African Agency And European Colonialism

Author : Femi James Kolapo,Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0761838465

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African Agency and European Colonialism by Femi James Kolapo,Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry Pdf

This work provides insights into important moments in the European colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers of Africa's socio-political structures. It reveals the indispensability of the African peoples, their pre-colonial establishments, and knowledge of the colonial encounter. The book also clarifies the significant impact that African people's choices, chances, mistakes, and internal politics had in structuring their colonial experience and European dominance. Colonized Africans and colonizing Europeans had to negotiate the nature of their relationship: the grid, nexus, and hierarchy of colonial power and authority were constantly under construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. African Agency and European Colonialism expounds upon these beclouded features of Africa's engagement of colonialism. It is appropriate for students, scholars, political analysts, sociologists, and other professionals interested in the social and political history of Africa. Book jacket.

Author : C. Youé,T. Stapleton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230288485

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Agency and Action in Colonial Africa by C. Youé,T. Stapleton Pdf

The coming of colonialism to Subsaharan Africa generated many forces that historians often describe in abstract terms: peasantization, leadership, nationalism and even colonialism. Such terms often hide or overwhelm the individual experiences of those who, in some way, contributed to the development and demise of colonial Africa. These 'agents' of empire - intellectuals and peasants, chiefs and ex-slaves, nationalists and colonial officials - symbolise the ambiguities of and limitations on colonial power. Agency and Action in Colonial Africa attempts to capture their role.

Author : A. Adu Boahen
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780966020144

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African Perspectives on European Colonialism by A. Adu Boahen Pdf

In this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the perceptions and responses of Africans to European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This edition of Boahen's text, originally published in 1989, is contextualized in a new foreword by John Lonsdale, updating some of Boahen's findings and interpretations while maintaining that the "best, totally unambiguous, legacy of this republication would surely be the inspiration of a new generation of African scholars, locally based, as clear-minded and outspoken as Adu Boahen himself."

Author : Emmet Vaughn Mittlebeeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015019361958

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European Colonialism in Africa by Emmet Vaughn Mittlebeeler Pdf

Author : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781787388857

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Against Decolonisation by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Pdf

Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds ‘decolonisation’ of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society’s foundations. Worst of all, today’s movement attacks its own cause: ‘decolonisers’ themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today’s ‘decolonisation’ truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò’s is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.

Author : Stewart C. Easton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000858006

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The Twilight of European Colonialism by Stewart C. Easton Pdf

The Twilight of European Colonialism (1961) is a comprehensive appraisal of modern colonialism, as well as providing historical background, of the governments of British, French, Belgian and Portuguese colonies. Political events in colonies and former colonies in all parts of the world are discussed. Charting the political development of each colony, the author analyses at each stage the significance of the major advances toward self-government in addition to critically examining and comparing the policies and performances of the European powers involved.

Author : Olúfémi Táíwò
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253221308

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How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa by Olúfémi Táíwò Pdf

Based on the idea that Africa was already becoming modern before being derailed by colonialism, the author insists that Africa can get back on track and advocates a renewed engagement with modernity. Tools toward shaping a positive future for Africa are immigration, capitalism, democracy, and globalization.

Author : Peter Duignan,Lewis H. Gann
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817916930

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Burden of Empire by Peter Duignan,Lewis H. Gann Pdf

Since its publication in 1967, Burden of Empire has been widely praised and criticized for its controversial approach to the problem of colonialism in Africa. The authors have challenged the new "orthodoxy" about Africa—the belief that little but evil and exploitation has resulted from the era of European colonialism.

Author : Jan Záhořík,Linda Piknerová
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351710527

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Colonialism on the Margins of Africa by Jan Záhořík,Linda Piknerová Pdf

Colonial rule shaped the map of Africa like no other event in history. New borders were delineated; explorers and colonial armies were getting into the interior of the continent in order to grab the "magnificent cake of Africa." Colonialism on the Margins of Africa examines less known and smaller or peripheral areas of Africa which played a significant role in the process of colonization of Africa by European powers. Due to diverse socio-economic, religious, ethno-linguistic, as well as political factors, places like the Somali-speaking territories, the Gambia, or Swaziland were divided between or surrounded by various administrative and political systems with different economic opportunities shaping the way to different futures in the post-colonial period. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African history and colonial and postcolonial politics.

Author : Florence Bernault
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1478001585

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Colonial Transactions by Florence Bernault Pdf

In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use of human organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as "transactions." Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon. Overturning theories of colonial and postcolonial nativism, this book is essential reading for historians and anthropologists of witchcraft, power, value, and the body.

Author : Olúfémi Táíwò
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253003973

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How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa by Olúfémi Táíwò Pdf

Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought modernity to Africa, Olúfémi Táíwò claims that Africa was already becoming modern and that colonialism was an unfinished project. Africans aspired to liberal democracy and the rule of law, but colonial officials aborted those efforts when they established indirect rule in the service of the European powers. Táíwò looks closely at modern institutions, such as church missionary societies, to recognize African agency and the impulse toward progress. He insists that Africa can get back on track and advocates a renewed engagement with modernity. Immigration, capitalism, democracy, and globalization, if done right this time, can be tools that shape a positive future for Africa.

Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484

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African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone Pdf

Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Catherine Gegout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190845162

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Why Europe Intervenes in Africa by Catherine Gegout Pdf

Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response of European actors is generally inaction. This can be explained in several ways: the absence of strategic and economic interests, the unwillingness of European leaders to become involved in conflicts in former colonies of other European states, and sometimes the Eurocentric assumption that conflict in Africa is a normal event which does not require intervention. When European actors do decide to intervene, it is primarily for motives of security and prestige, and not primarily for economic or humanitarian reasons. The weight of past relations with Africa can also be a driver for European military intervention, but the impact of that past is changing. This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches. It refutes the assumptions of liberals and constructivists who posit that states and organisations intervene primarily in order to respect the principle of the 'responsibility to protect'.

Author : Stewart Copinger EASTON
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Twilight of European Colonialism by Stewart Copinger EASTON Pdf

Author : A. Adu Boahen
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 085255060X

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African Perspectives on Colonialism by A. Adu Boahen Pdf

Counteracts the misconception of Africa having no history before colonisation.