Exploitation And Misrule In Colonial And Postcolonial Africa

Author : Kenneth Kalu,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319964966

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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Kenneth Kalu,Toyin Falola Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu’s Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies.

Author : Rosina Beckman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508102793

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Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Rosina Beckman Pdf

By the early twentieth century, nearly the entire continent of Africa had been divided up between European powers. This volume traces the history of colonialism in each of Africa’s regions, as well as the fight for independence and the challenges of establishing viable nations after years languishing under the colonial yoke. The political, economic, and social elements of colonialism are all explored. The title also delves into the patterns in European-African interactions that led to colonialism, including the slave trade and the ivory trade. A comprehensive, wide-ranging reference volume.

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9782869785786

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Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

In this book the author examines the current state of postcolonial Africa with a focus on the "liberation predicament" and the crisis of epistemological, cultural, economic, and political dependence created by colonialism and coloniality.

Author : Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137594266

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History by Martin S. Shanguhyia,Toyin Falola Pdf

This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book’s core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.

Author : Kenneth Omeje
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782869787278

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The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa by Kenneth Omeje Pdf

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it. A key conceptual rhythm that runs through the various chapters of the book is that, far from being demised, postcoloniality is still firmly embedded in Africa, manifesting itself in both blatant and insidious forms. Among the important themes covered in the book include the concepts of postcolonialism, postcoloniality, and neocolonialism; Africas precolonial formations and the impact of colonialism; the enduring patterns of colonial legacies in Africa; the persistent contradictions between African indigenous institutions and western versions of modernity; the unravelling of the postcolonial state and issues of armed conflict, conflict intervention and peacebuilding; postcolonial imperialism in Africa and the US-led global war on terror, the historical and postcolonial contexts of gender relations in Africa, as well as pan-Africanism and regionalist approaches to redressing the crises of postcoloniality.

Author : Pnina Werbner
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1856499553

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Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa by Pnina Werbner Pdf

This is the third volume in a trilogy on identity, memory and subjectivity. Contributors to the book share an ambition to combine personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans. Their essays aim to forge alliances between patient local scholarship and adventurous theoretical speculation that should inspire new research and caution against bland generalizations about African marginality.

Author : D. Pal S. Ahluwalia
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0415237467

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Politics and Post-colonial Theory by D. Pal S. Ahluwalia Pdf

Politics and Post-colonial Theory bravely breaks down disciplinary boundaries, tracing how African identity has been constituted and reconstituted by examining movements such as nationalism, negritued and decolonisation.

Author : Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512203

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She Is Weeping by Dannelle Gutarra Cordero Pdf

A new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery in the Atlantic World.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108837972

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Understanding Modern Nigeria by Toyin Falola Pdf

An introduction to the politics and society of post-colonial Nigeria, highlighting the key themes of ethnicity, democracy, and development.

Author : Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam
Publisher : Washington : University Press of America
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003977017

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Nationalism in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa by Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam Pdf

Author : Charlotte Baker,Jennifer Jahn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443814577

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Postcolonial Slavery by Charlotte Baker,Jennifer Jahn Pdf

This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law banning the slave trade. Slavery and its legacies galvanized a diachronic series of ethnic crossings and transformations that engendered new and complex patterns of crosscultural contact. And the importance of communities of runaway slaves can scarcely be overstated as a symbol of an insistent black resistance and self-affirmation. But in bringing the material realities of slavery to the forefront of the imagination, this volume also highlights the marginalization of British and French colonial practices in institutionalized frameworks of historical knowledge. Actively contesting the related traumas of transplantation, the middle passage, and the fracturing of the collective memory, and drawing actively on a wide range of approaches and perspectives, this collection seeks to reinscribe a material historical consciousness of slavery and its legacies through a strategic interaction between history, subjectivity, and representation. —H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Author : Mwene Mushanga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966031709

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Slavery and Colonialism by Mwene Mushanga Pdf

African historians documented the histories of their tribal people and have not investigated the role of slavery and colonialism in the shaping of the African personality; or how the two evils have in some way or other contributed to the slow economic growth of Africa. It is the belief of the author that reparations should be sought not to bring about economic development or to reduce dependence but redress wrongs the degradation, vandalism, terrorism and other inhuman treatment Africans have experienced nor is the demand racially motivated. The demand is for indemnity for inhuman acts committed against African people and is made in the belief that the international community will accept the reality of slave trade and later, imperialism and colonialism are crimes against humanity.

Author : Kay Bea Jones,Stephanie Pilat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000061444

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The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture by Kay Bea Jones,Stephanie Pilat Pdf

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new buildings across the Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From hospitals, post offices and stadia to housing, summer camps, Fascist Party Headquarters, ceremonial spaces, roads, railways and bridges, the physical traces of the regime have a presence in nearly every Italian town. The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture investigates what has become of the architectural and urban projects of Italian fascism, how sites have been transformed or adapted and what constitutes the meaning of these buildings and cities today. The essays include a rich array of new arguments by both senior and early career scholars from Italy and beyond. They examine the reception of fascist architecture through studies of destruction and adaptation, debates over reuse, artistic interventions and even routine daily practices, which may slowly alter collective understandings of such places. Paolo Portoghesi sheds light on the subject from his internal perspective, while Harald Bodenschatz situates Italy among period totalitarian authorities and their symbols across Europe. Section editors frame, synthesize and moderate essays that explore fascism’s afterlife; how the physical legacy of the regime has been altered and preserved and what it means now. This critical history of interpretations of fascist-era architecture and urban projects broadens our understanding of the relationships among politics, identity, memory and place. This companion will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including Italian history, architectural history, cultural studies, visual sociology, political science and art history.

Author : Minna Johanna Niemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429639272

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Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing by Minna Johanna Niemi Pdf

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. Covering the authors Ayi Kwei Armah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nuruddin Farah, Michiel Heyns, and J. M. Coetzee, the book places each writer’s novels in their cultural and literary context in order to investigate similarities and differences between fictional approaches to individual complicity in politically unstable situations. In doing so, the study focuses on these texts’ representations of discomforting experiences of being implicated in harm done to others in order to show that it is precisely during times of political crisis that questions of moral responsibility and implicatedness in compromised conduct become more pronounced. The study also challenges longstanding western amnesia concerning responsibility for historical and present-day violence in African countries and juxtaposes this denial of responsibility with the western literary readership’s consumption of narratives of African “suffering.” The study instead proposes new reading habits based on an awareness of readerly complicity and responsibility. Drawing insights from across political philosophy and literary theory, this book will be of interest to researchers of African literature, postcolonial studies, and peace and conflict studies.

Author : Pnina Werbner,Terence Ranger
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038158286

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Postcolonial Identities in Africa by Pnina Werbner,Terence Ranger Pdf

Making a break with conventional wisdom in post-colonial discourse, this book explores contemporary African identities in transition. The contributors look at the colonial legacy and how colonial identities are being reconstructed in the face of deepening social inequality across the continent.