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State Formation Through the Lens of Colonialism and Missionary Movements
Tue, September 28, 2:00 to 3:30pm PDT (2:00 to 3:30pm PDT), TBASession Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel
Session Description
This panel revisits the subject of colonialism and missionary movements. The key questions are the following: Are contemporary African state borders really just an arbitrary colonial creation? What were the long term effects of Italian colonialism on its former colonies? How did colonial states respond to worker strikes? How does Salafi radicalization differ across sub-Saharan Africa?
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Endogenous Borders: Geography, Precolonial States, and the Partition of Africa - Jack Paine, University of Rochester; Xiaoyan Qiu, IE University; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland
Missionary Roots of Islamic Fundamentalism in Africa - Aala Abdelgadir, Stanford University
“Police Fire on Rioters, Africans Attack Patrol” - Kaden Paulson-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
The Colonial Origins of Political Underdevelopment in Somalia and Libya - Salih O. Noor, Northwestern University