Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is the director of the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI) and is also a professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa. He is the author of Do 'Zimbabweans' Exist? Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial State (Peter Lang, 2009); The Ndebele: Reflections on Hegemony, Memory, Historiography (Rozenberg Publishers & UNISA Press, 2009); co-editor, with James Muzondidya, of Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism? Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe (Peter Lang, 2011); andColoniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization (CODESRIA Books, 2012).

• Preface PART I: GLOBAL IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND EMPIRE Chapter 1. Introduction: Empire and Global Coloniality-Towards a Decolonial Turn Chapter 2. Global Imperial Designs and Pan-Africanism Chapter 3. Coloniality of Power and African Development PART II: SUBJECT, SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY Chapter 4. The Ticklish Subject in Africa Chapter 5. Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa Chapter 6. Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe PART III: COLONIALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONALISM Chapter 7. Coloniality of Knowledge and Higher Education Chapter 8. African National Project and National Question PART IV: CONCLUSION Chapter 9. Global Crisis and Africa Today Bibliography

"Sabelo J. Gatsheni-Ndlovu's book brilliantly - reveals empire's invisible Eurocentricism and coloniality from an African perspective - [It] unapologetically deciphers how global power hierarchy was rooted in the very making of Western hegemony, which manifested itself in colonial subjugation and subalternization of Africans, and is the very essence of the continent's wretchedness in the current world order today." * Siphamandla Zondi, Director of Institute for Global Dialogue (IDG), South Africa "A path-breaking book that bears eloquent testimony to the finest traditions of liberatory decolonial thinking and cannot be overlooked by all those with a stake in the transformation of Africa." * Cyril Obi, Program Director of the African Peacebuilding Network, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) " - a very insightful, timely and important contribution to scholarship on the post-colonial African condition and the many challenges that African societies face with regard to nation building and crafting common national identities in a rapidly changing world. It ranks up there with the best in the field with respect to the debates that it tackles. It is, in my view, a very welcome scholarly contribution to African studies in general and African history in particular." * Alois S. Mlambo, University of Pretoria "A most impressive book [that] is clearly structured, cleverly argued and exceptionally well written - Within the paradigm selected by the author, that is, a coloniality perspective, conceptual and methodological issues are addressed systematically and with considerable analytical rigour." * Ian Phimister, University of Sheffield