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Seeking wisdom and lore from powerful women in the Bantu Matrilineal Belt

This blog will chronicle our research in the Bantu Matrilineal Belt. We received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (maybe the last for a while) to do this research. This year Trip 1 will take us to Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The adventure begins . . .

Blog 8 Profs take Lubumbashi by a drizzle in dry season and the Saga of the Marital Pot

The main reason we received the visa to DRC was because we were giving a talk at the University about the significance of matrilineal societies to African history. We arrived on campus and found Jeff Hoover. Jeff received his PhD. in African history from Yale in the 80’s when there were no jobs at all for professors of African history—therefore after doing his research in Congo on the Lunda Empire, he decided to return to Congo as a Methodist missionary. He has been there f

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Seeking wisdom and lore from powerful women in the Bantu Matrilineal Belt

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