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External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans. They employ “trusteeship” and “organized infantilism” as two-pronged colonial intervention tools to keep Africans in subordinated positions by accepting and internalizing those practices as part of the “normal order of things.” This book takes an interdisciplinary approach for examining these different forms of power relations that exploit and dispossess African societies of their resources to accumulate their own wealth.
“This book is one of the most interesting works I have read on Africa. It makes a significant contribution to its diverse literature.” • Martha Donkor, West Chester University
Obed Mfum-Mensah is Professor of Sociology of Education at Messiah University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently researching on social activism and education policy reforms in southern Africa, postcolonial analysis of education policy and knowledge transfer in sub-Saharan Africa.
Introduction:Trusteeship and African Identities in a Flux
Part I: Trusteeship, External Forces, and Destabilization of African Identities
Chapter 1. Trusteeship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 2. Framing “Organized Infantilism” and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 3. Muslim Arab Trusteeship and Destabilization of African Identities
Chapter 4. Development of European and Western Trusteeship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 5. Between “Scylla and Charybdis”? Africa-China Relations
Chapter 6. Global Governance or Racialized Imperialism?
Part II: Contemporary Interventions, Destabilization, and Construction of New African Identities
Chapter 7. Institutionalization of Systemic Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 8. State Institutions and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 9. Space Politics as Identity Politics in Urban Planning
Chapter 10. Religious Missionizing or Colonial Intervention?