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African Freedom Phyllis Taoua Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42741-8 — African Freedom Phyllis Taoua Index More Information Index Abani, Chris The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions Graceland, 28, 190, 242–9, 256, and Feminisms, 1958-1988., 18, 19, 282, 293 106 Abrahams, Peter Angola, 215 The Path of Thunder, 111 apartheid, 1, 2, 8, 17, 22, 28, 108, 109, Tell Freedom, 22 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, Achebe, Chinua, 44 117, 119, 136, 157, 159, 160, 193, Anthills of the Savannah, 167 196, 198, 199, 200, 223, 240 Things Fall Apart, 29, 120, 129, 278–81 apartheid state, 1 Adejunmobi, Moradewun popular protest against, 192 “Provocations: African Societies Appiah, Kwame Anthony, and Theories of Creativity” Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of in Rethinking African Cultural Strangers, 261, 283 Production, 20 areas of narrative interest, 16 Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi expansion of global capital, 16 Purple Hibiscus, 27, 106, 108, 128–35, gender relations, 16 281, 288, 293 introspection and intimate self, 16, 38, Aduaka, Newton 44, 75, 86 Ezra, 254, 263 spiritual realm, 16 African National Congress, 17, 152, 157, the nation, 16, 147–8, 202 158, 159, 160, 192 Armah, Ayi Kwei, 166 post- apartheid challenges, 7 Akan references in novels, 18 African studies The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, 19, debate about postcolonial theory, 11–13 27, 44, 134, 160–5, 167, 171, 245, African women 248, 293 enter conversation on freedom, 26 critical reception of early novels, 43–5 Agadez Fragments, 26, 45–61, 166, 288 travel to, 11 Fragments and Baako’s nested identity, Ahidjo, Ahmadou, 45, 146, 186 51 Aidoo, Ama Ata Fragments and critique of capitalist The Dilemma of a Ghost, 105 hegemony, 57–60 The Eagle and the Chicken, 259 Fragments and Fanonian intertext, 47–8 Ajayi- Soyinka, Omofolabo, 12 Fragments and history of slavery, 50 Algeria, 154, 159, 186, 191 Fragments and Juana in Fanonian inter- anticolonial conlict in, 8 text, 51–3 Alhacen, Almoustapha armed conlict, 28, 115, 134, 217, 254, human rights and uranium industry, 235 255, 265, 291 Anderson, Benedict, 152 in new millenium, 14 Imagined Communities: Relections on the armed struggle, 2 Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 5, Attenborough, Richard 148, 150 Cry Freedom, 192 Andrade, Susan Awoonor, Koi, 44 313 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42741-8 — African Freedom Phyllis Taoua Index More Information 314 Index Bâ, Mariama, 181 Cameroon, 149, 154, 168, 187 feminist introspection in Une si longue anticolonial conlict in, 8 lettre, 84–5 colonial exploitation, 232 Une si longue lettre, 19, 26, 73–86, 106, travel to, 10, 145–7 122, 289 Camus, Albert Une si longue lettre and feminist criticism, L’Étranger, 47 73–4 capitalism, 7, 14, 20, 23, 25, 28, 50, 56, bantusans 60, 66, 68, 69, 70, 85, 87, 150, 151, in South Africa, 193 160, 165, 169, 170, 220, 221, 225, Barré, Siyad, 259 229, 231, 234, 235, 245, 250, 251, Belgian Congo 252, 253, 254, 264, 265, 266 decolonization, 36 criticism of global capital in Kenya, 250 Beti, Mongo, 10, 16 and development, 220 ‘Francophone African Republics’, 145, effects of neoliberalism, 28 185, 191 global capitalism and African sover- Histoire du fou, 188 eignty, 222 La France contre l’Afrique, retour au global expansion, 27 Cameroun, 188 global history of labor, 228 La Revanche de Guillaume Ismaël globalization and conlict, 262 Dzewatama, 186 inequality in neoliberal era, 226 Main basse sur le Cameroun, 186 Marxist criticism of global capital, 227 Peuples noirs, peuples africains, 186 and neoliberal policies, 218 post- exile writing, 187 neoliberalism and inequality, 225 Remember Ruben, 186 policies of IMF and the World Bank, Trop de soleil tue l’amour, 27, 145, 147, 239 180, 185–91, 256 possibilities for reform, 224 Ville cruelle, 19 prisoners of global capital, 238 Biehl, Amy Carpentier, Alejo context of her murder, 199 The Kingdom of This World, 6, 165 murder in Gugulethu, 197 Castro, Fidel, 178 Biko, Steve, 5, 8, 192 Coetzee, J. M., 109 and black consciousness, 199 Cold War, 179 criticism of apartheid, 193 divisions and competition, 5 I Write What I Like, 28, 196 and obstacles to political citizenship, 27 and Truth and Reconciliation Congo, Democratic Republic, 36, 215, Commission, 195 217, 258, 263 Biya, Paul, 146, 186 independence and sovereignty, 3 Bjornson, Richard Congo, Republic, 36, 173, 258, 287 The African Quest for Freedom and Cooper, Frederick, 28, 110, 254 Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present, National Experience, 45, 186 5, 13, 18, 167, 172, 180, 221 nested identity concepts, 45 decolonization and emergence of gate- Boehmer, Elleke, 106 keeper states, 171 Boorman, John history