Connexions between ‘Primary Resistance’ Movements and Modern Mass Nationalism in East and Central Africa

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Datos Bibliográficos

ID8977539
AutoresT O Ranger (autor de correspondencia)
Año1968
Volumen9
Número4
Páginas631-641
Fecha de publicación1968-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of African History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021853700009087
OpenAlexW4253420333
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas3

In the first part of this article a number of possible connexions between ‘the last-ditch resisters’ and the ‘earliest organizers of armed risings’, and later leaders of opposition to colonial rule in East and Central Africa, were explored. It was argued that African ‘primary’ resistance shaped the environment in which later politics developed; it was argued that resistance had profound effects upon white policies and attitudes; it was argued that there was a complicated interplay between manifestations of ‘primary’ and of ‘secondary’ opposition, which often overlapped with and were conscious of each other. Then the argument turned to a more ambitious proposition, namely that ‘during the course of the resistances, or some of them, types of political organization or inspiration emerged which looked in important ways to the future; which in some cases are directly and in others indirectly linked with later manifestations of African opposition’

Colonialism · Epistemology · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proposition · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy