Imperialist expansion itself generated the coherence and dynamics of African resistance

Evidence

This achievement as a structural phenomenon was a concomitant of the world system and the imperialist expansion that it demanded. Its coherence, however, was based on the African identities of its peoples. As a structural process, its dynamics were seated in the very expansion of imperialism. This was the dialectic of imperialism and liberation, the contradiction that compelled the appearance of resistance and revolution out of the condition of oppression—even from its ideology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 827

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School material on how oppression generates its own opposition and ideology critique from within dominant frameworks. — connects to: Anti-imperial resistance requires nation-state restructuring, not just discursive acts — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 57; Rhodesian policy creating mass African landlessness fueled nationalist mobilization around land redistribution. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 26