Brother Moses,
Good luck on this project. Long overdue. I suppose you are already aware of the two notable works I am suggesting here. If not, they are surely worthy of your attention.
1. David Northrup, Africa's Discovery of Europe, Oxford UP, 2014. Chapter 1, p.12 examines how Africans along the Gambia and Senegal rivers associated the appearance and material possessions of the Portuguese they first met with sorcery, magic and witchcraft.
2. Michal Tymowski, "African Perceptions of Europeans in the early period of Portuguese expeditions to West Africa" (2015).
Of course, you may need to visit the fishing villages of the coastal people of Accra to find out what their foremothers thought of the first Europeans they encountered. The Kwawu people of the interior too about what they thought of the Reverend Ramseyer when he tried to impose Presbyterianism on them.
Edward Kissi
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Harrow, Kenneth
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2019 9:14 PM
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that's a great question. louise white's famous essay on zombies in kenya under colonialism. should be easy to dig up. if you need more help, ask and i'll find it.
secondly, voodoo type stuff runs throughout ouologuem's devoir de violence, mostly from the african leaders, but i vaguely remember the white commandant doing stuff back.
ken
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 7:30 PM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Inquiry about White Man and Magic
Esteemed scholarly colleagues on the list, I'd appreciate if you could refer me to any literary and/or scholarly work that broaches and analyzes the association of European colonizers with magic, sorcery or witchcraft. I'm particularly interested in works that show how Africans understood or posited the colonial white man as a magician--a worker of magic, miracles, and/or possessor of supernatural powers. Articles, books, book chapters, fiction, poetry, songs, etc would be appreciated.
Thanks for your help on this.
Moses
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