Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kalu, Kenneth (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Falola, Toyin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: African Histories and Modernities
• Θέματα: Africa-History.; Imperialism.; African literature.; Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development.; African History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; African Literature.; African Politics.; Development and Post-Colonialism.

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 ben...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.