The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it. A key conceptual rhythm that runs through the various chapters of the book is that, far from being demised, postcoloniality is still firmly embedded in Africa, manifesting itself in both blatant and insidious forms. Among the important themes covered in the book include the concepts of postcolonialism, postcoloniality, and neocolonialism; Africa's precolonial formations and the impact of colonialism; the enduring patterns of colonial legacies in Africa; the persistent contradictions between African indigenous institutions and western versions of modernity; the unravelling of the postcolonial state and issues of armed conflict, conflict intervention and peacebuilding; postcolonial imperialism in Africa and the US-led global war on terror, the historical and postcolonial contexts of gender relations in Africa, as well as pan-Africanism and regionalist approaches to redressing the crises of postcoloniality.

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The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it. A key conceptual rhythm that runs through the various chapters of the book is that, far from being demised, postcoloniality is still firmly embedded in Africa, manifesting itself in both blatant and insidious forms. Among the important themes covered in the book include the concepts of postcolonialism, postcoloniality, and neocolonialism; Africa's precolonial formations and the impact of colonialism; the enduring patterns of colonial legacies in Africa; the persistent contradictions between African indigenous institutions and western versions of modernity; the unravelling of the postcolonial state and issues of armed conflict, conflict intervention and peacebuilding; postcolonial imperialism in Africa and the US-led global war on terror, the historical and postcolonial contexts of gender relations in Africa, as well as pan-Africanism and regionalist approaches to redressing the crises of postcoloniality.

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The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

by Kenneth Omeje
The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

by Kenneth Omeje

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The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa is an assemblage of transdisciplinary essays that offer a spirited reflection on the debate and phenomenon of postcoloniality in Africa, including the changing patterns and ramifications of problems, challenges and opportunities associated with it. A key conceptual rhythm that runs through the various chapters of the book is that, far from being demised, postcoloniality is still firmly embedded in Africa, manifesting itself in both blatant and insidious forms. Among the important themes covered in the book include the concepts of postcolonialism, postcoloniality, and neocolonialism; Africa's precolonial formations and the impact of colonialism; the enduring patterns of colonial legacies in Africa; the persistent contradictions between African indigenous institutions and western versions of modernity; the unravelling of the postcolonial state and issues of armed conflict, conflict intervention and peacebuilding; postcolonial imperialism in Africa and the US-led global war on terror, the historical and postcolonial contexts of gender relations in Africa, as well as pan-Africanism and regionalist approaches to redressing the crises of postcoloniality.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9782869786028
Publisher: Codesria
Publication date: 12/29/2015
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Kenneth Omeje is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bradford's John & Elnora Ferguson Centre for African Studies and Professor of International Relations at the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya.

Table of Contents

1. Debating Postcoloniality in Africa

2. Interrogating Discursive Constructions of African Political History: From the Precolonial to the Postcolonial

3. Africa in World Politics and the Political Economy of Postcoloniality

4.Oil Conflicts in the Postcolony

5. Exploring the Conflicts between Traditionalism and Modernism in Postcolonial Africa

6. Postcoloniality, Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding in West Africa

7. Conflicts and Postcolonial Identities in East/the Horn of Africa

8. Postcolonial Imperialism in Africa’s Maghreb and Sahel

9. The Crises of Postcoloniality in Southern Africa: SADC and Conflict Intervention in Zimbabwe

10. Postcolonial Politics in Kenya

11. Contested Spaces: Gender, Governance and Women’s Political Engagement in Postcolonial Africa

12. Pan-Africanism and the Crises of Postcoloniality: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union

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