Developing Africa: Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism

✍ Scribed by Joseph Hodge, Gerald Hodl and Martina Kopf (eds.)

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa.

Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic viewpoints, this book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, it offers new and unique perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualises the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of colonial development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and postcolonial studies.

Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, Developing Africa is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Series page
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of figures and tables
General editor’s introduction
Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
PART I Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism
1 From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s
2 Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses
3 A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika’s late colonial public sphere
PART II Economic and rural development
4 The ‘private’ face of African development planning during the Second World War
5 Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia
6 Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79
7 The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French
PART III Social development and welfare
8 From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyik
9 ‘Keystone of progress’ and mise en valeur d’ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for de
10 Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55
11 Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa
PART IV Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial de
12 The world the Portuguese developed: racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portug
13 The notion of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their socia
14 Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period
Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead
Bibliography
Index