Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Editors: Kalu, Kenneth, Falola, Toyin (Eds.)
Free Preview- Examines the history of exploitation in Africa across the colonial and postcolonial periods
- Analyzes how colonial and postcolonial subjugation and misrule is represented in African literature
- Offers case studies of dominance and subjugation that are representative of Africa’s past and present
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- About this book
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This 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.
- About the authors
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Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor of Global Management at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. A celebrated scholar of global stature, Falola has published numerous books and essays in diverse areas.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa
Pages 1-23
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Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari as a Paradigm
Pages 27-50
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Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah’s Consciencism
Pages 51-75
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Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets
Pages 77-99
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Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
Pages 101-124
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
- Editors
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- Kenneth Kalu
- Toyin Falola
- Series Title
- African Histories and Modernities
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-96496-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-96496-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-96495-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07202-5
- Series ISSN
- 2634-5773
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 303
- Topics
