Breaking the Colonial "Contract"

The book characterizes colonialism as a duress contract entered into by the colonized and enforced by the colonizers. The contributors argue that the colonial "contract" must be voided because of the dehumanization and oppression implied. Only when unmasked and fully comprehended can colonialism be halted.

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 Count