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This groundbreaking book makes sense of the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial politics, illustrating how post-colonial theory has marginalised a huge part of its constituency, namely Africa. Politics and Post-Colonial Theory traces how African identity has been constituted and reconstituted by examining issues such as: * negritude * the rise of nationalism * decolonisation. The book also questions how helpful post-colonial analysis can be in understanding the complexities which define institutions including: * the nation-state * civil society * human rights * citizenship. Politics and Post-colonial Theory bravely breaks down disciplinary boundaries. Its radical vision will be essential reading for all those engaged in Politics, post-colonial studies and African studies.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: ASPECTS OF LITERARY THEORY -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER TWO: MARXIST THEORY -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2:2 Marxism Vis-a-Vis the Novel and the Play -- 2:2.1 Class and Political Stability: A Marxist Study of Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile and Safi Abdi's Offspring of Paradise. -- 2:2.2 Marxist Critique of God Dies by the Nile -- 2:2.3 Marxist Critique of Safi Abdi's Offspring of Paradise -- 2.3 Marxist Critique of African Poetry -- 2.4 Marxist Critique of Oral Literature -- 2.5 Marxism and Drama -- 2:5.1 The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a Marxist Propaganda -- 2:6 Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER THREE: THE FEMINIST THEORY -- 3:1 Introduction -- 3:2 Feminism and the Novel -- 3:2.1 Gender Differences in Slave Characters: a Feminist Critique of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, an American Slave -- 3:2.2 Gender Differences in the Narrative of Life Frederic Douglass, an American Slave. -- 3.2.3 Gender Differences in Morrison's Beloved -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 3:6 Feminist Critique of Oral Literature -- 3:6.1 Feminism and Oral narratives -- 3:6.2 Feminism and Riddles -- 3:6.3 Feminism and Oral Poetry -- 3:7 Feminist Critique of Poetry -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER FOUR: Postcolonial Criticism -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Definition of post colonialism -- 4:3 Postcolonialism in the Novel and Drama -- 4:3.1 Oppression and Madness: A Postcolonial Critique of Selected African and American Works of Fiction -- 4:3.1.1 Madness -- 4:3.1.2 Of Alcoholism and Madness in Ruganda's The Burdens -- 4:3.1.3 Powerlessness and Insanity in Imbuga's Betrayal in the City -- 4:3.1.4 Of Racial Otherness and Madness: Examination of Wright's Native Son -- 4:3.1.5 Of Slavery and Madness: Critique of Morrison's Beloved -- 4:3.1.6 Conclusion.

Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the "African" supernatural practice of obeah and the "Indian" mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still relevant to postcolonial power dynamics, as well as justice movements.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Framework and Foundation -- The Effect of Colonial Legacy on African Formal Laws and Other Influences -- Research Methodology and Remaining Chapters -- Notes -- 2 Rule of Law and Africa -- Defining the Rule of Law -- Discussing the Rule of Law in the African Context -- Colonial Legacy and the Rule of Law -- Summary of the Nine Major Driving Forces -- The Constitution -- Legitimacy of the Constitution-Making Process -- Adequate Legal System -- Independent Judiciary -- Police Forces -- Military Forces -- Other Significant Institutions -- Sustainable Development Frustrated -- Language -- Notes -- 3 Ghana: History, Colonial Legacy, and the Rule of Law -- Quick Facts -- The History of Ghana -- Europeans' Arrival -- The British and Colonization -- Agitation for Independence and the Early Postindependence Years -- Ghana After Kwame Nkrumah -- Rule of Law in Ghana -- Several Constitutions Before and After Independence -- Constitution Making and Legitimacy -- A Pluralist Legal System -- Independent Judiciary With a Few Bad Apples? -- Policing in Ghana -- The Ghanaian Military Forces -- Other Institutions and Sustainable Development -- Language in the Courtroom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Kenya: History, Colonial Legacy, and the Rule of Law -- Quick Facts -- Before the Colonialists Came -- British Colonialism -- Postindependent Kenya -- Rule of Law -- Kenyan Constitutions and Constitution Makings -- The British-Inspired Legal System -- Independent Judiciary at Last? -- The Kenya Police -- The Kenya Military -- Other Institutions and Sustainable Development -- Language of the Courtroom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Nigeria: History, Colonial Legacy, and the Rule of Law.

Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gateways and Walls, or the Power and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Metaphors -- I. GATEWAYS AND WALLS: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST -- Clothing the Borders: Dress as a Signifier in Colonial and Post-Colonial Space -- "As Rare as Rubies": Did Salman Rushdie Invent Turkish American-Literature? -- The Bosphorus Syndrome -- Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh -- The Concomitant Spaces of Territory and Writing: Crossing Cultural Divides -- II. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: NATIONS AND CULTURES

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Is Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak? -- What Does "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Say? -- Why Does "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Author's Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Author's Work -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited

The Postcolonial Condition of Names and Naming Practices in Southern Africa represents a milestone in southern African onomastic studies. The contributors here are all members of, and speakers of, the cultures and languages they write about, and, together, they speak with an authentic African voice on naming issues in the southern part of the African continent. The volume's overarching thesis is that names are important yet often underestimated socio-politico-cultural sites on which some of the most significant events and processes in the post-colony can be read. The onomastic topics covered in the book range from the names of traditional healers and male aphrodisiacs to urban landscapes and street naming, from the interface between Chinese and African naming practices to the names of bands of musicians and mini-bus taxis. There is a strong section on literary onomastics which explores how names have been variously deployed by southern African fiction writers for certain semantic, aesthetic and ideological effects. The cultures and languages covered in this volume are equally wide-ranging, and, while some authors focus on single languages and cultures (for example Thembu, Xhosa, Shona), others look at inter-cultural influences such as the influence of the Portuguese and Chinese languages on Shona naming.Written by Professor Adrian KoopmanEmeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis: An Introduction -- CITIZENSHIP AND (ALTERNATIVE) MARKET ECONOMIES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL METROPOLIS -- The Economics of Urban Development for the Postcolonial Poor -- Post-Coloniality, Poetry, and Debt -- Equivocal Identity-Politics in Multi-Cultural London -- POLITICAL CHANGE AND CONTESTED SPACES IN THE AFRICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN METROPOLIS -- Tracing the Rural in the Urban: Re-Reading Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds -- The Representation of Place in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels -- 'Welcome to Johannesburg': Melancholia and Fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 -- Angels in South Africa? Queer Urbanity in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- The Thrust of the City: Penis Fixation in Jude Dibia's Blackbird -- The City, Hyperculturality, and Human Rights in Contemporary African Women's Writing -- THE ASIAN AND SOUTH ASIAN METROPOLISES ON THE MOVE -- Utopian Sights: Re-Inventing the Asian Metropolis -- A City on the Move: Routing Urban Spaces - Literary and Cinematic Representations of Mumbai's Lifeline, the 'Local' Trains -- The Experience of Urban Space in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar -- The Metropolis in the Province: Interrogating the New Postcolonial Literature in India -- 'No One Is India': Literary Renderings of the (Postcolonial) Metropolis in Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha -- The Glocal Metropolis: Tokyo Cancelled, The White Tiger, and Spatial Politics -- Cosmopolitan Poetry from Asian Cities -- REFRAMING THE AUSTRALIAN / CANADIAN (SETTLER) METROPOLIS -- City of Words: Haunting Legacies in Gail Jones's Five Bells -- Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog: History and Identity in the Metropolis of Melbourne

This combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy analyzes the way colonial powers have represented native women in education, and advocates the use of subversive feminist representations of women that recast our understanding of 'difference'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 African Diaspora-African Development Concerns: An Introduction -- 2 Africa and the Project of Modernity: Some Reflections -- 3 The Black Intellectual and the Pan-African Agenda in Languages -- 4 The Language of 'Francophonie' and the Race of the Renaissance: A Commonwealth Perspective -- 5 Communications and Governance in Africa -- 6 Africa and the Search for Political Stability in the New Century -- 7 Benetton™ vs. Kente: The Impact of African Culture and Design on the World Media -- 8 Reading Beyond the Post-Colonial: A Cultural-Socio-Spatial Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index