Author : Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Release : 2024-09-05
Genre : History
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans write by Raphael Chijioke Njoku. This book was released on 2024-09-05. Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the throne. In this book, Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen Elizabeth II’s role in the African decolonization trajectories and the postcolonial state’s quest for genuine political and economic liberation since 1947. By locating Elizabeth at the center of Anglophone Africa’s independence agitations, the account harnesses the African interests to tease out the monarch’s dilemma of complying with Whitehall’s decolonization schemes while building an inclusive and unified Commonwealth in which Africans could play a vital role. Njoku argues that to gratify British lawmakers in her complex and marginal place within the British parliamentary system of conservative versus reformist, Elizabeth’s contribution fell short of African nationalists’ expectations on account of her silence and inaction during the African decolonization raptures. Yet ultimately, the author concludes, she helped build an inclusive and unified organization in which Africans could assert and appropriate political and economic autarky.