Enterprises In Africa Research Articles

`Boy!': The Hinge of Colonial Double Talk

The French colonial enterprise in Africa enforced racial segregation, yet encouraged Africans to assimilate the French language, culture, and religion. The essay questions these contradictory policies through readings of Ferdinand Oyono's novels. It argues that a figure that embodies undecidability—the colonial servant known as the "boy"—is the locus of the denaturalization of the identities that were simultaneously institutionalized and denied by the Manichaean colonial world.

Commercialization and corporate capital in the sorghum beer industry of Central Africa

Within industrial geography Third World studies remain a largely underdeveloped research terrain. Especially in developing Africa, the poverty of manufacturing research is evident, with the mass of current studies concerned only with descriptive monitoring. The present paper represents a contribution to the geography of business enterprise in Africa investigating the evolution of sorghum beer manufacturing in Central Africa. The time span of this study embraces a period of rapid change in the political environment of the region, with the march of decolonization. The examination of the sorghum beer industry highlights the themes of an emergent African multinational enterprise, the takeover by British capital and finally its withdrawal leaving a niche which was occupied by South African capital. The major corporate actors in the sorghum beer industry are shown both as active agents of industrial change and reactive agents of the shifting international political tide.

Contested terrain: A comparative and theoretical reassessment of state‐owned enterprise in Africa

(1984). Contested terrain: A comparative and theoretical reassessment of state‐owned enterprise in Africa. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 22, State Enterprises, Competing Interests and Public‐Private Sector Relations, pp. 4-27.

The Future of Missionary Enterprise in Africa South of the Sahara

The central emphasis in the missionary enterprise in Africa has been education. Through the instrumentality of educational institutions of various kinds on all levels, from kindergarten through university, churches have participated in the struggle against the major enemies to human survival and well-being in subSahara Africa-illiteracy, poverty, disease and exploitation. This concern has been prompted by the desire to give expression to the moral and ethical imperatives of the Christian faith, as well as to extend the faith into parts of the world where the gospel had not been proclaimed. Literacy and religious nurture were linked inseparably in the stated objectives of mission schools from the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.

French Colonial Expansion in West Africa, The Sudan, and the Sahara

The conclusion of a definite treaty of diplomatic alliance between France and Morocco, in February, 1910, marks one of the last steps in a long series of moves to establish for France a vast colonial empire in the Dark Continent. Between the years 1830 and 1850, France acquired the whole of Algeria and Constantine. In 1881 she annexed Tunisia; and, in the ten years that followed, she participated with Germany, Great Britain and Italy, in the race for territory in Africa. But it is only within the past twenty years that she has successfully created a great colonial state there.French colonial enterprise in Africa began in 1637, when Claude de Rochefort built fort St. Louis at the mouth of the Senegal river on the west coast and explored the interior for 100 miles. He was followed during the 18th and early 19th centuries by other intrepid explorers who made settlements at Millicourie on the Guinea coast and at Assinié and Grand Bassam on the Ivory Coast, and who penetrated further and further into the interior until the valiant Réné Caille, after marvelous adventures, reached Timbuktu, near the Upper Niger, in 1837. The French holdings on the Senegal were extended and consolidated into an effective base for future operations by the energetic General Faidherbe from 1854 to 1865, who added the Oulof country as far south as Cape Verde and the kingdom of Cayore, and built the harbor at Darkar. He was the first to recognize the possibilities of West Africa as a colonial center. “Our possession on the West Coast,” he wrote to the Colonial Office, “is possibly the one of all our colonies that has before it the greatest future; and it deserves the whole sympathy and attention of the Empire.”