3 - Remaking from Below: The Political and Policy Implications of Subaltern Experiences in Postcolonial Freetown
Corresponding Author(s) : Ibrahim Abdullah
Afrika Zamani,
No 22-23 (2015): Afrika Zamani: Revue annuelle d’histoire africaine
Résumé
Cet article traite de l’archéologie de la violence et de l’exclusion urbaine à Freetown durant la période postcoloniale. Il soutient que les subalternes ont subi une double exclusion pendant et après la période coloniale : d’abord en tant qu’indigènes sur la base de la race, puis en tant que catégorie économique marginale. Leur résistance obstinée à la structuration par l’autorité nous oblige à repenser la cité et les citoyens d’une nouvelle façon qui remet en question notre conception de l’urbanisation, de la citoyenneté et de l’État-nation en Afrique contemporaine. L’article comprend trois sections. La première aborde les restrictions par l’autorité et l’exclusion raciale des indigènes dans cette ville au cours de la période coloniale. La deuxième examine la division postcoloniale et la transformation des indigènes en sujets sous le prisme de la lutte des classes. La troisième traite des changements monumentaux qui continuent de faire et de refaire Freetown durant la période d’après-guerre ainsi que des souffrances des pauvres en milieu urbain.
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- Porter, Arthur T., 1963, Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- UN-Habitat, 2008, State of the World Cities, 2010/2011, UN-Habitat: Nairobi.
- UN-Habitat, 2010, State of the Urban Youth 2010/2011. Leveling the Playing Field: Inequality of Youth Opportunity, UN-Habitat: Nairobi.
- UN-Habitat/UNEP, 2010, The State of African Cities: Governance, Inequality and Urban Land Markets, Nairobi.
Les références
Abdullah, I. 1994, ‘Rethinking the Freetown crowd: the moral economy of the 1919 strikes and riot in Sierra Leone’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 26 (2): 197–218.
Abdullah, I. 2005, ‘""I am a rebel"": youth culture and violence’, in Honwana, A. and De Boeck, F., eds, Makers and Breakers: children and youth in postcolonial Africa, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press.
Abdullah, I. and Muana, P., 1998, ‘The Revolutionary United Front (RUF): a revolt of the lumpenproletariat’, in Clapham, C., ed., African Guerillas, Oxford: James Currey.
Banton, Michael, 1957, West African City: A study of Tribal Life in Freetown, New York: New York University Press.
Cooper, F., 1983, Struggle for the City: Migrant labor, Capital, and the State in Urban Africa, Sage Publication: Beverly Hills
Davis, M., 2006, Planet of Slums, London and New York: Verso.
Fanon, F., 1963, The Wretched of the Earth, New York: Grove Press.
Fyfe, C. and Jones, E., eds, 1968, Freetown: a symposium, London: Oxford University Press and Sierra Leone University Press.
Government of Sierra Leone, 2008, An Agenda for Change: Second Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP 11) 2008-2012.
Hardoy, J. E. and Satterthwaite, D., eds, 1989, Squatter Citizens: life in the urban Third World, London: Earthscan.
Harrell-Bond, B., Howard, A.M., and Skinner, D.E, 1978, Community Leadership and the Transformation of Freetown, The Hague: Mouton.
Howard, A., 2003. ‘Cities in Africa, past and present: contestation, transformation, discourse’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 37 (2 & 3), Special Issue, ‘Cities in Africa’.
Makannah, T. J., ed., 1996, Handbook of the Population of Sierra Leone, Freetown: Toma Enterprises.
Mamdani, M., 1996, Citizen and Subject, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Mitlin, D. and Satterthwaite, D., eds, 2001, Empowering Squatter Citizen: local government, civil society and urban poverty reduction, London: Earthscan.
Porter, Arthur T., 1963, Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tranberg Hansen, K. 2008, Youth and the City in the Global South, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
UN-Habitat, 2008, State of the World Cities, 2010/2011, UN-Habitat: Nairobi.
UN-Habitat, 2010, State of the Urban Youth 2010/2011. Leveling the Playing Field: Inequality of Youth Opportunity, UN-Habitat: Nairobi.
UN-Habitat/UNEP, 2010, The State of African Cities: Governance, Inequality and Urban Land Markets, Nairobi.