BERGHAHN BOOKS : Colonial Intervention And Destabilization Of African Identities

Introduction:Trusteeship and African Identities in a Flux

Part I: Trusteeship, External Forces, and Destabilization of African Identities

Chapter 1. Trusteeship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 2. Framing “Organized Infantilism” and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 3. Muslim Arab Trusteeship and Destabilization of African Identities
Chapter 4. Development of European and Western Trusteeship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 5. Between “Scylla and Charybdis”? Africa-China Relations
Chapter 6. Global Governance or Racialized Imperialism?

Part II: Contemporary Interventions, Destabilization, and Construction of New African Identities

Chapter 7. Institutionalization of Systemic Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 8. State Institutions and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 9. Space Politics as Identity Politics in Urban Planning
Chapter 10. Religious Missionizing or Colonial Intervention?

Conclusion

References
Index

Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African IdentitiesContours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan AfricaObed Mfum-Mensah

200 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80539-843-1 Hb Published (February 2025)

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“This book is one of the most interesting works I have read on Africa. It makes a significant contribution to its diverse literature.” • Martha Donkor, West Chester University

External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans. They employ “trusteeship” and “organized infantilism” as two-pronged colonial intervention tools to keep Africans in subordinated positions by accepting and internalizing those practices as part of the “normal order of things.” This book takes an interdisciplinary approach for examining these different forms of power relations that exploit and dispossess African societies of their resources to accumulate their own wealth.

Obed Mfum-Mensah is Professor of Sociology of Education at Messiah University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently researching on social activism and education policy reforms in southern Africa, postcolonial analysis of education policy and knowledge transfer in sub-Saharan Africa.

Series: Volume 1, African Worlds: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Subject: Political Economy Sociology Development Studies

Area: Africa

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; POL053000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/World/African; POL045000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

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Series: Volume 1, African Worlds: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Subject: Political Economy Sociology Development Studies

Area: Africa

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.