Breaking the Colonial Contract by Everisto Benyera

Breaking the Colonial Contract by Everisto Benyera

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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.

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Breaking the Colonial Contract by Everisto Benyera

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.
Everisto Benyera is associate professor of African politics in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa.
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ISBN 13 9781793622754
ISBN 10 1793622752
Title Breaking the Colonial Contract
Author Everisto Benyera
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published 2021-12-20
Number of pages 298
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