Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Examines the history of exploitation in Africa across the colonial and postcolonial periods Analyzes how colonial and postcolonial subjugation and misrule is represented in African literature Offers case studies of dominance and subjugation that are representative of Africa’s past and present
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Kenneth Kalu
Themen in »Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa«
postcolonial African state Political independence in Africa African nationalism Kwame Nkrumah Reconciliation in South Africa King Leopold II and the Congo President Mobutu African soldiers in the Second World War apartheid South Africa Zaire Ngugi wa Thiong’o the African novel postcolonial literary criticism African rhetoric Alda do Espírito Santo