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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

Editors: Kalu, Kenneth; Falola, Toyin

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6

ISBN: 978-3-319-96495-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 9, 2018

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa

Kalu, Kenneth; Falola, Toyin

Pages: 1 –23

[This chapter provides an introduction to the volume and summarizes the arguments advanced by the contributors. The central argument is that the lot of the average African citizen has, in several respects, followed the same path from colonial exploitation to postcolonial misrule. What has changed...
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Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari as a Paradigm

Lare, Damlègue

Pages: 27 –50

[This chapter examines the literary aesthetics Ngugi uses to rupture neocolonial legacies and deconstruct imperialist discourses in Matigari. Marxist aesthetics and postcolonialist literary criticism proposed by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin are used as theoretical frameworks....
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Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism

Henaku, Nancy

Pages: 51 –75

[This chapter examines Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism so as to highlight twentieth-century African rhetoric and how it might enrich the theoretical substance of contemporary discourses on decoloniality. The analysis emphasizes four decolonial rhetorical moves in Consciencism: that is, a critique of...
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Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets

Bámgbóṣé, Gabriel

Pages: 77 –99

[Bámgbóṣé studies African women’s poetry as a significant vehicle for framing imaginative and discursive responses to the violence of colonial experience in Africa. Considering that critical works engaging the colonial question in modern African poetry often limit their critique to anticolonial...
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Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather

Agbo, Joshua

Pages: 101 –124

[Under the flashing light of hope, Makhaya Maseko, the protagonist of Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather, seeks exile in a world elsewhere. For him, exile is always about a journey and the discovery of new places through migration. It is about the search for home by homing away from the harsh...
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Ingrid de Kok’s “A Room Full of Questions” and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Sharp, Michael

Pages: 125 –143

[Michael Sharp’s chapter outlines the courageous work of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and focuses on a sequence of 12 poems entitled “A Room Full of Questions” in Ingrid de Kok’s Terrestrial Things (2004). The poems emphasize not only the Commission’s “invisible mending of...
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Identity, the “Passing” Novel, and the Phenomenology of “Race”

Logan, Mawuena K.

Pages: 145 –161

[The physical and psychological dismemberment of the African continent and its Diaspora, occasioned by the transatlantic slave trade and colonization, cannot be wished away or repaired by negating the self (past), and therefore remains one of the primary concerns of writers of the Black Atlantic....
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Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu’s “Authentic” Zaïre

Lazure Vieira, Daviel

Pages: 165 –190

[Lazure Vieira examines the doctrine of authenticité, Mobutu’s self-described “African philosophy” whose aim was to reconcile ideas of the past informed by precolonial times with the exigencies of modernity. According to Mobutu, authenticité represented a departure from the ferocity of the...
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World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943–1947

Coates, Oliver

Pages: 191 –215

[This chapter examines the lives of the 73,290 West Africans who fought in South Asia during World War II. Focusing on their daily lives and activities in Asia, it will outline the social, economic, and cultural encounters that shaped these men’s time in India. Eschewing any homogeneous...
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A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi’s Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System

Cauli, Alberto

Pages: 217 –241

[Cauli offers a new summary of Italian colonialism in Somalia in the 1920s and 1930s. Focusing on colonial farming policy, the chapter draws attention to the activities of the Società Agricola Italo-Somala, established by Luigi Amedeo of Savoia, the Duke of Abruzzi, in 1920. As well as providing...

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