Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Editat de Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, Richard L. Robertsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 aug 2015
As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that “a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African.” Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these civil servants could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society.
By uncovering the role of such men (and a few women) in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule, the role of language and education, the production of knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class.
By uncovering the role of such men (and a few women) in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration, and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule, the role of language and education, the production of knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299219543
ISBN-10: 0299219542
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: 2 b-w figures, 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
ISBN-10: 0299219542
Pagini: 342
Ilustrații: 2 b-w figures, 4 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Recenzii
“This volume . . . sets an agenda for a new and nuanced understanding of how Africans figured in the making of colonial Africa. . . . These studies not only establish the agency of African intermediaries but also narrate, assess, and contextualize it.”—Philip S. Zachernuk, African Studies Review
“Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks has its greatest strength in the diverse vignettes of life across Africa under a variety of colonial regimes and through nearly two centuries of history.”—James E. Genova, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Notă biografică
Benjamin N. Lawrance is Professor of African History at the University of Arizona. Emily Lynn Osborn is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. Richard L. Roberts is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History and codirector of the Center for African Studies at Stanford University.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction: African Intermediaries and the “Bargain” of Collaboration
Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts
The Formative Period of Colonial Rule, ca. 1800–1920
An Interpreter Will Arise: Resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe’s Diplomatic and Evangelical Contributions as a Cultural Intermediary on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Frontier, 1816–1818
Roger S. Levine
Interpreting Colonial Power in French Guinea: The Boubou Penda–Ernest Noirot Affair of 1905
Emily Lynn Osborn
Interpretation and Interpolation: Shepstone as Native Interpreter
Thomas McClendon
Petitioners, “Bush Lawyers,” and Letter Writers: Court Access in British-Occupied Lomé, 1914–1920
Benjamin N. Lawrance
Negotiating Legal Authority in French West Africa: The Colonial Administration and African Assessors, 1903–1918
Ruth Ginio
The Maturing Phase of Colonial Rule, ca. 1920–1960
“Collecting Customary Law”: Educated Africans, Ethnographic Writings, and Colonial Justice in French West Africa
Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
Interpreters Self-Interpreted: The Autobiographies of Two Colonial Clerks
Ralph A. Austen
African Court Elders in Nyanza Province, Kenya, ca. 1930–1960: From “Traditional” to “Modern”
Brett L. Shadle
Power and Influence of African Court Clerks and Translators in Colonial Kenya: The Case of Khwisero Native (African) Court, 1946–1956
Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi
The District Clerk and the “Man-Leopard Murders”: Mediating Law and Authority in Colonial Nigeria
David Pratten
Cultural Commuters: African Employees in Late Colonial Tanzania
Andreas Eckert
Afterword
African Participation in Colonial Rule: The Role of Clerks, Interpreters, and Other Intermediaries
Martin Klein
Appendix: Personnel Files and the Role of Qadis and Interpreters in the Colonial Administration of Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1857–1911
Saliou Mbaye
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: African Intermediaries and the “Bargain” of Collaboration
Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts
The Formative Period of Colonial Rule, ca. 1800–1920
An Interpreter Will Arise: Resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe’s Diplomatic and Evangelical Contributions as a Cultural Intermediary on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Frontier, 1816–1818
Roger S. Levine
Interpreting Colonial Power in French Guinea: The Boubou Penda–Ernest Noirot Affair of 1905
Emily Lynn Osborn
Interpretation and Interpolation: Shepstone as Native Interpreter
Thomas McClendon
Petitioners, “Bush Lawyers,” and Letter Writers: Court Access in British-Occupied Lomé, 1914–1920
Benjamin N. Lawrance
Negotiating Legal Authority in French West Africa: The Colonial Administration and African Assessors, 1903–1918
Ruth Ginio
The Maturing Phase of Colonial Rule, ca. 1920–1960
“Collecting Customary Law”: Educated Africans, Ethnographic Writings, and Colonial Justice in French West Africa
Jean-Hervé Jézéquel
Interpreters Self-Interpreted: The Autobiographies of Two Colonial Clerks
Ralph A. Austen
African Court Elders in Nyanza Province, Kenya, ca. 1930–1960: From “Traditional” to “Modern”
Brett L. Shadle
Power and Influence of African Court Clerks and Translators in Colonial Kenya: The Case of Khwisero Native (African) Court, 1946–1956
Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi
The District Clerk and the “Man-Leopard Murders”: Mediating Law and Authority in Colonial Nigeria
David Pratten
Cultural Commuters: African Employees in Late Colonial Tanzania
Andreas Eckert
Afterword
African Participation in Colonial Rule: The Role of Clerks, Interpreters, and Other Intermediaries
Martin Klein
Appendix: Personnel Files and the Role of Qadis and Interpreters in the Colonial Administration of Saint-Louis, Senegal, 1857–1911
Saliou Mbaye
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Descriere
African civil servants in the colonial era—working as intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations—were able to manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society. These essays explore the role of African civil servants in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states and offer new insights on hegemony, resistance, language, and education.