期刊名称：International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
印刷版ISSN：1818-6874
电子版ISSN：1753-7274
出版年度：2022
卷号：17
期号：1
页码：1-3
DOI：10.1080/18186874.2022.2107671
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：A hundred years ago, Africa was in the throes of colonial and imperial imaginations thatsought to exalt Western powers after the devastation of their First Great War, sometimescalled a World War. While the nineteenth century was a period of terrible expansion ofthe colonial order, subjugating many independent territories and nations to colonial ruleand colonial capitalist expansion, the early twentieth century was a period ofconsolidation. The League of Nations’ mandate over Cameroon found expressionexactly a hundred years ago. Parts of this territory would later be cut off to form part ofNigeria and others would fall elsewhere. It was an experiment in mapping others’territories at will, without any regard to the wishes and aspirations of indigenous people.The latter were seen as sub-beings who lacked the moral weight ascribed to humanbeings and whose maltreatment thus did not have any moral implications at all.
