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Author : Harry Gamble
Release : 2021-06
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 97X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contesting French West Africa by : Harry Gamble
Download or read book Contesting French West Africa written by Harry Gamble. This book was released on 2021-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Gamble examines the controversies of political and educational reform in French West Africa from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Author : Claire Griffiths
Release : 2013-06-30
Genre : African literature (French)
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Book Rating : 535/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa by : Claire Griffiths
Download or read book Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa written by Claire Griffiths. This book was released on 2013-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Senegal in the west to the Comoros islands in the east, this collection of essays casts a critical eye over fifty years of 'independence' in former French colonial possessions of Africa and the Indian Ocean. With methods and perspectives that cross traditional disciplinary barriers, Contesting Historical Divides in Francophone Africa proposes fresh insights into the process of decolonisation in this part of the world.
Author : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Release : 2022-06-30
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 859/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Against Decolonisation by : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Download or read book Against Decolonisation written by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. This book was released on 2022-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds ‘decolonisation’ of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society’s foundations. Worst of all, today’s movement attacks its own cause: ‘decolonisers’ themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today’s ‘decolonisation’ truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò’s is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
Author : Claire H. Griffiths
Release : 2010-12-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 840/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Globalizing the Postcolony by : Claire H. Griffiths
Download or read book Globalizing the Postcolony written by Claire H. Griffiths. This book was released on 2010-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and social development and gender in the developing areas, which began systematically in 1990 and which has provided a framework for policy-making in this field. This study analyzes current thinking on the challenges facing gender and development in Africa, before moving on to examine the historical factors marking the gender and development profile of the francophone West African region. Through an analysis of gender politics in the region from pre-colonial to postcolonial times, the book examines the gradual incursion of exogenous gender policies into the region throughout the 20th century.
Author : Ruth Ginio
Release : 2017-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 397/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The French Army and Its African Soldiers by : Ruth Ginio
Download or read book The French Army and Its African Soldiers written by Ruth Ginio. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 Adjusting to a New Reality: The Army and the Imminent Independence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
