Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
SAGE publications
Abstract
Daily life in contemporary African countries must be understood as determined by their status as members of an interlocking network of postcolonies, striving to imagine themselves as related through Pan-Africanism but struggling first to realize themselves as fully functioning nations. Even though Ethiopia and Liberia are generally spoken of as the only countries in Africa that were not colonized, this actually suggests the level of subjugation the rest of the continent did experience. After all, if Italy failed in its attempt to take over Ethiopia in the 1880s, Mussolini succeeded in doing so in 1936; Liberia was, in fact, a colony for several decades, created in 1822 by the American Society for Colonization of Free People of Color of the United States as a destination for freed American slaves.
Chapter of
Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa
Editor
Edward Ramsamy
Andrea L. Stanton
Peter J. Seybolt
Carolyn Elliott
Recommended Citation
Hawley, J. C. (2012) “Colonialism and Mandates,” Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, eds. Edward Ramsamy, Andrea L. Stanton, Peter J. Seybolt, and Carolyn Elliott. Sage.Vol. 2: 245-48.
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African History Commons, African Studies Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, European History Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
Comments
Copyright © 2012 SAGE publications. Reprinted with permission.