The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent; constituting "distributed presence," which allows for "action at a distance." As a result, colonial subjects became willing participants in these processes, unbeknownst to them, which perpetuated their own colonialism. The book exposes forms of colonialism where manufactured consent is used to perpetuate colonialism. Trapped in this capitalist, Western, Christian language and moral world order without sovereignty, African countries continuously sink deeper into the colonial quagmire.
Everisto Benyera is associate professor of African politics in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa.
Contents Chapter 1: How and why is colonialism a contract?, Everisto Benyera Chapter 2 The Black and the Colonial Contract, Tendayi Sithole Chapter 3: Unravelling the Paradigm of War Embedded in the Colonial Contract of Palestine: Contemporary Zionist Colonialism as an Extension of Global Islamophobia, Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay Chapter 4: Contract farming as covert perpetuation of colonial capitalist hegemony? The Zimbabwe context, Tom Tom & Knobby Tomy Chapter 5: Post- Independent African Leadership and the Paradox of Global Political Economy: The Zimbabwean Experience Under Mugabe, Washington Mazorodze Chapter 6: The Zimbabwe Post-2000 'Illegal' Sanctions: The Cost of Rejecting the Colonial 'Contract'?, Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba Chapter 7: Reclaiming Africa's Space and Development through Indigenous Knowledge Systems?: A Focus on Zimbabwe, Tom Tom Chapter 8: 'State-Capture' of Indigenous Knowledge: Lived Experiences of Forest-Dependent Nigeria with Coloniality, Godwin Etta Odok Chapter 9: Claims and Counterclaims: Rewriting Gaza in the 21st Century, Charles Pfukwa Chapter 10: Continuity, Discontinuity and Change towards a Decolonial World Order: Africa's Challenges and Opportunities, Torque Mude Chapter 11: Moulding African Personality Through Reclaiming Physical and Intellectual Space, Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Alexander Madanha Rusero, & Joseph Ngoaketsi Chapter 12: Unshackling the future: emancipatory struggles of the global South, Pascah Mungwini Chapter 13: Democratic Peace Theory nexus sustainable peace among Great Lakes region: Linking theory to realities of Rwanda-Uganda relations, Paul Mulindwa Chapter 14: Towards autonomous decolonial futures: Using the master's tool to destroy the master's house, Everisto Benyera About the Contributors
