LEADER 04353nam 22006735 450 001 9910484929603321 005 20230810194822.0 010 $a9783319964966$bebk 010 $a3319964968 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000006999337 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5544006 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-96496-6 035 $a(Perlego)3493569 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006999337 100 $a20181008d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa /$fedited by Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (307 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 311 08$a9783319964959 311 08$a331996495X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa -- Section I. Encounters: Texts, Images, and Fiction -- 2. Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari as a Paradigm -- 3. Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism -- 4. Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets -- 5. Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather -- 6. Ingrid de Kok's "A Room Full of Questions" and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 7. Identity, the "Passing" Novel, and the Phenomenology of "Race" -- Section II. Encounters: Spaces of Subjugation and Dominance -- 8. Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu's "Authentic" Zaïre -- 9. World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943-1947 -- 10. A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi's Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System -- 11. The Magical Hour of Midnight: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's Independence Days -- 12. Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience. 330 $aThis book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans-it has merely transferred the benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu's Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies. 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 606 $aAfrica$xHistory 606 $aImperialism 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aAfrican History 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aAfrican Politics 606 $aDevelopment Studies 615 0$aAfrica$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 14$aAfrican History. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aDevelopment Studies. 676 $a320.158096 702 $aKalu$b Kenneth$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aFalola$b Toyin$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484929603321 996 $aExploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa$92854874 997 $aUNINA