Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History

Contents......Page 6
Maps, figures, tables and photographs......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 Rethinking resistance in African history: An introduction......Page 13
PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 54
2 Resistance to Fulbe hegemony in nineteenth-century West Africa......Page 55
3 Colonial conquest in central Madagascar: Who resisted what?......Page 81
4 Revisiting resistance in Italian-occupied Ethiopia: The Patriots’ Movement (1936-1941) and the redefinition of post-war Ethiopia......Page 99
PART II: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COLONIAL HIERARCHIES......Page 127
5 Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: The Kat River Settlement 1829-1856......Page 129
6 African mutinies in the Netherlands East Indies: A nineteenth-century colonial paradox......Page 153
7 Absence of evidence is no proof: Slave resistance under German colonial rule in East Africa......Page 182
PART III: VIOLENCE, MEANING AND IDEOLOGY IN RESISTANCE......Page 201
8 The Kawousan War reconsidered......Page 203
9 Sawaba's rebellion in Niger (1964-1965): Narrative and meaning......Page 230
10 The vagaries of violence and power in post-colonial Mozambique......Page 265
PART IV: RESISTANCE AS HERITAGE AND MEMORY......Page 290
11 Herero genocide in the twentieth century: Politics and memory......Page 291
12 ‘Namibia, land of the brave’: Selective memories on war and violence within nation building......Page 317
13 Dervishes, moryaan and freedom fighters: Cycles of rebellion and the fragmentation of Somali society, 1900-2000......Page 340
List of authors......Page 379