Autobiography, memory and nationhood in Anglophone Africa. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Ekanem Udoinwang, James Tar Tsaaior.
• Authors: Udoinwang, David Ekanem; Tsaaior, James
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 960.32; Political activists -- Africa -- Biography; Autobiography -- History and criticism; Africa -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000632866; 9781000632804; 9781003293149
• Related ISBNs: 9781032275215
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