The coming of colonialism to Subsaharan Africa generated many forces that historians often describe in abstract terms: peasantization, leadership, nationalism and even colonialism. Such terms often hide or overwhelm the individual experiences of those who, in some way, contributed to the development and demise of colonial Africa. These 'agents' of empire - intellectuals and peasants, chiefs and ex-slaves, nationalists and colonial officials - symbolise the ambiguities of and limitations on colonial power. Agency and Action in Colonial Africa attempts to capture their role.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2001

ISBN

9780230288485

Topic

History

Subtopic

African History

Index

History

Cover
Agency and Action in Colonial Africa
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: John Flint and Agency in History
Chapter 1 Faku, the Mpondo and Colonial Advance in the Eastern Cape,1834–53
Chapter 2 ‘Scientific Gold’: Robert Koch and Africa, 1883–1906
Chapter 3 Colonial Commandants and the Administration of Slavery Policy in French West Africa
Chapter 4 Slavery, Sorcery and Colonial‘Reality’ in Mauritania, c. 1910–60
Chapter 5 You Are Tearing My Skirt’:Labotsibeni Gwamile LaMdluli1
Chapter 6 A Christian, Civilized Man:D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa1
Chapter 7 Creech Jones and African Universities, 1943–50
Chapter 8 Chiefs and the Making of Industrial Policy in Nigeria
Chapter 9 Critical Agents: Colonial Nigerian Intellectuals and their British Counterparts
Chapter 10 Rebellion and Quiescence: Kenyan and Rhodesian Responses to Forced Removals in the 1950s
Chapter 11 Hastings Banda and Cold War Politics in Malawi
Index