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Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora (Paperback)
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Oppression and Resistance in Africa and the Diaspora (Paperback)
Series: Global Africa
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Africa's modern history is replete with different forms of
encounters and conflicts. From the fifteenth century when millions
of Africans were forcefully taken away as slaves during the
infamous Atlantic slave trade; to the colonial conquests of the
nineteenth century where European countries conquered and
subsequently balkanized Africa and shared the continent to European
powers; and to the postcolonial era where many African leaders have
maintained several instruments of exploitation, the continent has
seen different forms of encounters, exploitations and oppressions.
These encounters and exploitations have equally been met with
resistance in different forms and at different times. The mode of
Africa's encounters with the rest of the world have in several
ways, shaped and continue to shape the continent's social,
political and economic development trajectories. Essays in this
volume have addressed different aspects of these phases of
encounters and resistance by Africa and the African Diaspora. While
the volume document different phases of oppression and conflict, it
also contains some accounts of Africa's resistance to external and
internal oppressions and exploitations. From the physical guerilla
resistance of the Mau Mau group against British colonial
exploitation in Kenya and its aftermath, to efforts of the Kayble
group to preserve their language and culture in modern Algeria; and
from the innovative ways in which the Tuareg are using guitar and
music as forms of expression and resistance, to the modern ways in
which contemporary African immigrants in North America are coping
with oppressive structures and racism, the chapters in this volume
have examined different phases of oppressions and suppressions of
Africa and its people, as well as acts of resistance put up by
Africans.
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