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Who Owns Africa?
Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble
2022 || Paperback || Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina || Leuven University Press
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states.
Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplina...
Unfinished Histories
Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium
2022 || Paperback || Pierre-Philippe Fraiture || Leuven University Press
Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book explores how the imperial past has lived on in Belgium, but also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. The contributing authors approach colonial legacies from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine how literature, politics, the arts, the press, cinema, museal practices, architecture, and language policies – but also justice and ethics – h...