What legacies/ideas shaped modern Africa
- Created by: Grace Pengelly
- Created on: 19-12-13 19:34
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- What legacies/ideas shaped modern Africa?
- Colonialism is Everything. Crawford Young
- Because of colonialism "Africa lacks the crucial trait of sovereignty"
- By Western standard, Africa is economic & pol failure
- Africa's current failure traceable to colonial rule
- "Large residues of the African colonial state are everywhere present"
- Eurocentric judgement of Africa: West as "bula matari" he who crushes rocks
- Positive agency argument. Illiffe & Ekeh
- Africans came to manipulate traditions
- Ranger "Invented Traditions"
- British reinforced 'false' customs and introduced new traditions
- Kingship/Monarchical traditions tied Africa to British Monarchy
- Created a weak "civil society" based on regalia for regalia's sake
- Invention of tradition as part of Africas history
- Ranger "Invented Traditions"
- British reinforced 'false' customs and introduced new traditions
- Kingship/Monarchical traditions tied Africa to British Monarchy
- Created a weak "civil society" based on regalia for regalia's sake
- Ranger "Invented Traditions"
- Ranger "Invented Traditions"
- Illiffe
- stresses importance of environment as key political factor
- Ekeh
- Creation of two oublics - civil & primordial.
- Individuals negotiated both
- Creation of unique African politics
- Individuals negotiated both
- Colonialism made an impact, but so did the African response to Colonialism
- Creation of unique African politics
- Creation of two oublics - civil & primordial.
- Africans came to manipulate traditions
- Colonialism doesn't change much. Herbst
- Precolonialism Africa was not a stateless society
- Africa is not a Weberian state@ Herbst challenges Eurocentric state
- Sovreignty based on political geography not law.
- Political control exercised in high pop. desnity e.g Kumasi Ashanti clan
- Coercion key:guns reinforced centralised power
- Colonialism is Everything. Crawford Young
- Africa's current failure traceable to colonial rule
- "Large residues of the African colonial state are everywhere present"
- Eurocentric judgement of Africa: West as "bula matari" he who crushes rocks
- Precolonialism Africa was not a stateless society
- Political control exercised in high pop. desnity e.g Kumasi Ashanti clan
- Invention of tradition as part of Africas history
- Illiffe
- stresses importance of environment as key political factor
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