Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities: Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa
External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans. They employ “trusteeship” and “organized infantilism” as two-pronged colonial intervention tools to keep Africans in subordinated positions by accepting and internalizing those practices as part of the “normal order of things.” This book takes an interdisciplinary approach for examining these different forms of power relations that exploit and dispossess African societies of their resources to accumulate their own wealth.

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Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities: Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa
External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans. They employ “trusteeship” and “organized infantilism” as two-pronged colonial intervention tools to keep Africans in subordinated positions by accepting and internalizing those practices as part of the “normal order of things.” This book takes an interdisciplinary approach for examining these different forms of power relations that exploit and dispossess African societies of their resources to accumulate their own wealth.

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Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities: Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities: Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Obed Mfum-Mensah
Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities: Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities: Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Obed Mfum-Mensah

Overview

External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans. They employ “trusteeship” and “organized infantilism” as two-pronged colonial intervention tools to keep Africans in subordinated positions by accepting and internalizing those practices as part of the “normal order of things.” This book takes an interdisciplinary approach for examining these different forms of power relations that exploit and dispossess African societies of their resources to accumulate their own wealth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781805398431
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 02/01/2025
Series: African Worlds: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives , #1
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Obed Mfum-Mensah is Professor of Sociology of Education at Messiah University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently researching on social activism and education policy reforms in southern Africa, postcolonial analysis of education policy and knowledge transfer in sub-Saharan Africa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction:Trusteeship and African Identities in a Flux

Part I: Trusteeship, External Forces, and Destabilization of African Identities

Chapter 1. Trusteeship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 2. Framing “Organized Infantilism” and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 3. Muslim Arab Trusteeship and Destabilization of African Identities
Chapter 4. Development of European and Western Trusteeship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 5. Between “Scylla and Charybdis”? Africa-China Relations
Chapter 6. Global Governance or Racialized Imperialism?

Part II: Contemporary Interventions, Destabilization, and Construction of New African Identities

Chapter 7. Institutionalization of Systemic Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 8. State Institutions and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 9. Space Politics as Identity Politics in Urban Planning
Chapter 10. Religious Missionizing or Colonial Intervention?

Conclusion

References
Index

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