Breaking the Colonial "Contract": From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures

Everisto Benyera, Tendayi Sithole, Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay, Tom Tom, Knobby Tomy, Washington Mazorodze, Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba, Godwin Etta Odok, and Charles Pfukwa

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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.
  • ISBN10 1793622736
  • ISBN13 9781793622730
  • Publish Date 22 May 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lexington Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 298
  • Language English