Trade Unionism in French-speaking West Africa During the Colonial Period
Author: George R. Martens
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13:
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Politics in Francophone Africa
Author: Victor T. Le Vine
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781588262493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the elements that have shaped the particular political dynamics of the 14 former French colonies in west and equatorial Africa while allowing them to remain part of a unique francophone sociopolitical community.
The French Army and Its African Soldiers
Author: Ruth Ginio
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0803253397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK7 Adjusting to a New Reality: The Army and the Imminent Independence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
French Colonialism Unmasked
Author: Ruth Ginio
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 080325380X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the Vichy regime, there was ostensibly only one France and one form of colonialism for French West Africa (FWA). World War II and the division of France into two ideological camps, each asking for legitimacy from the colonized, opened for Africans numerous unprecedented options. French Colonialism Unmasked analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. Ruth Ginio shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in fwa. She describes the intriguing encounters between the colonial regime and African society along with the responses of different sectors in the African population to the Vichy policy. Although French Colonialism Unmasked focuses on one region within the French Empire, it has relevance to French colonial history in general by providing one of the missing pieces in research on Vichy colonialism. Ruth Ginio is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of articles in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Cahiers d'etudes africaines, and several other journals.
Decolonization and African Society
Author: Frederick Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-08-28
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9780521566001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.
Industrial Relations in Africa
Author: Ukandi G Damachi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1979-09-13
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1349161659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIslamization from Below
Author: Brian J. Peterson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0300152736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian J. Peterson considers for the first time how and why rural peoples in West Africa "became Muslim" under French colonialism.Peterson rejects conventional interpretations that emphasize the roles of states, jihads, and elites in "converting" people, arguing instead that the expansion of Islam owed its success to the mobility of thousands of rural people who gradually, and usually peacefully, adopted the new religion on their own. Based on extensive fieldwork in villages across southern Mali (formerly French Sudan) and on archival research in West Africa and France, the book draws a detailed new portrait of grassroots, multi-generational processes of Islamization in French Sudan while also deepening our understanding of the impact and unintended consequences of colonialism.
Trade Unionism in Africa
Author: Jean Meynaud
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-03-22
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0192802488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Author: Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2017-03-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1911307746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
