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This paper seeks to address the problem of strangeness within the context of migration in Africa. I draw on historical realities that inform existing international and African discourses on migration. I hope to show that most African countries have unconsciously bought into international arguments that drive the legitimacy of building walls, visible and invisible, and the promotion of stringent migration policies that minimise the influx of African immigrants. I draw on political and philosophical positions of African thinkers like Kwame Nkrumah, among others, in my theorisation of strangeness and the need to dispel the potential negative conception of strangeness within Africa's migration policies. I juxtapose these positions with Western political theories with the hope of emphasizing African humanism as a key conception worth considering when decolonising borders.

This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renaming, reclassifying, and reimagining colonial identities and spaces. Movements such as #RhodesMustFall in South Africa have sprung up around the world, connected by a history of Black life struggles, erasures, oppression, suppression, and the depression of Black biopolitics. This book provides an important multidisciplinary intervention in the discourse on monuments and memories, asking what they are, what they have been used to represent, and ultimately what they can reveal about past and present forms of pain and oppression. Drawing on insights from philosophy, historical sociology, politics, museum, and literary studies, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars with an interest in the decolonisation of global African history.

1. Introduction -- 2. Reimagining the colonial condition: understanding unhappiness in context to the colonial wound -- 3. Violent Technologies: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis -- 4. Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations -- 5. Corrective Sexual Violence in South Africa: a crime against the deviant Sexualised Other -- 6. Women, violence, and social activism: From Aba women's protest to #EndSARS protests -- 7. An anger-based contextualist account of justifiable violence: An African case study -- 8. Reimagining Civil-Military Relations from a Quadrumvirate Interaction Perspective -- 9. Reading Contemporary Decolonial Iconoclasm in Belgium with Žižek, Yousfi and Fanon -- 10. A postcolonial theory of recognition: Honneth and Fanon on violence and mutual recognition.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Nexus between Nigerian Migrants and the Future of Global Security -- 3. Population Growth and Instability -- 4. The Burden of Religion and the Fear of Islam -- 5. The Future of Global Security -- 6. Mitigating Potential Global Security -- 7. Conclusion.

This book explores the possible (actual, potential and imagined) future security threats migration from Nigeria could pose to Europe, the United States of America, Canada and to some extent Australia. The negative consequences of terrorism, resource curse, extreme poverty, bad governance and illiteracy are highly likely to compound the already existing migration (both legal and illegal migration) from Nigeria to Europe. Given the current nationalist and populist tendencies in the United States of America and many parts of Europe, which have amplified the securitization of migration, the authors argue that the continuous high influx of legal and illegal migrants from Africa is a potential global security case. Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere is Cmelikova Visiting International Scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, USA. He was Senior Member of St Antonys College, and Academic Visitor at the African Studies Centre, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK. John Sodiq Sanni is Lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His research areas include African political philosophy, African philosophy, migration studies, conflict studies, religion and politics, and contemporary philosophy.