Donald Carter Preface 1. Khalid Koser New African Diasporas 2. David Styan La Nouvelle Vague? Recent Francophone African Settlement in London 3. Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos A Refugee Diaspora: When the Somali Go West 4. Jayne Ifekwunigwe Scattered Belongings: Reconfiguring the 'African' in the English-African Diapsora 5. Paul Stoller Marketing Afrocentricity: West African Trade Networks in North America 6. Bruno Riccio More Than a Trade Diaspora: Senegalese Transnational Experiences in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) 7. Khalid Koser Mobilizing New African Diasporas: An Eritrean Case Study 8. Desire Kazadi Wa Kabwe and Aurelia Segatti Paradoxical Expressions of a Return to the Homeland: Music and Literature among the Congolese (Zairean) Diaspora 9. Takyiwaa Manuh 'Efie' or the Meanings of 'Home' among Female and Male 'Ghanaian' Migrants in Toronto, Canada and Returned Migrants to Ghana

The isaq somali diaspora and poll-tax agitation in kenya, 1936–41

New African Diasporas

FOUNDATIONS OF THE COLONIAL EXPORT ECONOMY The economic changes that took place in Africa in the period under review have been summarised in terms of varied implication, as the economic revolution, the second stage of Africa's involvement in the world economy, the intensification of dependent peripheral capitalism, the completion of the open economy, or simply as the cuffing of Africans into the modern world. The concrete fact, however, from which these descriptions take off in different directions is not itself in much dispute. Between 1905–9 and 1935–9, exports from African countries between the Sahara and the Limpopo increased by about five times in value and by nearly as much in volume; import values rose by some three-and-a-half times, import volumes between two-and-a-half and three times. Total trade thus grew in real terms at an annual average rate of a little over 3 per cent. At first sight this is hardly a momentous expansion. For even though it was nearly double the rate of growth of world trade taken as a whole, it started from such low levels that the global impact was hardly perceptible, and was not of primary significance for the economies of the colonial powers themselves; before the Second World War, trade with sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa still excluded) never accounted for a twentieth part of the United Kingdom's exchanges. So inconspicuous, indeed, were the short-term and even the mediumterm commercial gains accruing from the European conquest of tropical Africa that many metropolitan observers, unaware that the investment was a long-term pre-emption, have concluded either that it was a mistake or that it must have been undertaken for reasons that were not commercial.

The Colonial Moment in Africa: Aspects of economic history

In 1913, Africa as a whole accounted for about 7 per cent and 10 per cent respectively of the external trade of Britain and France. By and large, the overriding concern of the colonial powers was to prevent their colonial possessions becoming financial burdens to the metropolis. In France, a colonial ministry had been created in 1894, but its responsibilities in Africa were confined to West Africa, Equatorial Africa, French Somaliland and Madagascar. The economic depression of the 1930s was a new stimulus to reappraise imperial attitudes to Africa. The trend towards imperial protection in economic policy accelerated the growth of trade between Africa and the metropolitan powers. This was most marked in France: Africa's share of her external trade rose from about one-tenth in the 1920s to over one-fifth by 1935. The involvement of rural Africa in the operations of capitalist enterprise was a major theme of social research in the 1930s.

The imperial mind

African cross-currents

This paper deals with the way a “politics of belonging” has been enacted in recent years in Kenya, and what this means for the Somali population of the country. Even though Kenyan Somalis have been...

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The isaq somali diaspora and poll-tax agitation in kenya, 1936–41

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New African Diasporas

The Colonial Moment in Africa: Aspects of economic history

The imperial mind

African cross-currents

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