Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

1. Introduction: Exploitation, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Misrule in Africa.- Section I. Encounters: Texts, Images, and Fiction.- 2. Rupturing Neocolonial Legacies in the African Novel: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Matigari as a Paradigm.- 3. Decolonial Visions in Mid-Twentieth-Century African Rhetoric: Perspectives from Kwame Nkrumah's Consciencism .- 4. Images of Colonialism in the Text of Two African Female Poets.- 5. Migration and Exile: The Exotic Essence of Life in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather .- 6. Ingrid de Kok's "A Room Full of Questions" and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.- 7. Identity, the "Passing" Novel, and the Phenomenology of "Race".- Section II. Encounters: Spaces of Subjugation and Dominance.- 8. Precolonial Imaginaries and Colonial Legacies in Mobutu's "Authentic" Zaïre.- 9. World War II and West African Soldiers in Asia, 1943-1947.- 10. A Colonizing Agricultural Company in Somalia: The Duke of Abruzzi's Società Agricola Italo-Somala in the Italian Colonial Fascist System.- 11. The Magical Hour of Midnight: The Annual Commemorations of Rhodesia's and Transkei's Independence Days.- 12. Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience.