VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

26-36

Authors: V. Dimov

On 26 March 1917 colonel Stefan Ilieff, a commander of the 15th Infantry Lom regiment (Belogradchik), was killed on the battlefield at Pelister, near Bitolja (Macedonia). The text of V. Dimov, a war correspondent at the 6th Infantry Bdin division, was published in the magazine “Otechestvo” (Homeland), Volume 4, Number 45, 11 November 1917.

106-121

Authors: S.O. Solanke

Creating myths and mythologies out of facts and fictions has been known to man for a long time. The practice of using them for freedom struggle is something very recent, amongst the many situations they are intended for. This position, taken to a higher level, is predominant in Ebrahim N. Hussein’s Kinjeketile: creating new myths from the old to fight a pressing national societal dilemma. The Tanzanians, in unbundling the shackles of the Germans in the late 19th century to the early 20th century, had to recreate and utilize the myths of unity and inner strength through a prophet-seer, Kinjeketile. He became a rallying point through his divinely given gifts of water and fly-whisk. For him and the freedom of the nation, the people went to war. This paper, therefore, sees the possibility of a conquered, separated and disunited people becoming a whole and unified nation in the face of an enemy: freedom is achievable with the remaking of the old myths to suit, serve and fight new social problems as they arise.

128-128

Authors: B.V. Toshev (Ed.)

Gurko Josifov