Africans in Exile

Nathan Riley Carpenter directs the Center for Global Education at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA. Benjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and Editor-in-Chief of the African Studies Review. He is the author of Amistad's Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling.

CONTENTS


Foreword: Holger Bernt Hansen


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, Reconstructing the Archive of Africans in Exile


Part One: The Legal Worlds of Exile


1. "Wayward Humours" and "Perverse Disputings" / Ruma Chopra


2. From Bandits to Political Prisoners: Detention and Deportation on the Sierra Leone Frontier / Trina Leah Hogg


3. The Path of Extinction: The Double Exile of Alfa Yaya and the Penal Regime in French Colonial Africa / Nathan Riley Carpenter


4. Reforming State Violence in French West Africa: Relegation in the Epoch of Decolonization / Marie Rodet and Romain Tiquet


5. A Kingdom in Check: Exile as a Strategy in the Sanwi Kingdom, C / Thaïs Gendry


6. "As if I were in Prison" / Brett Shadle


Part Two: Geographies of Exile


7. In the City of Waiting: Education and Mozambican Liberation Exiles in Dar es Salaam, 1960-1975 / Joanna T. Tague


8. Amilcar Cabral and the Bissau Revolution in Exile: Women and the Salvation of the Nationalist Organization in Guinea, 1959-1962 / Aliou Ly


9. Brothers in the Bush: Exile, Refuge, and Citizenship on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1958-1966 / Kate Skinner


10. A Cold War Geography: South African Anti-Apartheid Refuge and Exile in London, 1945-94 / Susan Dabney Pennybacker


11. The French Trials of Cléophas Kamitatu / Meredith Terretta


Part Three: Remembering and Performing Exile


12. Forced Labor and Migration in São Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Berthet


13. Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba and the Poetics of Exile / Sana Camara


14. The Legacy of Exile: Terrorism in and outside Africa from Osama bin Laden to Al-Shabaab / Kris Inman


15. Reconstructing Slavery in Ohioan Exile: Mauritanian Refugees in the United States / E. Ann McDougall


16. A Nation Abroad: Desire and Authenticity in Togolese Political Dissidence / Benjamin N. Lawrance


Epilogue: From Exile with Love / Baba Galleh Jallow


Afterword: Worlds and Words of Migration: Exile in African History / Emily S. Burrill


Notes on Contributors


Index