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Africa After Independence

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Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Press
Release Date : 2006

Africa After Independence written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and has been published by New Africa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

This work focuses on the early years of independence and the problems African countries faced soon after the end of colonial rule. Many of those problems still exist today. They include poverty and underdevelopment; adoption of alien ideologies and economic and political systems; structural flaws of the modern African state and its institutions inherited at independence; nation-building, democratization, national integration, and ethnoregional rivalries among others. It is also a historical study of the continent since the partition of Africa by the imperial powers and of the struggle for independence. It also focuses on the continent's demographic composition, shedding some light on the complexity and diversity of the world's second largest continent. The history of Africa's indigenous peoples and their earliest contact with foreigners provides a background to this telescopic survey. The sixties was one of the most important decades in the history of Africa and this work provides a balanced perspective on those years when Africans celebrated the end of colonial rule on their continent. It is a compact study covering a vast expanse of territory from the advent of imperial rule to the attainment of sovereign status for African countries during the sixties and the problems they faced in those years. As a demographic portrait, it excels in depicting the continent as a tapestry that reflects the racial diversity and multiethnic composition of this vast land mass, the second largest after Asia. And as a historical and political analysis, it addresses some of the most important issues in the post-colonial era including the Cold War, with the Congo figuring prominently in the analysis as thefirst theatre of combat and super-power rivalry in the early sixties on the African continent. The dawn of freedom provided opportunities and challenges for the young African nations as they tried to modernize and consolidate their independence in a world dominated by major powers and contending ideologies. It was a rude awakening to the harsh realities of nationhood. One of these was the desire by the major powers to turn African countries into client states as the two ideological camps, East and West, competed for world domination. As Julius Nyerere warned, "We are not going to allow our friends to choose our enemies for us." One of the most contentious grounds for this hegemonic control was, of course, the Congo, right in the middle of the continent. It became the bleeding heart of Africa as the country was turned into a combat theatre mainly between the surrogate forces of the West and the Congolese nationalist forces supported by a number of African countries and by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The Congo imbroglio since the turbulent sixties mainly as a result of foreign intrigue and intervention is one of the most important subjects addressed in this book. And it raises serious questions that have profound implications even today for a continent mired in conflict; this time ignited by the Africans themselves in many - but not in all - cases. Yet, prospects for the world's poorest and most embattled continent are not bleak if Africans seek their own solutions to their own problems in this post-Cold War era of globalization dominated by the industrialized nations. The book includes many photos from the early sixties, the dawn of a new era when Africancountries won independence, which Oginga Odinga described as "Not Yet Uhuru."

Africa S Long Road Since Independence

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Author : Keith Somerville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-01-26

Africa S Long Road Since Independence written by Keith Somerville and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with History categories.

'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.

Iron Age To Independence

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Author : D. E. Needham
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1974

Iron Age To Independence written by D. E. Needham and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.

Towards Independence In Africa

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Author : Patrick Walker
language : en
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
Release Date : 2009-08-15

Towards Independence In Africa written by Patrick Walker and has been published by Radcliffe Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Politics were often turbulent in African countries in the period leading to their independence in the 1950s and beyond. But for Ugandans and the Colonial Administration alike this was a time of hope and optimism -- though fears for the future of the 'Westminister Model, ' nurtured so carefully by the Colonial Administration, were never absent. Already there were dark clouds of future tragedy over the neighboring Congo and Rwanda. Patrick Walker, who was a District Officer in the region, draws on his vivid personal experience to illustrate both the hope and tragedy of that tempestuous time. Posted to Uganda in 1956, he served in both the Eastern and Western Provinces. His first experience of national politics was the General Election of 1958 and he played a leading role in organizing and supervising subsequent elections including, in his district, the Election of 1962. However, despite an apparently tranquil march to independence and statehood, Uganda was not to escape Africa's turmoil. Independence in the Congo brought a flood of Belgian refugees into Uganda in 1960, followed by the Tutsis -- the former dominant group in Rwanda -- fleeing the Hutu majority following Rwanda's independence in 1962. All these different groups had to be settled and administered, and Patrick Walker takes the reader to the heart of these tragedies -- with ominous warnings of future ethnic and tribal conflict. This is an important memoir which will be of the greatest possible interest to historians of Africa and the British Empire as well as of Uganda itself.

From Colonialism To Independence

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Author : M. S. M. Semakula Kiwanuka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

From Colonialism To Independence written by M. S. M. Semakula Kiwanuka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Africa categories.

Africa S Struggle For Independence

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Author : Warren J. Halliburton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Africa S Struggle For Independence written by Warren J. Halliburton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.

Examines the history of the independence movement in Africa, from the European colonization of the continent to the present.

Decolonization In Africa

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Author : John D. Hargreaves
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-30

Decolonization In Africa written by John D. Hargreaves and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with History categories.

John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are seen here in the wider context of changing international relationships.

Recounts the heroic struggles that resulted in freedom for all the colonies in Africa

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