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The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 [Paperback]

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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Prestel (2001)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002PF5XHS
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vital, November 26, 2008
Big. 496 pp, over 6 pounds, something like over 500 color and black & white illustrations.

Table of Contents...

Preface
Foreword
Introduction

The Surreptitious Speech, Valentine Mudimbe
Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities, Mahmood Mamdani

ART
Modern African Art, Chika Okeke
Independence and Liberations Movements in Africa, Marilyn Martin
A Moment of Hope: Developments in Nigeria before the First Military Coup, Ulli Beier

CLOTH/POSTERS
Colonial Pretense and African Resistance, or Subversion Subverted: Commemorative Textiles in Sub-Saharan Africa, John Picton

PHOTOGRAPHY
Postcoloniality, Performance, and Photographic Portraiture, Lauri Firstenberg

ARCHITECTURE
City and Citizenships, Rory Bester
The Ambiguous Modernisms of African Cites, Gwendolyn Wright
Architecture and Nationalism in Africa, 1945-1994

MUSIC
Independence, Highlife, Liberations Wars: Lagos 1950's and 1960's, Wolfgang Bender

THEATER/LITERATURE
Theater and the Performance of the Nation in Africa, John Conteh-Morgan
The Anatomy of Resistance in South African theater, Maishe Maponya
Interview with Chinua Achebe, Obiora Udechukwu
The Weapon of Culture: Negritude Literature and the Making of Neocolonial Africa, Chinweizu

FILM
The Modernity of African Cinema, Mark Nash
African Cinema and Decolonization, Manthia Diawara

POLITICS / IDEOLOGY / ETHICS
with contributions by Kwame Nkrumah. Patrice Lumumba, Sekpou Toure, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nelson Mandela, Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Wole Soyinka, Rajat Neogy, et al.

Pan-Africanism
Pan-Arabism
Liberation Movements
African Socialism

CULTURE
Discursive Spaces
Concepts / Debates / Contestations

MANIFESTOS AND RESOLUTIONS

APPENDIX
Chronology
Biographies
List of Works
Index
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