The 'Partnership' Hoax
How the British Government Deprived Central Africans of their Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4604446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert I Rotberg (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-110 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2019.1558654 |
| OpenAlex | W2913759193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
British governments connived with Rhodesian settlers to transform their ‘protected’ Central African wards into junior ‘partners’ of whites in an attempt to solve a series of Africa-wide problems that threatened sustainable colonial rule. Multiracial ‘partnership’ was a ruse to divert African self-rule initiatives and to concoct a compromise that would preserve white dominance. The genesis of the federation movement in central Africa is well-known, but not the precise invention of ‘partnership’. Without ‘partnership’ there would have been no Federation and, conceivably, different triumphs of African nationalism. This article examines the intellectual odyssey that resulted in the articulation of the idea of multiracial ‘partnership’; the role of the Colonial Office, governors, particular churchmen and the Capricorn Africa Society in promoting ‘partnership’; how cynicism and sleight of hand came to dominate the official imperial debate over African rights; the profound rejection of these initiatives by Africans; the immediate and lasting consequences in Central Africa of ‘partnership’; and what the failed foisting of ‘partnership’ upon wards of the Crown tells us about the underlying ethics of colonialism
Colonialism · Compromise · General partnership · Government (linguistics · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Public Administration
African opinion and the Commonwealth
The African Dimension to the Anti-Federation Struggle, ca. 1950–53
Challenging the Hero Narrative
Operation Refugee
From Federation to ‘White Redoubt’
Settler Worldmaking
Bogey Bogey Stuff’
The Colonial African
Federation, Partnership, and the Chronologies of Space in 1950s East and Central Africa
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |