A history of prison and confinement in Africa / edited by Florence Bernault.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernault, Florence.

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Social history of Africa 1099-8098

Social history of Africa, 1099-8098

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--Africa--History.

Prisons.

Imprisonment--Africa--History.

Imprisonment.

Detention of persons--Africa--History.

Detention of persons.

History.

Africa.

Physical Description:

x, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2003]

Contents:

1. The Politics of Enclosure in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa / Florence Bernault 1

2. Confinement in Angola's Past / Jan Vansina 55

3. Captivity and Incarceration in Nineteenth-Century West Africa / Thierno Bah 69

4. Juvenile Marginality and Incarceration During the Colonial Period: The First Penitentiary Schools in Senegal, 1888-1927 / Ibrahima Thioub 79

5. Punishment to Fit the Crime?: Penal Policy and Practice in British Colonial Africa / David Killingray 97

6. Colonial Urbanism and Prisons in Africa: Reflections on Conakry and Freetown, 1903-1960 / Odile Goerg 119

7. Between Conservatism and Transgression: Everyday Life in the Prisons of Upper Volta, 1920-1960 / Laurent Fourchard 135

8. Ultimate Exclusion: Imprisoned Women in Senegal / Dior Konate 155

9. L'Enfermement de l'Espace: Territoriality and Colonial Enclosure in Southern Gabon / Christopher Gray 165

10. Space and Conflict in the Elisabethville Mining Camps, 1923-1938 / Sean Hanretta 191

11. Administrative Confinements and Confinements of Exile: The Reclusion of Nomads in the Sahara / Pierre Boilley 221

12. The War of the Cachots: A History of Conflict and Containment in Rwanda / Michele D. Wagner 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

032507125X

OCLC:

50184879