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Title Is 'Portuguese-speaking' Africa Comparable to 'Latin" America'? Voyaging in the Midst of Colonialities of Power
Full text http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01071972
Date 2013
Author(s) Cahen, Michel
Abstract Establishing a comparison between so-called "Latin" America and "Portuguese-speaking" Africa may well prove useful in highlighting certain major differences between those countries of America and Africa having undergone early colonization. But the main difference will not concern the hundred and fifty years between the independences of the early nineteenth and those of the late (1974-1975) twentieth century. It will lie in the very nature of the states created, on the one hand, by independences without decolonization - the colonial (Latin) states - and, on the other hand, by independence with decolonization - the decolonized (African) states: states, that is, which are differently embedded into colonialities of power. But such a comparison will also help to bring out certain common features stemming from the "longue durée" of Iberian colonizations. One such feature, despite the distance involved, is the Creole issue: the persistence and political importance of social milieus stemming from the first age of colonization. Although those old colonial elites were pre-capitalist - in the sense of not accumulating via the capitalist mode of production - they were, however, fully integrated into the merchant capitalist world-system.
Subject(s) [SHS:SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; [SHS:SCIPO] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique; [SHS:HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History; [SHS:HIST] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire; Contemporary history; Colonisation; Decolonisation; Portuguese speaking countries; Latin America; Africa
Language fra
Type of publication article in peer-reviewed journal
Source History in Africa: A Journal of Method (African Studies Association, Cambridge Journals online, CJO)
Identifier DOI: 10.1017/hia.2013.1
Repository France - Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL), SHS
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