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The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool
used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers,
refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political
exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient
individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an
exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that
understanding within the global political landscape by considering
the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects
it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume
seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the
continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented
as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared
experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads
exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants
within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global
diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting
political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into
three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography
as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and
performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political
exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial
and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in
Africa.
The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool
used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers,
refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political
exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient
individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an
exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that
understanding within the global political landscape by considering
the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects
it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume
seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the
continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented
as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared
experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads
exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants
within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global
diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting
political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into
three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography
as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and
performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political
exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial
and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in
Africa.
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