction during a land dispute between a woman with visual impairment and her neighbours. I combine analysis of how different ways of talking about bodilymental difference invoke divergent logical forms of obligations with attention to the relational contexts in which these obligations apply in practice. This novel approach offers a resource for understanding the complex intersections between discourses about bodymind variation, particularly in postcolonial settings.

  • A Short Report on the Ghana Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi

  • Samuel Ntewusu, Stefano Bellucci, Samuel Andreas Admasie, Frederick Abraham
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    History in Africa / Volume 51 / May 2024
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    30 January 2025, pp. 203-210
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  • This short report discusses the resources to be found in the Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. This report is also the result of various exploratory missions, as part of a cooperative effort between the Ghana Railway Company, the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, and the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. The archive under consideration is classified as an institutional archive which provides unique insights into the social and labor history of Ghana– then Gold Coast– with some connections to West Africa and Great Britain. The archives provide additional material to the resources in the national archives in Ghana, best known as the Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD).

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