À Against the tide of the official history of the colonizers, this powerful fresco turns the gaze to recount, from the point of view of the colonized, a hundred and fifty years of combat against domination, and to resonate in the present a denial that continues.
From the sepoy revolt of 1857 to the astonishing Republic of the Rif, set up from 1921 to 1926 by Abdelkrim el-Khattabi before being crushed by France, this first episode shows that resistance, in other words decolonization, has started with the conquest. He recalls how, in 1885, the European powers shared Africa in Berlin, how the Germans committed the first genocide of the twentieth century in Namibia, rivaling the horrors carried out under the leadership of the Belgian king Leopold II in the Congo. It also traces the paths of the Haitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin, the Kenyan Mary Nyanjiru, the English missionary Alice Seeley Harris or Lamine Senghor, a young Senegalese rifleman who became a communist and anti-colonialist militant.
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Decolonizations
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Release Date | 2020-10-01T00:00:01Z |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 232 |
Publication Date | 2020-10-01T00:00:01Z |