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Book SynopsisThis work provides insights into important moments in the European colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers of Africa''s socio-political structures. It reveals the indispensability of the African peoples, their pre-colonial establishments, and knowledge of the colonial encounter. The book also clarifies the significant impact that African people''s choices, chances, mistakes, and internal politics had in structuring their colonial experience and European dominance. Colonized Africans and colonizing Europeans had to negotiate the nature of their relationship: the grid, nexus, and hierarchy of colonial power and authority were constantly under construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. African Agency and European Colonialism expounds upon these beclouded features of Africa''s engagement of colonialism. It is appropriate for students, scholars, political analysts, sociologists, and other prof
Trade ReviewPaul Lovejoy presents a brief but intriguing study of northern Nigeria at the end of the nineteenth century and Alhaji Ahmad el-Fellati's role in increasing the influence of the Tijaniyya, which then became the dominant Islamic brotherhood during the colonial period. Staying in Nigeria, Chima J. Korieh presents an illuminating essay on women's protests against taxation that forced administrators to concede so as to be able to maintain order in the eastern part of the colony. Uyilawa Usunlele and Victor Osaro Edo unveil the tactic of flight that some Beninese used to escape into Nigeria and avoid European rule well into the 1930s, while Pule Phoofolo's piece on Basotho relations with the British show just how beholden the latter were to African leaders in the 1890s. These chapters demonstrate that colonial encounters were often shaped by multiple forces rather than dichotomously, and remind us not to be deceived by simplistic portrayals of African history, such as the many maps depict tidy borders crisscrossing the continent during the colonial period. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online, November 2009 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Figures Part 2 Foreword by Professor Martin A. Klein Part 3 Preface Part 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Hakeem I Tijani Chapter 6 Tamba E. M 'bayo Chapter 7 Paul E. Lovejoy Chapter 8 Gerald Chikozho Mazarire Chapter 9 Uyilawa Usuanlele & Victor Osaro Edo Chapter 10 Pule Phoofolo Chapter 11 Mohammed Bashir Salau Chapter 12 Chima J. Korieh Chapter 13 Clapperton Mavhunga Chapter 14 Metasebia Woldemariam Chapter 15 Femi J. Kolapo Part 16 Appendix: A. S. Kanya-Forstner's Curriculum Vitae (Excepted) Part 17 Notes Part 18 Bibliography Part 19 Index Part 20 Contributors
