Adewale / Schepers Reimaging Africa

Lifting the Veil of Ignorance
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-40360-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 171 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies

This book, through a politico-historical analysis, aims to provide a more balanced perspective regarding the nature of Africa’s relations with other global regions. It emphasizes the sophisticated nature of pre-colonial African politico-historical commentaries often overlooked or simplified. As such, the narrative avoids the usual misrepresentations which impress that African-European interactions are a history of European actions in an Africa generally devoid of anything similar to the cultures, institutions and abilities of Europe. Further, it contests the historical narrative that indigenous Africans have had no real active role vis-à-vis an assertive, dominating Europe in historical times. Within this book, the contestation of such narratives with evidence-based counter perspectives is of particular benefit for our current educational, social and political contexts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adewale, Adeyinka

Schepers, Stefan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction – A Veil of Ignorance

Chapter 2 Pre-colonial Political Order in Africa

Chapter 3 Pillars of Africa’s Ancient Economies

Chapter 4 African Pre-colonial Social and Political Structures

Chapter 5 Colonialism and the Struggle for Independence

Chapter 6 An Interdependency Stuck in the Past

Chapter 7 Facing the Future

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adeyinka Adewale is Associate Professor, Leadership Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.

Stefan A.V.J.G. Schepers is Visiting Professor European Studies at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.