Africans in exile : mobility, law, and identity / edited by Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Holger Bernt Hansen -- Introduction: Reconstructing the archive of Africans in exile / Nathan Riley Carpenter & Benjamin N. Lawrance -- Part One: The legal worlds of exile -- "Wayward humours" and "perverse disputings" / Ruma Chopra -- From bandits to political prisoners / Trina Leah Hogg -- The path of extinction / Nathan Riley Carpenter -- Reforming state violence in French West Africa / Marie Rodet & Romain Tiquet -- A kingdom in check / Thaïs Gendry -- "As if I were in prison" / Brett L. Shadle -- Part Two: Geographies of exile -- In the city of waiting / Joanna T. Tague -- Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau revolution in exile / Aliou Ly -- Brothers in the bush / Kate Skinner -- A Cold War geography / Susan Dabney Pennybacker -- The French trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith Terretta -- Part Three: Remembering and performing exile -- Forced labor and migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet -- Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the poetics of exile / Sana Camara -- The legacy of exile / Kris Inman -- Reconstructing slavery in Ohioan exile / E. Ann McDougall -- A nation abroad / Benjamin N. Lawrance -- Epilogue. From exile with love / Baba Galleh Jallow -- Afterword. Worlds and words of migration / Emily S. Burrill -- Poem. "Exile" / by Abena P.A. Busia.

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The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.

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