Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa / edited by Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola.
Kalu, Kenneth., editor; Falola, Toyin., editor
2019
DT1-3415
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Title Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa / edited by Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola.
ISBN 9783319964966
3319964968
331996495X
9783319964959
9783319964973
3319964976
9783030072025
3030072029
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIII, 303 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6 doi
Call Number DT1-3415
Dewey Decimal Classification 960
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Kalu, Kenneth., editor
Falola, Toyin., editor
Series African histories and modernities.
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1. Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa
Section I. Encounters: Texts, Images, and Fiction
2. Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari as a Paradigm
3. Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism
4. Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets
5. Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather
6. Ingrid de Kok's "A Room Full of Questions" and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
7. Identity, the "Passing" Novel, and the Phenomenology of "Race"
Section II. Encounters: Spaces of Subjugation and Dominance
8. Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu's "Authentic" Zaïre
9. World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943-1947
10. A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi's Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System
11. The Magical Hour of Midnight: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's Independence Days
12. Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience.

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