Colonial Mentality In Africa
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Author | : Michael Nkuzi Nnam |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0761832912 |
Intended for a broad audience, Colonial Mentality in Africa explores the lingering effects of colonization in present day Africa. Despite the independence of all African nations from their former colonizers mental slavery still persists. This new work explores the social climate of Africa and the thriving "colonial mentality". The book explores issues such as matriarchy, religion, tradition and values, law, the influence of Islam, and government.
Author | : Colin Samson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-07-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1509529993 |
Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly enslaved and colonized peoples? This trenchant book brings human rights into conversation with the histories and afterlives of Western colonialism and slavery. Colin Samson examines the paradox that the nations that credit themselves with formulating universal human rights were colonial powers, settler colonists and sponsors of enslavement. Samson points out that many liberal theorists supported colonialism and slavery, and how this illiberalism plays out today in selective, often racist processes of recognition and enforcement of human rights. To reveal the continuities between colonial histories and contemporary events, Samson connects British, French and American colonial theories and practice to the notion of non-universal human rights. Vivid illustrations and case studies of racial exceptions to human rights are drawn from the afterlives of the enslaved and colonized, as well as recent events such as American police killings of black people, the treatment of Algerian harkis in France, the Windrush scandal in Britain and the militarized suppression of the Standing Rock Water Protectors movement. Advocating for reparative justice and indigenizing law, Samson argues that such events are not a failure of liberalism so much as an inbuilt racial dynamic of it.
Author | : Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | : African Renaissance Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-03-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
In his book Colonial Mentality and the Destiny of Africa, Godfrey Mwakikagile examines the negative impact of colonial mentality on Africa's well-being as a continental crisis and how it impedes Africa's progress and the quest for an African renaissance.
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192802488 |
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author | : Richard C. Keller |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0226429776 |
Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship. Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France and North Africa, Richard Keller offers much more than a history of colonial psychology. Colonial Madness explores the notion of what French thinkers saw as an inherent mental, intellectual, and behavioral rift marked by the Mediterranean, as well as the idea of the colonies as an experimental space freed from the limitations of metropolitan society and reason. These ideas have modern relevance, Keller argues, reflected in French thought about race and debates over immigration and France’s postcolonial legacy.
Author | : Nathan Hare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A penetrating exposition of the Black middle class individuals who do not accept their role and responsibilties as advocates for all African Americans.
Author | : Katherine Luongo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2011-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139503456 |
Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Katherine Luongo discusses the emergence of imperial networks of knowledge about witchcraft. She then demonstrates how colonial concerns about witchcraft produced an elaborate body of jurisprudence about capital crimes. The book analyzes the legal wrangling that produced the Witchcraft Ordinances in the 1910s, the birth of an anthro-administrative complex surrounding witchcraft in the 1920s, the hotly contested Wakamba Witch Trials of the 1930s, the explosive growth of legal opinion on witch-murder in the 1940s, and the unprecedented state-sponsored cleansings of witches and Mau Mau adherents during the 1950s. A work of anthropological history, this book develops an ethnography of Kamba witchcraft or uoi.
Author | : Martin Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2012-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521768411 |
A striking new interpretation of colonial policing and political violence in three empires between the two world wars.
Author | : V. S. Naipaul |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2018-08-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735277141 |
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
Author | : Shawn Michael Austin |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826361978 |
In Colonial Kinship: Guaraní, Spaniards, and Africans in Paraguay, historian Shawn Michael Austin traces the history of conquest and colonization in Paraguay during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Emphasizing the social and cultural agency of Guaraní—one of the primary indigenous peoples of Paraguay—not only in Jesuit missions but also in colonial settlements and Indian pueblos scattered in and around the Spanish city of Asunción, Austin argues that interethnic relations and cultural change in Paraguay can only be properly understood through the Guaraní logic of kinship. In the colonial backwater of Paraguay, conquistadors were forced to marry into Guaraní families in order to acquire indigenous tributaries, thereby becoming “brothers-in-law” (tovajá) to Guaraní chieftains. This pattern of interethnic exchange infused colonial relations and institutions with Guaraní social meanings and expectations of reciprocity that forever changed Spaniards, African slaves, and their descendants. Austin demonstrates that Guaraní of diverse social and political positions actively shaped colonial society along indigenous lines.