of emergence of neoliberalism, In My Country, 20, 193 221 Botha, Pik, 192 Boulaga, Fabien Eboussi Dangarembga, Tsitsi Les Conférences nationales en Afrique: Nervous Conditions, 123 Une affaire à suivre, 179 Davidson, Basil Brazzaville The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the travel to, 10, 35–8 Curse of the Nation- State, 5, 166 Brink, André, 109 de Klerk, F. W., 192 decolonial theory, 24 Cabral, Amìlcar, 167, 219 decolonization Unity and Struggle, 167 and African complicity, 178 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42741-8 — African Freedom Phyllis Taoua Index More Information Index 315 and armed insurrections, 154 and freedom, 220 in the Belgian Congo, 176 idea of, 1 and competition for inluence during Mandela’s commitment to multi- racial Cold War, 178 democracy, 192 criticism of “grand narrative”, 13 and meaningful freedom in South criticism of triumphant discourse, 166 Africa, 197 derailed in Cameroon, 146 transition during 1990s, 180, 223 and development agenda, 167 transition in Cameroon, 186, 233 and development policies, 23 transition in Mali, 1991, 180 and dystopic narratives, 167 and women’s pro- democracy protest, and European development schemes, 184 221 and women’s rights, 181 and Fanon on inherent violence, 154 Democratic Alliance, 160 and Fanon’s “new men”, 41 dictatorship, 256 feminist engagement with, 135 and allegory in Finzan, 185 and gatekeeper state, 167 and culture of impunity, 189 and gender, 104 and culture of impunity in Graceland, as historical process, 168 247 history and promise of develoment, 217 as deprivation of freedom in Sen’s writ- history of, 5 ing, 230 history of emergence of gatekeeper state, and gender in Finzan, 184 170 and interconnected kinds of freedom, inequality after, 13 201 interdisciplinary approach to study of, in Mongo Beti’s iction, 191 20 persistent challenges, 292 introspective narratives after, 17 representation in Finzan, 182 and ironic parade in Touki Bouki, 70 representation in La vie et demie, 176 legacy in Niger, 236 and resistance in Finzan, 183 limited achievements, 166 and transition to democracy in 1990s, and Lumumba’s legacy, 67 185 and masculinity in Nigeria, 121 Diop, Alioune and multifaceted aspects of freedom, Présence Africaine, 3 136 Diop, Boris Boubacar narrative in Ghana, 160 Murambi: le livre des ossements, 255, 263, and national literature, 43 287 and neoliberal capitalism, 230 Diouf, Mamadou, 284 and new elite in Ghana, 59 dispossession obstacles to solidarity, 170 idea of, 15 recalibration from collective to individ- Djebar, Assia, 285 ual identity, 38 L’Amour, la fantasia, 124 representation in Afrique, je te plumerai, La nouba des femmes de Mont Chenoua, 233 125, 126, 127–8 and representation of intimate self, 26 La Soif, 105, 124 and repression in South Africa with La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli, 125 Sharpeville, 110 Le Blanc de l’Algérie, 124, 147, 191 symbolism of imperfect legacy, 71 Vaste est la prison, 27, 108, 124–7, 191, the nation and idea of freedom, 147 293 uneven process, 8 Dongala, Emmanuel Western manipulation of process, 170 Johnny chien méchant, 19, 28, 254, democracy, 2, 6, 15, 21, 22, 27, 52, 86, 255–8 109, 130, 131, 148, 152, 156, 158, Dostoevsky, Fyodor 167, 171, 187, 188, 191, 197, 218, Crime and Punishment, 47 227, 235, 241, 248, 251, 285 Dovey, Lindiwe and capitalism, 227 African Film and Literature: Adapting civic debate and freedom, 236 Violence to the Screen, 200 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42741-8 — African Freedom Phyllis Taoua Index More Information 316 Index DuBois, W. E. B., 2 existential, 24, 89, 122, 128, 137, 187, The Souls of Black Folk, 3 196, 198, 203, 226, 248, 255, 264, 267, 281, 282 Economic Freedom Fighters, 160 and expansion of global capital, 245 Eley, Geoff, 28, 294 feminist redeinition, 134 “Historicizing the Global, Politicizing and lower symbolism, 133 Capital and gender, 27 Giving the Present a Name”, 227–9 and gender in Algeria, 128 on national sovereignty, 254 and gender in Knots, 260 El- Tahri, Jihan idea of, 9 Cuba: An African Odyssey, 178 and independence, 2 Emecheta, Buchi instrumental, 24, 88, 105, 117, 123, The Joys of Motherhood, 10, 27, 108, 131, 136, 185, 187, 202, 238, 246, 119–24 249, 252, 255, 264, 266, 282 interconnected freedoms and women’s Fanon, Frantz, 148, 151, 159, 165, 167, liberation, 81–4 170, 177, 187, 250 interconnected kinds, 24, 107, 130, 131 absence of freedom in his writing, 21 interconnected spheres of experience, criticism of negritude, 38 105 Damnés de la terre, 39, 40, 154, 167 interdependent kinds of, 185 Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté, 21, 41 language of in canonical works, 19 national liberation discourse, 152–6 language of in Purple Hibiscus, 128 Peau noire, masques blancs,
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