Decolonisation

David Boucher is Professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations, and Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre at Cardiff University. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Johannesburg. Ayesha Omar is Senior Lecturer in political theory in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Research Associate at SOAS (University of London). Christopher Allsobrook is the Director of the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa at the University of Fort Hare. Camilla Boisen is a historian of political thought and Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Ndumiso Dladla teaches jurisprudence in the Department of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. Sule Emmanuel Egya is Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Arts and Indigenous Studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria. Michael Elliott is a lecturer at King’s College, London, and research associate of the NRF/British Academy Chair in Political Theory at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Steven Friedman is Research Professor in the Humanities Faculty at the University of Johannesburg. Amber Murrey is Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford. Paul Patton is Hongyi Chair Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University. Chris Saunders is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town. Ian S. Spears is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Acronyms
Introduction Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives – David Boucher and Ayesha Omar
Chapter 1 The Invention of Blacks: Notes on Conquest, Fear and Time – Ndumiso Dladla
Chapter 2 The Decolonisation of Southern Africa: Historical Reflections – Chris Saunders
Chapter 3 The Border of Trust at Kat River for Coloured Settlers, 1851–1853 – Christopher Allsobrook and Camilla Boisen
Chapter 4 Decolonisation and the Enduring Legacy of Colonial Borders in Africa – Ian S. Spears
Chapter 5 Fanon’s Challenge: Identity, Recognition and Ideology – David Boucher
Chapter 6 Beyond Redemption: Unsettling Progressive-Romantic Storyings of Colonial Injustice in Western Critical Thought – Michael Elliott
Chapter 7 The Limits of Decolonisation and the Problem of Legitimacy – Paul Patton
Chapter 8 Decolonisation – Real and Imagined – Steven Friedman
Chapter 9 Decolonisation and the Crisis of African Literature in the Twenty-First Century
– Sule Emmanuel Egya
Chapter 10 Pedagogical Disobedience in an Era of Unfinished Decolonisation – Amber Murrey
Contributors
Index