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Autore |
Mentan Tatah |
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Africa in the colonial ages of empire : slavery, capitalism, racism, colonialism, decolonization, independence as recolonization, and beyond / / Tatah Mentan |
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Mankon, Bamedna, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (507 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Globalization - Africa |
Postcolonialism - Africa |
Imperialism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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part I. Prolegomena to the colonial ages of empire-old and new -- Introduction and summary -- On colonial empire : theoretical situatedness -- part II. Africa in the old colonial age of empire -- The cotton empire of slavery, racism and resistance -- Africa in the old empire of territorial colonization -- Africa : legacies of old colonial age of empire -- part III. Africa in the new colonial age of empire -- Africa between independence and neocolonial age of empire -- Africa in the neoliberal colonial age of empire -- Africa in the colonial age of globalization empire -- Part IV. Back to the future and exiting the colonial ages of empire -- Reprise, summary, and conclusion -- Which way Africa-towards Africa-exit from colonial empire? |
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Words like "colonialism" and "empire" were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstream media as worn-out left-wing rhetoric that didn't fit reality. Not anymore! Tatah Mentan observes that a growing chorus of right-wing ideologues, with close ties to the Western administrations' war-making hawks in NATO, are encouraging Washington and the rest of Europe to take pride in the expansion of |
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their power over people and nations around the globe. Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire is written from the perspective that the scholarly lives of academics researching on Africa are changing, constantly in flux and increasingly bound to the demands of Western colonial imperialism. This existential situation has forced the continent to morph into a tool in the hands of Colonial Empire. According to Tatah Mentan, the effects of this existential situation of Africa compel serious academic scrutiny. At the same time, inquiry into the African predicament has been changing and evolving within and against the rhythms of this "new normal" of Colonial Empire-Old or New. The author insists that the long and bloody history of imperial conquest that began with the dawn of capitalism needs critical scholarly examination. As Marx wrote in Capital: "The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief moment of primitive accumulation." Africa in the Colonial Ages of Empire is therefore a MUST-READ for faculty, students as well as policy makers alike in the changing dynamics of their profession, be it theoretically, methodologically, or structurally and materially. |
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