Africa's Long Road Since Independence - The Many Histories of a Continent - E-book - ePub

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Keith Somerville

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'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but... Lire la suite
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'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa.
The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    26/01/2017
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-0-14-198410-0
  • EAN
    9780141984100
  • Format
    ePub
  • Nb. de pages
    496 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages
      496
    • Protection num.
      Contenu protégé

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