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Historical Context: The Colonial Legacy
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Historical Problems of Imperial Africa by
In a completely revised version of his ""Problems"" book (originally published in 1970), Professor Collins presents the most important issues in the study of colonial Africa such as: The Partition of Africa;Collaboration or Resistance to European Rule in Africa; Colonial Rule in Africa; Educating the African; Forging a National Identity; and, Exploitation or Development in Africa.
Location: DT29 .H57 2007ISBN: 9781558764316Publication Date: 2007-01-01
The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa by
"The Dark Webs is an intellectual history of colonialism in Africa. The book focuses on ideas espoused by historians and creative writers on various aspects of colonial rule; the sources of the ideas; the vision of a post-colonial society that they created; and a critique of those ideas. Some essays focus on the works of notable scholars such as Ruth First and Ade Ajayi, while some chapters review themes of broad historiographical significance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Location: DT31 .D24 2005ISBN: 0890895821Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Exporting Empire: Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c.1900-1939 by
For Africans, rank and file colonial officials were the most visible manifestation of British imperial power. But in spite of their importance in administering such vast imperial territories, the attitudes of officials who served between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War, as well as what shaped such attitudes, have yet to be examined in any systematic way.In this original and revisionist work, Prior draws upon an enormous array of private and official papers to address some key questions about the colonial services. How did officials' education and training affect the ways that they engaged with Africa? How did officials relate to one another? How did officials seek to understand Africa and Africans? How did they respond to infrastructural change? How did they deal with anti-colonial nationalism? This work will be of value to students and lecturers alike interested in British, imperial and African history.
Location: DT32.5 .P75 2013ISBN: 9780719083686Publication Date: 2013-02-01European Hegemony and African Resistance, 1880-1990 by The main thrust of this study is that throughout the process of partition, African nations tried hard to check the tidal wave of European assault. What served as the decisive factor in these encounters were the superiority of Europeans' weapons, in addition to such factors as fraudulent treaties of friendship, the role of missionaries and traders, divide-and-conquer strategies, and direct military interventions.
Location: DT31 .C515 2004ISBN: 0773464867Publication Date: 2003-01-01
The Making of Citizen and Subject in Contemporary Africa by
In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.
Location: JV246 .M35 1996ISBN: 0691011079Publication Date: 1996-04-21
Africa since 1940 by
Frederick Cooper's book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa is part of the textbook series New Approaches to African History. This text will help students understand the historical process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. Bridging the divide between colonial and post-colonial history, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious leaders and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked, and interacted with each other.
Location: Note: located in Reserve RoomISBN: 0521772419Publication Date: 2002-10-10
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The African State System in Post-colonial period.
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The African State by
The African state is more essential than ever for the sustainability of the long march towards political, economic, and cultural development. This volume captures the diversity of African states and leadership by examining eight states from northern, western, eastern, and southern Africa. Contributing African scholars transcend current thinking on the nature of the state and its role in transforming the fortunes of the continent. They establish a conceptual framework that allows for a complex but concrete and integrated analysis of the African state. Leader, regime, administration, and commonwealth provide the four key factors for identification of state types in Africa. Different combinations of these factors produce various types of states ranging from Botswana's relatively integral political system to the "cadaverous" Somali state. States examined in this collection include: Botswana Ethiopia Ghana Libya Nigeria South Africa Sudan All of the book's contributors have done substantial scholarly works on their respective countries. Their essays provide practical means of assessing reform programs intended to enhance state effectiveness. This book will be of great value not only to scholars, but also to policy makers and others concerned with the construction of a positive future for the African continent.
Location: JQ1875 .A743 2002ISBN: 9780325070988Publication Date: 2002-10-01
The State in Africa : the politics of the belly by Location: JQ1879.A15B3713 1993ISBN: 9780582064225Publication Date: 1993
State Building and Democratization in Africa by
Deals with democratization efforts in Africa and how progress or lack of it affects the process of state building in the continent. Authors do not share the same views on the appropriate level of state intervention in economic activity and the feasibility for Africa of the development ideology corre
Location: JQ1875 .S7 1999ISBN: 0275963535Publication Date: 1999-01-30
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa by Location: JQ1875 .P635 1999ISBN: 9780333694756Publication Date: 1999-08-01
Making Nations, Creating Strangers by
Who belongs to the nation? How is citizenship defined? And why have such identities become so politically explosive in recent years? This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract recent political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa. Conflicts which have arisen over the resources of the post-colonial state are increasingly legitimated through recourse to claims of nationhood and citizenship. The contributors address the historical roots of national and ethnic identities, the material and symbolic resources which are contested within states, and the relative importance of elite manipulation and subaltern agency.
