Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African HistoryGerrit Jan Abbink, Mirjam De Bruijn, Klaas Van Walraven Revolts and violence have always been features of African history but questions frequently still remain as to what and who the targets of resistance were. This volume reviews the subject of resistance in the light of current scholarly thought. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? Or did they have purely sociological or religious roots? With contributions from historians, anthropologists and political scientists, Rethinking Resistance analyzes the concepts of resistance, violence and ideological imagination, and has chapters on uprisings and revolts in nineteenth-century pre-colonial societies and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and more recent and contemporary conflicts. |
Contents
An introduction | 1 |
Resistance to Fulbe hegemony in nineteenthcentury West Africa | 43 |
Who resisted what? | 69 |
The Patriots | 87 |
Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern | 117 |
Slave resistance under German | 170 |
The Kawousan War reconsidered | 191 |
Narrative and meaning | 218 |
The vagaries of violence and power in postcolonial Mozambique | 253 |
Politics and memory | 279 |
Selective memories on war | 305 |
Cycles of rebellion | 328 |
List of authors 367 | |
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