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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies that complicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.
Overall, Africans in Exile provides an abundance of well-researched, engaging studies thatcomplicate the notion of exile and push the boundaries of the archive in ways that will be particularly useful to scholars of colonial Africa.
* H-Africa *
This book contributes significantly to African Studies as a field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to better understand exile as a diverse yet defining feature of our age.
-- Christian A Williams - University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa * African Studies Review *
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
Foreword: Holger Bernt Hansen
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile
Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile
1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra
2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg
3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter
4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet
5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry
6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett Shadle
Part Two: Geographies of Exile
7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague
8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly
9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner
10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker
11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith Terretta
Part Three: Remembering and Performing Exile
12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet
13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara
14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman
15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall
16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. Lawrance
Epilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh Jallow
Afterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. Burrill
Notes on Contributors
Index
