Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032275215 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

David Ekanem Udoinwang; James Tar Tsaaior

Opis

This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for posterity.

Spis treści

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