Title: The dark webs : perspectives on colonialism in Africa /
Authors: Falola, Toyin
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Colonies Africa Historiography.; Imperialism Historiography; Postcolonialism Africa Historiography.; Africa Colonization Historiography.; Africa Colonial influence Historiography.
Abstract: "The Dark Webs is an intellectual history of colonialism in Africa. The book focuses on ideas espoused by historians and creative writers on various aspects of colonial rule; the sources of the ideas; the vision of a post-colonial society that they created; and a critique of those ideas. Some essays focus on the works of notable scholars such as Ruth First and Ade Ajayi, while some chapters review themes of broad historiographical significance."--Jacket.
Contents: "Brute blood of the air" : context and change. "Grean wings beating still" : Africa and the colonial legacy / Toyin Falola -- Cultural nationalist ideas / Ehiedu G. Iweriebor -- The 1947 "Cohen" constitutional proposal and 'planned decolonization' / Chidiebere Nwaubani -- The African diaspora, pan-Africanism and anticolonial ideologies / Hakim Adi -- The Igala response to colonial destabilization and fragmentation / Anthony Agbali -- Ethiopianism in African Christianity / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Rent seeking and policing in colonial Africa / John Mukum Mbaku & Mwangi S. Kimenyi -- Niger delta : transAtlantic reflections on the colonial mirror / Cyril I. Obi -- "A sudden blow" : texts and creativity. White Orpheus? : expiation and the post-apartheid imagination / Page R. Laws -- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o on colonial and neo-colonial Kenya / Olayemi Akinwumi -- Micere Mugo, history, and the quest for justice and human rights / Olayinka Agbetuyi -- Degrees of coloniality in fiction from Africa / Brian Worsfold -- Colonialims, ecriture engagée, and Africa's new intellectuals / Pius Adesanmi -- Mudimbé : history, autobiography, and philosophy / Edgard Sankara -- "The broken wall" : scholars and their reflections. Kenneth Onwuka Dike / Apollos O. Nwauwa -- Ruth First and Olive Schreiner / Barbara Harlow -- Bethwell Allan Ogot / Ann Genova -- A. Adu Boahen / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry -- J.F. Ade Ajayi / Kirsten V. Walles -- Cheikh Anta Diop / Ann Cooper -- Robert Mugabe / Osarhieme Benson Osadolor.