Francophone Africa At Fifty
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Author | : Tony Chafer |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526102943 |
France’s presence on the African continent has often been presented as ‘cooperation’ and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris – and quite as often been denounced as ‘the longest scandal of the republic’ by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France’s sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte d’Ivoire during the 2000s, the legacy of French colonialism has shaped the historical trajectory of more than a dozen countries and societies in Africa. The complexities of this story are now, for the first time, addressed in a comprehensive series of essays, based on new research by a group of specialists in French colonial history. The book addresses the needs of both academic specialists and those of students of history and neighbouring disciplines looking for structural analysis of key themes in France’s and Africa’s shared history.
Author | : Tony Chafer |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Africa, French-speaking |
ISBN | : 9781781707517 |
Author | : Claire Griffiths |
Publisher | : University of Chester |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013-06-30 |
Genre | : African literature (French) |
ISBN | : 1908258535 |
From Senegal in the west to the Comoros islands in the east, this collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of 'independence' in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean. With methods and perspectives that cross traditional disciplinary barriers, Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa proposes fresh insights into the process of decolonisation in this part of the world.
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Africa, French-speaking |
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Author | : Claire Griffiths |
Publisher | : University of Chester |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1908258039 |
This collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of independence in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Author | : Ruth Ginio |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803253397 |
7 Adjusting to a New Reality: The Army and the Imminent Independence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author | : Andrew W.M. Smith |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1911307746 |
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
Author | : Nicki Hitchcott |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1781385904 |
This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European society, culture and history.
Author | : Nancy Benjamin |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012-06-18 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0821395424 |
This book provides a detailed description and analysis of: the characteristics and functioning of informal sector firms; the causes of the pervasiveness of these firms; the relations between formal and informal firms; the consequences of informality for economic development; and appropriate policy responses.
Author | : Anne M. François |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2011-08-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739148265 |
Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the its masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Négritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African past allegorized as a mother figure. In contrast these women writers, of the post-colonial era who are to large extent heirs of Négritude, differ sharply from their male counterparts in their representation of Africa. In their novels, the continent is not represented as a propitious mother figure but a disappointing father figure. This study argues that these women writers' subversion of the metaphorical figure of Africa and its transformation is tied to their gender. The women novelists are indeed critical of a female allegorization of the land that is reminiscent of a colonial or nationalist project and a simplistic representation of motherhood that does not reflect the complexities of the Diaspora's relation to origins and identity. Unlike the primary male writers of the Négritude movement, theycarefully "gendered" the notion of return by choosing female protagonists who made their way back to the Motherland in search of identity. I argue that writing is a more suitable space for the female subject seeking identity because it allows her to havea voice and become subject rather than object as that was the case with the Négritude writers. The women writers' shattering of the image of Mother Africa and subsequently that of Father Africa highlights the complex relationship between Africa and the Diaspora from a female point of view. It shifts the identity quest of the characters towards the Caribbean, which emerges as the real problematic mother: a multi-faceted, fragmented figure that reflects the constitutive clash that occurred in the archipelago between Europe, Africa, and the Americas where the issues of race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, history, and language are very complex.