Francis Kariuki* Abstract Colonialism impacted the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of Africans in the most fundamental and radical way. With colonialism, a western legal tradition premised upon an Anglo-American jurisprudential thought was imposed on Africans. African values, norms and beliefs, which provided the normative and undergirding framework for conflict resolution, wer...

There is clearly much work to be done on science in the Japanese colonial empire and on colonialism as a category in the Japanese sciences. Political considerations are partly to blame for delaying this research program, though we seem now at the point where Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and other scholars can work productively together. That the present volume includes, for example, a Korean sch...

The often-told tale of Zulu King Shaka and his diviners may tell us more about colonial religion and politics in the nineteenth century than it does about Zulu religion and politics. The tale unfolds in various nineteenth-century books, popular and contemporary histories, and in oral traditions. Writers have frequently portrayed it as a key point in King Shaka’s leadership, most especially E A ...

It is hard to imagine what much of modern science would have looked like without colonialism. equally 19th- and 20th-century colonialism minus developments in science.To grasp the first point, one only has think Charles Darwin on board Beagle a five-year voyage that take him around world provide data drive his theory natural selection. The young man was brought as naturalist gentleman companion...

moments when it seemed possible for Latin American and Indian anti-colonial and subaltern theoretical writing to generate a mutually fruitful dialogue. This dialogue was directed towards the possibility of identifying the terrain on which the epistemological hegemony of Western Europe could be countered. Unlike the essay ‘Coloniality of Power and Subalternity’ that deals directly with the South...