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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.

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African Studies

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Publié par	CODESRIA
Date de parution	29 décembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9782869787278
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

This book is a product of CODESRIA textbook project

The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa

Edited by Kenneth Omeje

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa DAKAR

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, Angle Canal IV BP 3304 Dakar, 18524, Senegal Website: www.codesria.org

ISBN: 978-2-86978-602-8

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without prior permission from CODESRIA.

Typesetter: Sériane Camara Ajavon Cover Designer: Ibrahima Fofana

Distributed in Africa by CODESRIA Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, Oxford, UK. Website: www.africanbookscollective.com

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is an independent organisation whose principal objectives are to facilitate research, promote research-based publishing and create multiple forums geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers. All these are aimed at reducing the fragmentation of research in the continent through the creation of thematic research networks that cut across linguistic and regional boundaries.

CODESRIA publishesAfrica Development, the longest standing Africa based social science journal;Afrika Zamani, a journal of history; theAfrican Sociological Review; theAfrican Journal of International Affairs;Africa Review of Booksand theJournal of Higher Education in Africa. The Council also co-publishes theAfrica Media Review;Identity, Culture and Politics: An Afro-Asian Dialogue;The African Anthropologist and theAfro-Arab Selections for Social Sciences. The results of its research and other activities are also disseminated through its Working Paper Series, Green Book Series, Monograph Series, Book Series, Policy Briefs and the CODESRIA Bulletin. Select CODESRIA publications are also accessible online at www.codesria.org.

CODESRIA would like to express its gratitude to the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA), the French Ministry of Cooperation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundations (OSFs), Trust Africa, UNESCO, UN Women, the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and the Government of Senegal for supporting its research, training and publication programmes.

Contents

Tables.................................................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgements................................................................................................................ viii Contributors.......................................................................................................................... ix

1. Debating Postcoloniality in Africa ........................................................................... 1 Kenneth Omeje 2. Interrogating Discursive Constructions of African Political History: From the Precolonial to the Postcolonial .............................................................. 29 Raphael Chijioke Njoku 3. Africa in World Politics and the Political Economy of Postcoloniality ............ 45 Dauda Abubakar 4. Oil Conflicts in the Postcolony ............................................................................... 65 Douglas A. Yates 5. Exploring the Conflicts between Traditionalism and Modernism in Postcolonial Africa ................................................................................................ 83 Kenneth Omeje & Chris M. A. Kwaja 6. Postcoloniality, Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding in West Africa: Opportunities and Challenges ............................................................................... 103 John M. Kabia 7. Conflicts and Postcolonial Identities in East/the Horn of Africa ................. 123 Macharia Munene 8. Postcolonial Imperialism in Africa’s Maghreb and Sahel ................................. 143 Jeremy Keenan 9. The Crises of Postcoloniality in Southern Africa: SADC and Conflict Intervention in Zimbabwe ..................................................................................... 161 Martha Mutisi

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10. Postcolonial Politics in Kenya ............................................................................... 183 Moses Onyango 11. Contested Spaces: Gender, Governance and Women’s Political Engagement in Postcolonial Africa ...................................................................... 197 Pamela Machakanja 12. Pan-Africanism and the Crises of Postcoloniality: From the Organization of African Unity to the African Union ............................................................... 217 Tim Murithi

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Rwanda’s Mineral Production, 1995-2000 ............................................ 57 Selected Statistics for Sub-Saharan African Countries Affected by Conflicts .................................................................................................. 58 Coups d’Etat and Civil Wars in African Oil-Rentier States ................ 68 Selected Armed Struggles for Self-Determination in Oil-Rich Regions of African States ......................................................................... 75

Acknowledgements

Responsibility in an academic project of this nature and complexity is usually collective. I am pleased to acknowledge the help I have received from different quarters in the course of initiating, developing and coordinating this book project. My first debts of gratitude go to my ex-colleagues and MA students at the University of Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies where I first developed and taughtPostcoloniality in AfricaThe Crises of as a Module under the Master’s degree programme in African Peace and Conflict Studies in Autumn 2006. The seminal debates I had with my MA students in class were helpful in shaping and fine-tuning my thoughts on this subject. Colleagues like Prof. David Francis and the ex-Head of Department of Peace Studies at Bradford, Dr Davina Miller, deserve special thanks for their support. I am also highly grateful to CODESRIA for providing the enabling research grant, without which this project would probably not have been undertaken, let alone accomplished within a limited timeframe of one year. Ms Virginie Niang, CODESRIA’s Programme Assistant, deserves a special mention for efficiently facilitating the project grant administration. I am exceptionally grateful to my friends and colleagues at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya (Moses Onyango, Doreen Alusa, John Mwangi, Prof. Macharia Munene, Prof. Fredrick Iraki, Prof. James Kahindi, and Prof. Munyae Mulinge) for their professional and moral support. To all the chapter contributors and manuscript reviewers, I say a big thank you for your commitment and professionalism. This is our book – a product of our collective endeavours. I am, as ever, indebted to my loving wife, Ngozi, and children, Rejoicing, Chibia and Ifediche for their unflinching support and understanding. I owe all my professional accomplishments to these four most important pillars of my life. This book is also their book. To my parents, in-laws, close relatives and Christian brethren in Nairobi and Bradford, I convey sincere thanks for your prayers and solidarity.

Kenneth Omeje

Contributors

Dauda Abubakarcurrently teaches in Africana Studies and Political Science Departments at the University of Michigan-Flint. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research agenda interrogates the nexus of identity politics, citizenship rights and democratization in the global South, particularly postcolonial Africa. His professional affiliations include membership in the American Political Science Association, African Studies Association, as well as the International Studies Association, where he has presented many scholarly papers and also chaired panels.

John M. Kabiais a Sierra Leonean scholar and Programme Worker at the UK-based Survivors for Peace, The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. He was previously an Associate Research Fellow at the Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Bradford, UK. John graduated with a PhD in International Politics and Security Studies from the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford in 2006. His latest publications includeHumanitarian Intervention and Conflict Resolution in West Africa: From ECOMOG to ECOMIL(Ashgate, 2009);Dangers of Co-deployment: UN Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa(co-authored with David Francis, Mohamed Faal and Alex Ramsbotham, Ashgate, 2005); and UNAMSIL Peacekeeping and Peace support Operations in Sierra Leone(with Andreau Sola-Martin, Bradford 2007).

Jeremy Keenanis a Social Anthropologist specializing in the anthropology and political economy of conflicts associated with extractive industries in Africa, as well as the current ‘War on Terror’. He is presently a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at Bristol University and Visiting Professor at Exeter University’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS). His publications include several books on the Sahara, notablyAhaggarThe Tuareg: People of ;Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg;The Lesser Gods of the SaharaandThe Sahara: Past, Present and Future. His latest book,Alice in the Sahara: Moving Mirrors and the USA War on Terror in the Sahara(forthcoming, Pluto) details both the way in which the US has fabricated the ‘War on Terror’ across the Sahara and Sahel and its impacts on local peoples.