Freedom And Authority In French West Africa

Author : Robert Delavignette
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018932
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Authority in French West Africa written by Robert Delavignette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1950 and updated in 1968, this book discusses the functions and status of native chiefs in what were the French colonies in West Africa. It also examines the relation of the French legal code to native law and custom and the activities of Christian missions. Analysing changes which took place in the early 20th century as a result of Africa's entry into the world economy, the book includes proposals for increasing agricultural production and co-operative marketing.

Author : Robert Delavignette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Authority in French West Africa written by Robert Delavignette and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International African Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Authority in French West Africa. By Robert Delavignette. [A Translation of "Service Africain."]. written by International African Institute and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Delavignette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Freedom and Authority in French West Africa written by Robert Delavignette and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor T. Le Vine
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262493
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Politics in Francophone Africa written by Victor T. Le Vine and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the elements that have shaped the particular political dynamics of the 14 former French colonies in west and equatorial Africa while allowing them to remain part of a unique francophone sociopolitical community.

Author : Gary Wilder
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375796
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Time written by Gary Wilder and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived. Refusing to reduce colonial emancipation to national independence, they regarded decolonization as an opportunity to remake the world, reconcile peoples, and realize humanity’s potential. Emphasizing the link between politics and aesthetics, Gary Wilder reads Césaire and Senghor as pragmatic utopians, situated humanists, and concrete cosmopolitans whose postwar insights can illuminate current debates about self-management, postnational politics, and planetary solidarity. Freedom Time invites scholars to decolonize intellectual history and globalize critical theory, to analyze the temporal dimensions of political life, and to question the territorialist assumptions of contemporary historiography.

Author : Tony Chafer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845206304
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Empire in French West Africa written by Tony Chafer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas empire at the end of the Second World War. Yet just fifteen years later France had decolonized, and by 1960 only a few small island territories remained under French control.The process of decolonization in Indochina and Algeria has been widely studied, but much less has been written about decolonization in France's largest colony, French West Africa. Here, the French approach was regarded as exemplary -- that is, a smooth transition successfully managed by well intentioned French politicians and enlightened African leaders. Overturning this received wisdom, Chafer argues that the rapid unfurling of events after the Second World War was a complex , piecemeal and unpredictable process, resulting in a 'successful decolonization' that was achieved largely by accident. At independence, the winners assumed the reins of political power, while the losers were often repressed, imprisoned or silenced.This important book challenges the traditional dichotomy between 'imperial' and 'colonial' history and will be of interest to students of imperial and French history, politics and international relations, development and post-colonial studies.

Author : Francis Terry McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France in Black Africa written by Francis Terry McNamara and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in 1960, France granted independence to its colonies in West and Central Africa-an empire covering an area the size of the contiguous United States-the French still intended to retain influence in Africa. Through a system of accords with these newly independent African nations, based upon ties naturally formed over the colonial years, France has succeeded for three decades in preserving its position in African affairs. The course of Franco-African relations in the near future, though, is less than certain. In this book, Ambassador Francis Terry McNamara outlines France's acquisition and administration of its Black African empire and traces the former colonies' paths to independence. Drawing upon that background, the ambassador examines the structure of post-independence Franco-African relations and recent strains on those relations, especially African economic crises and the French tendency to focus on Europe. Because of those strains, he suggests, France alone may be unable to support its former dependencies much longer. He believes that long-term solutions to African problems will have to involve international organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as well as other nations such as the United States and France's European partners. -- From Foreword.

Author : Mieke van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004321195
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914) written by Mieke van der Linden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used treaties to acquire territory. The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in their expansion of empire.

Author : Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691164142
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States and Power in Africa written by Jeffrey Herbst and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent—is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter to the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything. This revised edition includes a new preface in which the author links the enormous changes that have taken place in Africa over the past fifteen years to long-term state consolidation. The final chapter on policy prescriptions has also been revised to reflect the evolution of African and international responses to state failure.