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Based around the life of Mademba Seye, an African born in the
colonial town of Saint Louis du Senegal in 1852, who transformed
himself with the help of his French patrons from a telegraph clerk
into an African king, this book examines Mademba's life and career
to reveal how colonialism in French West Africa was articulated
differently at different times and how Mademba survived these
changes by periodically reinventing himself. Investigating
Mademba's alleged abuses of power and crimes that pitted French
colonial indirect rule policy with its foundations in patronage and
loyalty against its stated commitment to the rule of law and the
civilizing mission, Conflicts of Colonialism sheds light on
conflicts between different forms of colonialism and the deep
ambiguities of the rule of law in colonial societies, which,
despite serious challenges to Mademba's rule, allowed him to remain
king until his death in 1918.
A major new approach to the study of the social and economic
history of colonial French West Africa, this book traces French
efforts to establish a cotton export economy in the French Soudan
from the early nineteenth century through the end of World War II.
Cotton cultivation and handicraft cotton textile production had
long been an important part of the indigenous regional economies of
West Africa. During the nineteenth century, the French metropolitan
cotton textile industry developed and expanded, and securing new
sources for raw cotton became a central concern for French
industrialists and the emerging technocratic leadership of the
French state. Controlling the French West Africa cotton harvest
thus became of paramount importance to the French colonial
endeavor.
As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an
interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as
a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African." Africans in
the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of
little official authority, but in practice these positions were
lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among
European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject
populations, these civil servants could manipulate the
intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of
colonial society. By uncovering the role of such men (and a few
women) in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of
colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new
perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony,
collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial
rule, the role of language and education, the production of
knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of
colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status,
and class.
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships
take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the
boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term
domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based
violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between
patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. As a lived
experience and as a social and historical unit of analysis,
domestic violence in colonial and postcolonial Africa is complex.
Using evidence drawn from Subsaharan Africa, the chapters explore
the range of domestic violence in Africa\u2019s colonial past and
its present, including taxation and the insertion of the household
into the broader structure of colonial domination. African
histories of domestic violence demand that scholars and activists
refine the terms and analyses and pay attention to the historical
legacies of contemporary problems. This collection brings into
conversation historical, anthropological, legal, and activist
perspectives on domestic violence in Africa and fosters a deeper
understanding of the problem of domestic violence, the limits of
international human rights conventions, and local and regional
efforts to address the issue.
This is the first comprehensive assessment of the end of slavery in
Africa. Editors Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts, with the
distinguished contributors to the volume, establish an agenda for
the social history of the early colonial period--hen the end of
slavery was one of the most significant historical and cultural
processes. "The End of Slavery in Africa" is a sequel to "Slavery
in Africa," edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff and published
by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1977. The contributors
explore the historical experiences of slaves, masters, and
colonials as they all confronted the end of slavery in fifteen
sub-Saharan African societies. The essays demonstrate that it is
impossible to generalize about whether the end of slavery was a
relatively mild and nondisruptive process or whether it marked a
significant change in the social and economic organization of a
given society. There was no common pattern and no uniform
consequence of the end of slavery. The results of this wide-ranging
inquiry will be of lasting value to Africanists and a variety of
social and economic historians.
Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold
within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This
important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and
children has changed from the aftermath of the "end of slavery" in
Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. The formal
abolition of the slave trade and slavery did not end the demand for
servile women and children. Contemporary forms of human trafficking
are deeply interwoven with their historical precursors, and
scholars and activists need to be informed about the long history
of trafficking in order to better assess and confront its
contemporary forms. This book brings together the perspectives of
leading scholars, activists, and other experts, creating a
conversation that is essential for understanding the complexity of
human trafficking in Africa. Human trafficking is rapidly emerging
as a core human rights issue for the twenty-first century.
Trafficking in Slavery's Wake is excellent reading for the
researching, combating, and prosecuting of trafficking in women and
children. Contributors: Margaret Akullo, Jean Allain, Kevin Bales,
Liza Stuart Buchbinder, Bernard K. Freamon, Susan Kreston, Benjamin
N. Lawrance, Elisabeth McMahon, Carina Ray, Richard L. Roberts,
Marie Rodet, Jody Sarich, and Jelmer Vos.
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the
sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular
discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa,
the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a
complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering
impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal
experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers
contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage
plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and
domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial
slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence,
bondage, slavery, and servile status. Only by examining variations
in practices from a multitude of perspectives can we properly
contextualize the problem and its consequences. And while early and
forced marriages have been on the human rights agenda for decades,
there is today an unprecedented level of international attention to
the issue, thus making the coherent, multifaceted approach of
Marriage by Force? even more necessary.
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships
take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the
boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency. The term
domestic violence encompasses kin-based violence, marriage-based
violence, gender-based violence, as well as violence between
patrons and clients who shared the same domestic space. As a lived
experience and as a social and historical unit of analysis,
domestic violence in colonial and postcolonial Africa is complex.
Using evidence drawn from Subsaharan Africa, the chapters explore
the range of domestic violence in Africa\u2019s colonial past and
its present, including taxation and the insertion of the household
into the broader structure of colonial domination. African
histories of domestic violence demand that scholars and activists
refine the terms and analyses and pay attention to the historical
legacies of contemporary problems. This collection brings into
conversation historical, anthropological, legal, and activist
perspectives on domestic violence in Africa and fosters a deeper
understanding of the problem of domestic violence, the limits of
international human rights conventions, and local and regional
efforts to address the issue.
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the
sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular
discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa,
the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a
complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering
impossible any single interpretation or explanation. The legal
experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers
contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage
plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and
domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial
slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence,
bondage, slavery, and servile status. Only by examining variations
in practices from a multitude of perspectives can we properly
contextualize the problem and its consequences. And while early and
forced marriages have been on the human rights agenda for decades,
there is today an unprecedented level of international attention to
the issue, thus making the coherent, multifaceted approach of
Marriage by Force? even more necessary.
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