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Index
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Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present
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Contents
Plates
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Maps
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Preface
1 Introduction: from colonies to Third World
The past of the present
The many Africas: locating a space
The many Africas: marking a time
Static visions of dynamic societies: colonial Africa in the 1930s
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2 Workers, peasants, and the crisis of colonialism
The politics of the prosperous peasant
Intellectual linkages
Religion beyond the “tribe”
Men and women, migrancy and militance
Black men and women in a White man’s war
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3 Citizenship, self-government, and development: the possibilities of the post-war moment
Citizens of empire: French Africa, 1944–52
Self-government unbound: the Gold Coast, 1947–51
South Africa: nationalism for Whites and struggle for Blacks
Militance in different keys: Pan-Africanists and prophets
The limits of modernizing imperialism
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4 Ending empire and imagining the future
Redefining political space
The reinvention of savagery and the boundaries of decolonization
The end of empire and the refusal of responsibility
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Interlude: rhythms of change in the post-war world
5 Development and disappointment: social and economic change in an unequal world, 1945–2000
The promise and limits of peasant production
The industrialization that never was
Economics beyond borders
Modest accomplishment and devastating failure
Cities, countryside, and beyond
Decolonizing gender?
Religion in the age of progress and crisis
Conclusion: on blame and debt, on credit and trade
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6 The late decolonizations: southern Africa 1975, 1979, 1994
From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe
Mozambique and Angola
South Africa
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7 The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state
The trials and tribulations of states
Ghana: the pioneer guards the gate
Congo-Zaire: the unguardable gate
Senegal: managing the gate
Nigeria: the excesses of the spigot economy
Kenya: a capitalist alternative?
Tanzania: a radical alternative?
Can the gatekeeper state become democratic?
Other Africas: connections beyond the nation-state
Other Africas: popular culture and political critique
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8 Africa at the century’s turn: South Africa, Rwanda, and beyond
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