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100 1 0 _aChrétien, Jean-Pierre
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700 1 0 _a Pennec, Hervé
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245 0 0 _aImperial statements in East Africa
260 _c2012.
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520 _aEast Africa offers three examples of imperial representation in which European Orientalism imagery seems to have been superimposed onto local realities: Ethiopia’s mythical “Prester John” and the King Solomon, the ruins of Zimbabwe and Monomotapa, the kingdoms of the Great Lakes and the legend of Bacwezi. In the 19th and 20th centuries these “empires” were also exploited for their own ends by African elites.
690 _aeurocentrism
690 _aafrican kingdoms
690 _aOrientalism
690 _amyths
690 _aEthiopia
786 0 _nMonde(s) | o 2 | 2 | 2012-11-01 | p. 123-149 | 2261-6268
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes1-2012-2-page-123?lang=en
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