By Benjamin N. Lawrance
During this unique interdisciplinary examine of Togo and African colonial heritage, Benjamin Lawrance synthesizes political, gender, and social historical past by means of documenting the contributions of rural-dwelling populations in anti-colonial struggles. Anchoring his arguments at the premise that nationalist historiographies have overstated the position of city and elite energy whereas undervaluing the strategic position of rural constituencies, Lawrance makes use of the Ewe nationalist move of southern Togo as a case research in what he phrases "periurban colonialism" -- a old paradigm that reunites the city and rural reviews of post-World struggle I colonialism. by way of reconciling the marginal and non-elite groups and the social upheavals of the 2 international struggle sessions, Lawrance deals a brand new standpoint at the colonial event and the anti-colonial fight. In targeting an African state uniquely colonized through the Germans, British, and French, he presents a wealth of knowledge now not available to the English-language viewers. available to students of African social background and African tradition typically, Locality, Mobility, and "Nation" will occupy a special position between reviews of African colonial heritage and anti-colonial struggles.
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Between 1925 and 1935, however, the chief of one village sought to enhance his power by combining his office with that of vodou priest. In order to accomplish this, he deviated from the practices of the region and terrified his local population into submission with sporadic bouts of human sacrifice. Chapter 4 reveals how periurban colonialism operated on the ground by demonstrating the rapid response to challenges to the colonial order. Furthermore, it demonstrates the intrinsic role of religion in dispute formation and resolution, as local communities struggled to negotiate the political environment created by the French colonial presence.
52 Emboldened by the havoc caused by the Asante Wars of 1869–74, during which many Ewe were killed or forced to flee, the NMG clergy positioned themselves as defenders of the weak and opponents of the domestic slave trade. 53 The missionary presence increased steadily over half a century, and its two lasting contributions were laying the terrain for the creation of an independent Ewe Protestant church, and the standardization of the Ewe language. In the early period (1850–90) the German and Swiss missions, including the Mobility, Locality, and Ewe Identity in Periurban Eweland 31 influential NMG missions, cooperated in the creation of a grammar and orthography that drew extensively on the Anlo and Ho dialects.
Between 1922 and 1932, a quasi-democratic body, the Conseil des Notables, assisted in the governance of the city and its outlying periurban region, the Cercle of Lomé. This experiment in elected office displaced the role of urban lineage heads and village chiefs in the governance of the town, and produced conflicting lines of authority that were exploited by youths and periurban market women. In 1933, however, the French governor decided to curtail the power of the Conseil by creating a Conseil Municipal, stripping the original body of the power it wielded over the periurban zone.