- But Africans had their own ideas. Large newly self-conscious ethnicities, substantial expansions of political scale, like the Yoruba of Nigeria, began to acquire political awareness of their own to which colonial rule had to to adjust.
- BUT, when international institutions and Western States changed the rules of commerce in the 1980s, but especially damaging to Africa.
Jean Allman:
Key Point: Examines recent scholarship and values the new interpretation.
- Africanist historians began to focus on lives of ordinary women and men during the colonial period and follow these stories into the era of nationalist mobilisation.
- Demonstrated the authors of national dreams weren't only political parties and their leaders.
- Recent scholarship has even brought into focus new political actors who have seldom been taken very seriously, including the role of youth in both imagining and contesting nation dreams.
Frederick Cooper:
Key Point: in the political imagination of workers, peasants, urban women, we trace modernisation, goals and struggles that do not always fit neatly within the nationalist rubric.
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