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Breaking the Colonial "Contract"

From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures

Everisto Benyera editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:22nd May '20

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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.

ISBN: 9781793622730

Dimensions: 229mm x 160mm x 30mm

Weight: 612g

298 pages