Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa
Title | Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Griffiths |
Publisher | University of Chester |
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.
Contesting Historical Divides in French-Speaking Africa
Title | Contesting Historical Divides in French-Speaking Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Griffiths |
Publisher | University of Chester |
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.
Explaining Foreign Policy in Post-Colonial Africa
Title | Explaining Foreign Policy in Post-Colonial Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen M. Magu |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2021-01-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030629309 |
This book explores foreign policy developments in post-colonial Africa. A continental foreign policy is a tenuous proposition, yet new African states emerged out of armed resistance and advocacy from regional allies such as the Bandung Conference and the League of Arab States. Ghana was the first Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence in 1957. Fourteen more countries gained independence in 1960 alone, and by May 1963, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed, 30 countries were independent. An early OAU committee was the African Liberation Committee (ALC), tasked to work in the Frontline States (FLS) to support independence in Southern Africa. Pan-Africanists, in alliance with Brazzaville, Casablanca and Monrovia groups, approached continental unity differently, and regionalism continued to be a major feature. Africa’s challenges were often magnified by the capitalist-democratic versus communist-socialist bloc rivalry, but through Africa’s use and leveraging of IGOs – the UN, UNDP, UNECA, GATT, NIEO and others – to advance development, the formation of the African Economic Community, OAU’s evolution into the AU and other alliances belied collective actions, even as Africa implemented decisions that required cooperation: uti possidetis (maintaining colonial borders), containing secession, intra- and inter-state conflicts, rebellions and building RECs and a united Africa as envisioned by Pan Africanists worked better collectively.
An Uneasy Embrace
Title | An Uneasy Embrace PDF eBook |
Author | Shobana Shankar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2021-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0197644058 |
The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gandhi statues to American Vice President Kamala Harris's story, this relationship--notwithstanding moments of common struggle--seethes with conflicts that reveal how race reverberates throughout the modern world. Shobana Shankar's groundbreaking intellectual history tackles the controversial question of how Africans and Indians make and unmake their differences. Drawing on archival and oral sources from seven countries, she traces how economic tensions surrounding the Indian diaspora in East and Southern Africa collided with widening Indian networks in West Africa and the Black Atlantic, forcing a racial reckoning over the course of the twentieth century. While decolonization brought Africans and Indians together to challenge Euro-American white supremacy, discord over caste, religion, sex and skin color simmered beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Asian solidarity. This book examines the cultural movements, including Pan-Africanism and popular devotionalism, through which Africans and Indians made race consciousness, alongside economic cooperation, a moral priority. Yet rising wealth and nationalist amnesia now threaten this postcolonial ethos. Calls to dismantle statues, from Dakar to Delhi, are not mere symbolism. They express new solidarities which seek to salvage dissenting histories and to preserve the possibility of alternative futures
Soldiers of Uncertain Rank
Title | Soldiers of Uncertain Rank PDF eBook |
Author | David Lambert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2024-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009464418 |
A cultural, military and imperial history of the Black soldiers of Britain's West India Regiments.
Contesting French West Africa
Title | Contesting French West Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Gamble |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2021-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 149622597X |
Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Political Reform In Francophone Africa
Title | Political Reform In Francophone Africa PDF eBook |
Author | John F Clark |
Publisher | Westview Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Following a few fleeting years of democratic rule after independence, dictatorship came to be viewed as much a part of the African social landscape as its grinding poverty. The end of the Cold War and the sharpening of the economic crisis at the end of the 1980s, however, have breathed new life into campaigns for democracy in Africa. This volume explores the origins and evolution of political reform movements in several states of Francophone Africa. The authors first make the case for the distinctiveness of Francophone Africa, based on the influences of colonial history, language, and France's contemporary role in Africa, then survey the challenges of reform, including the problems of transition from authoritarianism and consolidation of democratic regimes.