Location: DT30.5 .M35 2007ISBN: 9789004157903Publication Date: 2007-05-11
Reconstituting the State in Africa by
Contributors to this volume highlight the failure and socio-economic and political problems of post-colonial African state and make constructive and convincing suggestions of how the problems can be addressed. They do not argue for the scrapping of the state but its reconstitution in ways that will enable it to be people's-oriented.
Location: JQ1875 .R425 2007ISBN: 9781403973139Publication Date: 2007-04-12
The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa by Location: DT30.5 .C75 2015ISBN: 9782869786028Publication Date: 2015
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The Political Economy of African States
The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa by
While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.
Location: OnlineISBN: 9781136683800Publication Date: 2013-06-07
The African Economy and Its Role in the World Economy by
In a broad survey this issue of Current African Issues presents a multifaceted picture of the current state of the African economy. After a period of falling per capita incomes that started in the 1970s, Africa finally saw a turnaround from about 1995. The last few years have seen average per capita incomes in Africa grow by above 3 per cent per year on average, partly due to the resource boom but also due to improved economic policies. Africa receives more aid per capita than any other major region in the world and there is a significantly positive effect of aid on growth One of the most notable aspects of the current process of globalisation is the increase in trade between Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, particularly China and India. The authors conclude with a call for policy coherence among donors. The politically most problematic areas for policy change of those discussed in the paper are not aid policy but trade policy and the European Union CAP (Common Agricultural Policy). This is a challenge to EU policy makers, since the latter areas are probably the most important to change if we take our commitment to development seriously. ARNE BIGSTEN is professor of development economics and DICK DUREVALL is a lecturer in economics, both at the Gothenburg University School of Business, Economics and Law.
Location: African Studies Library Stacks HC800 .B526 2008ISBN: 9789171066251Publication Date: 2008-11-01
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 by
This book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and pressure groups, clientelism within the state elite, ideological factors and low state capacity have resulted in some limited reform, but much prevarication and manipulation of the reform process, by governments that do not really believe that reform will be effective.
Location: HC800 .V357 2001ISBN: 9780521803649Publication Date: 2001-09-24
Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa by
"This is useful work which develops interesting ideas, derived from a neoclassical approach to political economy, within the context of the political events of the Africa of the early 1990's." -- African Affairs. Contributors are Robert H. Bates, Barbara Grosh, Michael Bratton, Nicolas van de Walle, Richard Westebbe, Mwesiga Baregu, Jennifer A. Widner, Jeffrey Herbst, Donald Rothchild, Crawford Young, and Ernest J. Wilson III.
Location: African Studies Library Stacks JQ1875 .E265 1994ISBN: 9780801847585Publication Date: 1994-04-01
The Political Economy of Africa by
The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent's economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that have often ignored Africa's diversity in their rush to peddle simple nostrums of dubious merit. The book addresses the seemingly intractable economic problems of the African continent, and traces their origins. It also brings out the instances of successful economic change, and the possibilities for economic revival and renewal. As well as surveying the variety of contemporary situations, the text will provide readers with a firm grasp of the historical background to the topic. It explores issues such as: employment and poverty social policy and security structural adjustment programs and neo-liberal globalization majority rule and democratization taxation and resource mobilization. It contains a selection of country specific case studies from a range of international contributors, many of whom have lived and worked in Africa. The book will be of particular interest to higher level students in political economy, development studies, area studies (Africa) and economics in general.
Location: African Studies Library Stacks HC800 .P638 2010ISBN: 9780415480383Publication Date: 2010-06-22
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Ideology and Development in Africa by Location: African Studies Library Stacks ; DT30.5 .Y68 1982ISBN: 9780300027440Publication Date: 1982-03-01
