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Mitchison, Decolonisation and African Modernity
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From the late 1950s, Naomi Mitchison was a vocal critic of the Apartheid system in South Africa, and a consistent advocate of Black African self-government. During the 1960s, as British colonies in sub-Saharan Africa were gaining their independence, Mitchison spent much of her time in Botswana, as a guest of, and adviser to, Kgosi Linchwe II, the leader of the Kgatla people. This chapter describes Mitchison’s anti-colonial activism, her fiction set in Botswana and the wider region, and her developing understanding of decolonisation as a cultural and psychological, as well as a political, process.
Title: Mitchison, Decolonisation and African Modernity
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From the late 1950s, Naomi Mitchison was a vocal critic of the Apartheid system in South Africa, and a consistent advocate of Black African self-government.
During the 1960s, as British colonies in sub-Saharan Africa were gaining their independence, Mitchison spent much of her time in Botswana, as a guest of, and adviser to, Kgosi Linchwe II, the leader of the Kgatla people.
This chapter describes Mitchison’s anti-colonial activism, her fiction set in Botswana and the wider region, and her developing understanding of decolonisation as a cultural and psychological, as well as a political, process.
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