The Trans-border Landscape: Regional Mobility and Health Before the Border

Dube, Francis

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Francis Dube⁴

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Dube discusses the landscape and disease environment of the border region in this chapter. He provides a vivid sense of the environmental diversity to show why people would have crossed the border. Dube shows that the organization of precolonial public health overlapped with environmental differences.

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Notes

1.
For an extended discussion of Ndau history over the longue durée, see Elizabeth MacGonagle, Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007).
2.
John Keith Rennie, “Christianity, Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism among the Ndau of Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1935,” PhD Thesis, Department of History, Northwestern University, 1973, 37.
3.
Robin Palmer, Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), 14.
4.
Jocelyn Alexander, The Unsettled Land: State-Making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006), 19.
5.
J. J. Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” The Geographical Journal 2, 6 (1893): 506.
6.
Ibid., 509.
7.
Ibid., 510.
8.
C. F. M. Swynnerton, “Examination of the tsetse problem in North Mossurise, Portuguese East Africa,” Bulletin of Entomological Research 11, no. 4 (1921): 318.
9.
H. H. K. Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom: the Manyika and their African and Portuguese Neighbours, 1575–1902 (Essex: Longman, 1982), 6.
10.
Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” 517.
11.
Ibid., 510.
12.
Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom, 7.
13.
Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” 513.
14.
Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom, 2.
15.
Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” 518.
16.
Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom, 41.
17.
Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom, 42.
18.
Rennie, “Christianity, Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism,” 41.
19.
Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom, 2.
20.
Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” 515.
21.
Ibid., 515–516.
22.
Rennie, “Christianity, Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism,” 54.
23.
Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” 515. “Oofoo” is a kind of millet, see Alice Blanke Balfour, Twelve hundred miles in a wagon (London: Edward Arnold, 1895), 143.
24.
Malyn Newitt, A History of Mozambique (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 36.
25.
Leverson, “Geographical Results of the Anglo-Portuguese Delimitation Commission,” 516.
26.
Rennie, “Christianity, Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism,” 54.
27.
Newitt, A History of Mozambique, 51.
28.
Ibid.
29.
C. Serra, História de Moçambique, volume 1, (Maputo: Livraria Universitária, 2000), 35.
30.
Bhila, Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom, 81.
31.
Prazos were large estates leased to Portuguese colonial settlers and traders. They operated in a semi-feudal fashion and were common in the Zambezi River valley, north of the border region. For more on the activities of the Portuguese before formal colonial rule, see M. D. D. Newitt, Portuguese Settlement on the Zambesi: Exploration, Land Tenure, and Colonial Rule in East Africa (New York: African Publishing Company, 1973) and Allen Isaacman, Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution; the Zambesi Prazos, 1750–1902 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972).
32.
Newitt, Portuguese Settlement on the Zambesi, 25.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Rennie, “Christianity, Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism,” 65–71.
35.
Barry Neil-Tomlinson, “The Mozambique Chartered Company, 1892 to 1910,” PhD Thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1987, 11.
36.
Ford, The Role of the Trypanosomiases in African Ecology, 334.

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Dube, F. (2020). The Trans-border Landscape: Regional Mobility and Health Before the Border. In: Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940. African Histories and Modernities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47535-2_2

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