Precolonial and Post Colonial Africa
- Created by: Grace Pengelly
- Created on: 19-12-13 16:24
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- Precolonial and Postcolonial Africa
- Environment as driver of political organisation
- Non hedgmonic confederacies
- Plenty of land
- Kinship > individualism
- Living without state: great European unthinkable!
- War: assimilation not annihalition
- Colonialism
- 14th Century: Dutch Portugese exploration French Portugese civilising mission
- 17th Century: Scramble for Africa Berlin Conference 1885 Commerical Companies
- 18th Cent: 1910 State system covered most territory. Post ww2 Pressure for independence
- Strategies
- Indirect Rule: Britain
- Assimilation: France 'wider france'
- Indirect Rule: Britain
- Supported othering of Africa
- Overdetermined importance of colonial encounter for Africa
- Supports modernist account of the West: Moderntiy replaces tradition
- Revisionist Histories
- Continuities of state in pre, colonial and post colonial africa
- Invention of tradition
- Mamdani, Ranger, Berman
- Herbst: Continuing difficultiy of geography
- African Agency: collaboration and innovation
- Lonsdale, Vaughn.
- Emphasis on diversity of outcome
- Larmer/ African Biographies
- Environment as driver of political organisation
- Environment as driver of political organisation
- Non hedgmonic confederacies
- Plenty of land
- Kinship > individualism
- Living without state: great European unthinkable!
- War: assimilation not annihalition
- 18th Cent: 1910 State system covered most territory. Post ww2 Pressure for independence
- Strategies
- Indirect Rule: Britain
- Assimilation: France 'wider france'
- Indirect Rule: Britain
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