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Postcolonial Identities in Africa (Paperback)
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Postcolonial Identities in Africa (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonial Encounters
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In this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists
and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a
radical break with much conventional wisdom in postcolonial
discourse to explore contemporary African identities in transition.
They look at the colonial legacy and how colonial identities are
being reconstructed in the face of deepening social inequality
across the continent. They ask how the postcolonial imagination as
a highly specific, locally created and historical force
reconfigures personal knowledge and how that reconfiguration shapes
the moral and religious realities around the uses and abuses of
postcolonial power. Using case-studies, the book explores why
postcolonial studies has to enunciate and interpret the distinctive
languages of identity politics in all the cultural richness of
their specific metaphors. It asks whether the very idea of the
postcolonial conceals the continued dependence of African
countries? Is the postcolonial thus merely a neo-colonial
mystification, a Eurocentric product of Western scholarship in
collusion with Western imperialism?
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