Africans In Exile

Author : Nathan Riley Carpenter,Benjamin N. Lawrance
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253038098

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Africans in Exile by Nathan Riley Carpenter,Benjamin N. Lawrance Pdf

“This rich volume will interest scholars and students of Africa, the African diaspora, world history, legal history, and international affairs.” —Lorelle Semley, author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an “archive” that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.

Author : Jakob Ejersbo
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857387554

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Exile by Jakob Ejersbo Pdf

For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere? Exile is the first of three powerful novels about growing up as an ex-pat in Tanzania. Ejersbo's first novel, Nordkraft, the Danish Trainspotting, was a phenomenal bestseller. Ejersbo's trilogy, only published after his death in 2008, has proved to be another cult and critical sensation.

Author : Bruce Whitehouse
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253000750

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Migrants and Strangers in an African City by Bruce Whitehouse Pdf

In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.

Author : Mark Israel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349149230

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South African Political Exile in the United Kingdom by Mark Israel Pdf

After 1948 many opponents of apartheid were forced out of South Africa. This accessible and readable account draws upon interviews with many of those involved to examine how those activists who came to the United Kingdom developed political organisations, social networks, ideologies and identities that supported their time in exile. It examines the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the African National Congress in exile and documents the violent attempts by the South African government to control exile activity. Finally, it investigates how exiles came to terms with the possibility that they might return.

Author : Manthia Diawara
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015052660126

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We Won't Budge by Manthia Diawara Pdf

A bittersweet memoir of growing up in Mali West Africa, being drawn to the promise of equality in Paris and the U.S., and looking at current problems of immigration and racism in the world.

Author : Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Brenda Ingrid Gill
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498550908

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Africans and the Exiled Life by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde,Brenda Ingrid Gill Pdf

This book contributes to the current discourse about immigration, xenophobia, globalization, and cultural exchanges. The contributors explore the varied immigration experiences of Africans from neighboring African and western countries while recognizing the social, cultural, e...

Author : James Martin
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570759239

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This Our Exile by James Martin Pdf

An American Jesuit combines spiritual writing, travel narrative, history, and humor to describe his time working with refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

Author : Chinedu Ogoke
Publisher : Piraeus Books LLC
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 098318531X

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African Writers in Exile by Chinedu Ogoke Pdf

Chinedu Ogoke's book discusses the psychic, physical, and metaphorical exile of the African writer. Its starting point is the fact that African writers face numerous problems in their desire to be creative. In the post-colonial era, global politics and the quest for profits have led to social disorders, persecution, and worsening economic conditions in Africa. This has forced writers from the continent to move to the West in search of peace and a chance to reach a larger audience. But while the West offers improved access to publishers, exiled writers have to deal with difficult issues of language and culture in their work. Lacking the support of the traditional African family, many feel unfulfilled and simply lost in their new surroundings. Ironically, they also feel excluded from literary activities in the place they have left. African Writers in Exile traces the paths taken by these excluded artists and the implications they may have for the future of African literature. Ogoke also analyzes their arguments for economic and political reform in various African countries. At the root of these proposals is a desire to establish political structures that will remove barriers to creative pursuits while enhancing social and political progress for all in Africa.

Author : Michael Ugarte
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252035036

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Africans in Europe by Michael Ugarte Pdf

What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of Equatorial Guinea were forced to leave, whether because of the slave trade of the early nineteenth century or the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world. Based on personal stories of people forced to leave and those who left of their own accord, Africans in Europe captures the nuanced realities and widespread impact of mobile populations. Ugarte illustrates the global material inequalities that occur when groups and populations migrate from their native land of colonization to other countries and regions that are often the lands of the former colonizers. By focusing on the geographical, emotional, and intellectual dynamics of Equatorial Guinea's human movements, readers gain an inroad to "the consciousness of an age" and an understanding of the global realities that will define the cultural, economic, and political currents of the twenty-first century.

Author : Allyson Hobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674368101

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A Chosen Exile by Allyson Hobbs Pdf

Introduction: To live a life elsewhere -- White is the color of freedom -- Waiting on a white man's chance -- Lost kin -- Searching for a new soul in Harlem -- Coming home -- Epilogue: On identity.

Author : Sean Morrow,Brown Maaba,Loyiso Pulumani
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0796920516

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Education in Exile by Sean Morrow,Brown Maaba,Loyiso Pulumani Pdf

Charting the debates and difficulties surrounding the formation of the unique and self-reliant Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), this study examines the curricula, philosophies, and experiences at this controversial institute. Describing student life, campus organizations, and political activities, the detailed research also follows the often-traumatized state of the exiled pupils.

Author : Marie-Noëlle Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anti-apartheid movements
ISBN : UOM:39015051550674

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Exiles by Marie-Noëlle Anderson Pdf

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190285555

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Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe Pdf

Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people. Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away. Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers.

Author : Lewis Nkosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015017634034

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Home and Exile by Lewis Nkosi Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola,Niyi Afolabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135900779

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Trans-Atlantic Migration by Toyin Falola,Niyi Afolabi Pdf

This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa during slavery. Along with this sense of freedom and voluntary migration comes a paradox—that of living in two worlds and negotiating the pleasures and agonies that come with living in exile. For the new African immigrant, the primary factor motivating migration is the desire for a better life whether fleeing political persecution, economic crisis, refugee crisis, or a combination thereof. The overall consequences include displacement, alienation, and the not so enchanting reality of exile. In its encompassing structure and multivalent perspectives, Trans-Atlantic Migration sets in motion the shifting theoretical and pragmatic verity that the new African diaspora and transatlantic migrations are paths laden with paradoxes that only time, negotiations, compromises, and sense of identities can ultimately resolve.