Description: 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.
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Book Title: Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans : Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa's Development, 1947-2022
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Topic: Africa / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year: 2024
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
