How Britain Subverted and Betrayed British Togoland
Author : Kosi Kedem
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ghana
ISBN :
Author : Kosi Kedem
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ghana
ISBN :
Author : Kate Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1316299570
The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French-administered territories. By the 1950s a political movement led by the Ewe ethnic group called for the unification of British and French Togoland into an independent multiethnic state. Despite the efforts of the Ewe, the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was ultimately merged with the Gold Coast to become Ghana, the first independent nation in sub-Saharan Africa; French Togoland later declared independence as the nation of Togo. Based on interviews with former political activists and their families, access to private papers, and a collection of oral and written propaganda, this book examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland unification. Kate Skinner challenges the marginalization of the Togoland question from popular and academic analyses of postcolonial politics and explores present-day ramifications of the contingencies of decolonization.
Author : Katharine Alexandra Collier Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107074630
The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland reunification, in which the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was to be separated from the Gold Coast to join with French Togoland in a new independent African state.
Author : Derek R. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1316241173
Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disparate fields of study - history, archaeology, linguistics, the performing arts and cinema - to show how the lifeways of the past were made into capital, a store of authentic knowledge that political and cultural entrepreneurs could draw from. This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation, a means by which the relics of the past are shored up, reconstructed and revalued as commodities, as tradition, as morality or as patrimony.
Author : Nathan Riley Carpenter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 025303809X
“This rich volume will interest scholars and students of Africa, the African diaspora, world history, legal history, and international affairs.” —Lorelle Semley, author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire 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.
Author : Apoh, Wazi
Publisher : Sub-Saharan Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9988883048
Chinua Achebe ("The art of fiction”) famously observed that until lions have their own historians “the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” In this volume chronicling the complex imperial and colonial entanglements of the Kpando region in eastern Ghana over recent centuries, the lions have found their proverbial historian. Drawing on an array of sources—archaeological, oral historical and documentary—Wazi Apoh brings locally nuanced perspective to the complex social political economic entanglements among Akpini, German and British actors. His illumination of previously silenced histories provides a rich platform from which to provoke us to imagine and act on the possibilities for restorative repatriation in the present. Its novel combination of historical study with analysis of ongoing dialogues over repatriation is a unique contribution to African studies.
Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107020689
By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.
Author : Alexander Keese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9004307354
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
Author : Derek R. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107094852
This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.
Author : A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1108479359
Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.