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Agency and Action in Colonial Africa Also by Chris Youé ROBERT THORNE CORYNDON: Proconsular Imperialism in Southern and Eastern Africa, 1897–1925 Also by Tim Stapleton MAQOMA: Xhosa Resistance to Colonial Advance, 1798–1873 Agency and Action in Colonial Africa Essays for John E. Flint Edited by Chris Youé Professor of History Memorial University of Newfoundland St John’s Canada and Tim Stapleton Assistant Professor of History Trent University Peterborough Ontario Canada Editorial matter and selection © Chris Youé and Tim Stapleton 2001 Chapters 1–11 © Palgrave Publishers Ltd 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2001 978-0-333-77885-2 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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I.Youé,Christopher P.II.Stapleton,Timothy Joseph,1961– DT32.5 .A39 2001 967’.031—dc21 2001021551 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors ix Introduction: John Flint and Agency in History 1 Chris Youé and Tim Stapleton John Flint’s Publications 9 1 Faku, the Mpondo and Colonial Advance in the Eastern Cape, 1834–53 12 Timothy J. Stapleton 2 ‘Scientific Gold’: Robert Koch and Africa, 1883–1906 34 Myron Echenberg 3 Colonial Commandants and the Administration of Slavery Policy in French West Africa 50 Martin A. Klein 4 Slavery, Sorcery and Colonial ‘Reality’ in Mauritania, c. 1910–60 69 E. Ann McDougall 5 ‘You Are Tearing My Skirt’: Labotsibeni Gwamile LaMdluli of Swaziland 83 Ackson Kanduza 6 A Christian, Civilized Man: D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa 100 Catherine Higgs 7 Creech Jones and African Universities, 1943–50 126 Apollos Nwauwa 8 Chiefs and the Making of Industrial Policy in Nigeria 141 Allister Hinds 9 Critical Agents: Colonial Nigerian Intellectuals and their British Counterparts 156 Philip S. Zachernuk vi Contents 10 Rebellion and Quiescence: Kenyan and Rhodesian Responses to Forced Removals in the 1950s 172 Chris Youé 11 Hastings Banda and Cold War Politics in Malawi 195 Joey Power Index 213 Acknowledgements The editors, on behalf of his many students and the Canadian Africanist community, offer thanks to the man who inspired us, questioned us, taught us and entertained us. In looking back upon our Dalhousie years, we consider ourselves the ‘fortunate many’ because, despite our numbers and demands, John Flint was so generous with his time and so supportive of our work. These essays are for John Flint. We would also like to thank Aruna Vasudevan of Palgrave for her help in getting this project off the ground, and Bev Evans-Hong of Memorial’s History Department for making sure we landed safely. Material in Chapter 6 is reprinted with the permission of Ohio University Press/Swallow Press from the book The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959 by Catherine Higgs (Ohio University Press/ Swallow Press, 1997), and the maps and table in Chapter 10, taken from Paul Mosley, The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900–1963 (Cambridge, 1983), are reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. vii This page intentionally left blank Notes on the Contributors Myron Echenberg teaches African history at McGill University, Montréal, and is the author of Colonial Conscripts: The Tiralleurs Sénegalais in French West Africa, 1857–1960 (London: James Currey, 1991). His forthcoming book on the bubonic plague is titled Black Death in Senegal, 1914–45. Catherine Higgs was an undergraduate at Queen’s before doing her doctorate at Yale. Her book on D. D. T. Jabavu, The Ghost of Equality, was published by Ohio University Press in 1997. She is currently co-editing a volume entitled Black Women in the Old World and New. Allister Hinds is a former Flint student who teaches at the University of the West Indies at Mona. His work on colonial economic policy in the age of decolonization appears in various journals, including the Interna- tional Journal of African Historical Studies (1996) and the Journal of African History (1997). He has recently completed a book-length manuscript entitled Sterling, Colonial Economic Policy and Decolonization: the British Colonial Territories. Ackson Kanduza published The Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Northern Rhodesia, 1918–1960 in 1986 for the Dalhousie African Studies Series. Born in Zambia, he now teaches history at the University of Swaziland. Martin Klein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies. He has published exten- sively on French West African history, especially on the underclasses, and he published Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (Cambridge University Press) in 1998, to critical acclaim. Ann McDougall is an expert on Saharan social and economic history, and co-authored with John Flint the chapter on nineteenth-century economic change in West Africa in Ajayi and Crowder’s History of West Africa (2nd edn, London: Longman, 1987). Her most recent article is ‘ASense of Self: the Life of Fatma Barka’ in the Canadian Journal of African Studies 32, 2 (1998). She is Professor of African History at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. ix
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