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The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent; constituting "distributed presence," which allows for "action at a distance." As a result, colonial subjects became willing participants in these processes, unbeknownst to them, which perpetuated their own colonialism. The book exposes forms of colonialism where manufactured consent is used to perpetuate colonialism. Trapped in this capitalist, Western, Christian language and moral world order without sovereignty, African countries continuously sink deeper into the colonial quagmire.
List of contents
Contents
Chapter 1: How and why is colonialism a contract?, Everisto Benyera
Chapter 2 The Black and the Colonial Contract, Tendayi Sithole
Chapter 3: Unravelling the Paradigm of War Embedded in the Colonial Contract of Palestine: Contemporary Zionist Colonialism as an Extension of Global Islamophobia, Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay
Chapter 4: Contract farming as covert perpetuation of colonial capitalist hegemony? The Zimbabwe context, Tom Tom & Knobby Tomy
Chapter 5: Post- Independent African Leadership and the Paradox of Global Political Economy: The Zimbabwean Experience Under Mugabe, Washington Mazorodze
Chapter 6: The Zimbabwe Post-2000 'Illegal' Sanctions: The Cost of Rejecting the Colonial 'Contract'?, Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
Chapter 7: Reclaiming Africa's Space and Development through Indigenous Knowledge Systems?: A Focus on Zimbabwe, Tom Tom
Chapter 8: 'State-Capture' of Indigenous Knowledge: Lived Experiences of Forest-Dependent Nigeria with Coloniality, Godwin Etta Odok
Chapter 9: Claims and Counterclaims: Rewriting Gaza in the 21st Century, Charles Pfukwa
Chapter 10: Continuity, Discontinuity and Change towards a Decolonial World Order: Africa's Challenges and Opportunities, Torque Mude
Chapter 11: Moulding African Personality Through Reclaiming Physical and Intellectual Space, Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Alexander Madanha Rusero, & Joseph Ngoaketsi
Chapter 12: Unshackling the future: emancipatory struggles of the global South, Pascah Mungwini
Chapter 13: Democratic Peace Theory nexus sustainable peace among Great Lakes region: Linking theory to realities of Rwanda-Uganda relations, Paul Mulindwa
Chapter 14: Towards autonomous decolonial futures: Using the master's tool to destroy the master's house, Everisto Benyera
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Everisto Benyera - Contributions by Everisto Benyera; Tendayi Sithole; Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay; Tom Tom; Knobby Tomy; Washington Mazorodze; Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba; Godwin Etta Odok; Charles Pfukwa; Torque Mude; Collence Takaingenhama Chisita; Alex
Summary
The book characterizes colonialism as a duress contract entered into by the colonized and enforced by the colonizers. The contributors argue that the colonial "contract" must be voided because of the dehumanization and oppression implied. Only when unmasked and fully comprehended can colonialism be halted.
