Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

1. Introduction: Autobiographies, Colonisation and Decolonisation, 2. Autobiography, Self-making and National Be-Coming: From Theory to Practice, 3. Imagining a Continental Statehood: The Autobiographies of Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe, 4. Narrating Violence and Non-Violence as Roadmaps to Nationhood: Not Yet Uhuru (NYU), Strike A Blow and Die (SBD) and Zambia Shall Be Free (ZSBF), 5. Narrating Apartheid State Violence: The Autobiographies of Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela, 6. '"The Negro is not Free"': Visualising a Humane Nationhood in Abrahams' Tell Freedom and Maurice Nyagumbo's With the People, 7. Life Narratives, the Female Voice and the National Liberation Experience: Ruth First's 117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Days Detention Law, 8. Conclusions: Autobiographies, Memories and the Making of Nationhood

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• Estudos regionais
• História africana
• Politica comparada
• Estudos sobre o desenvolvimento
• História do século 20 do pós-guerra, de c 1945 a c 2000
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Libertação nacional e independência, pós-colonialismo
• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Estudos cultirais
• Sociologia

anti-colonial resistance;African political history;liberation movement leaders;postcolonial studies;cultural sovereignty Africa;life writing analysis;decolonisation autobiographical narratives