02931nam 2200589 a 450 991045311180332120200520144314.00-85745-952-X(CKB)2550000001108954(EBL)1337746(OCoLC)855505468(SSID)ssj0000953637(PQKBManifestationID)12422246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953637(PQKBWorkID)10937105(PQKB)10513772(MiAaPQ)EBC1337746(Au-PeEL)EBL1337746(CaPaEBR)ebr10745022(CaONFJC)MIL509041(EXLCZ)99255000000110895420120813d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmpire, global coloniality and African subjectivity[electronic resource] /Sabelo J. Ndlovu-GatsheniNew York Berghahn Books20131 online resource (278 p.)Includes index.0-85745-951-1 1-299-77790-2 Includes bibliographical references.Part 1. Global imperial designs and empire -- Introduction: empire and global coloniality: towards a decolonial turn -- Global imperial designs and pan-Africanism -- Coloniality of power and African development -- Part 2. Subject, subjection and subjectivity -- The ticklish subject in Africa -- Subjection and subjectivity in South Africa -- Nationality of power in Zimbabwe -- Part 3. Coloniality, knowledge and nationalism -- Coloniality of knowledge and higher education -- African national project and national question -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Global crisis and Africa today. Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa's subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author's sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kGlobalizationPolitical aspectsAfricaNationalismAfricaAfricaPolitics and government1960-AfricaEconomic conditions1960-Electronic books.GlobalizationPolitical aspectsNationalism327.1096Ndlovu-Gatsheni Sabelo J939194MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453111803321Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity2469072UNINA