Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Somerville, Keith
Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Somerville, Keith

Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent

Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many - histories that...
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Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Somerville, Keith

Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent

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Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent by Somerville, Keith

Africa's Long Road Since Independence: The Many Histories of a Continent

CHF 59.61
Author: Keith Somerville
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 saga of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems, but also progress. 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, with an introductory chapter about pre-colonial societies, slavery and colonial occupation. But the thrust of the book looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and the beginning of the new millennium. While this book examines post-colonial conflicts within and between new states, it also considers the history of the peoples of Africa - their struggle for economic development in the context of harsh
local environments and the economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule is charted in detail. 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 set up by colonial powers will be examined in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.


Author: Keith Somerville
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: 03/01/2016
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781849045155

About the Author

A career journalist with the BBC World Service and BBC News for three decades, specializing in Africa, Keith Somerville writes and lectures on African affairs and is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. His books include Radio Propaganda and the Broadcasting of Hatred.



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