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• W91011603 abstract "Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958, By Elizabeth Schmidt. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2005. Pp. xv, 293. $99.95/£56.99 cloth, $27.95/ £15.99 paper. Over the past half century, Guinea as a nation has been exemplary in two symbolic ways: one heroic and the other tragic. First, in late September 1958, the Parti Democratique de Guinee (PDG), a postwar grassroots anticolonial movement, authored francophone Africa's first independent nation, two years prior to the rest of French colonies. In a constitutional referendum Guineans voted almost unanimously to reject membership into the French Community, a newly refigured colonial tutelage proposed by France. Several days after the NO vote, Guinea declared independence and immediately became, with its charismatic nationalist leader, Sekou Toure, a powerful icon for emergent African Second, under Toure (1958-1984), Guinea endured one of the most brutal and sustained dictatorships on the continent. An unfathomable third of the population went into exile; untold thousands suffered death from torture and summary execution under the police state. Neither phenomenon has received much recent scholarly attention, making Mobilizing the Masses a welcome addition to the literature. In a richly detailed social history, Schmidt documents four grassroots movements that united in the PDG to secure independence. Based on archival sources and oral histories with female party activists, individual chapters examine how trade unionists, military veterans, peasants, and women waged separate struggles against the French administration and its local African representatives. The author describes that, after great sacrifice in the war, former tirailleurs soldiers returned home to find inferior pensions and benefits compared to their metropolitan counterparts, an unacceptable situation which soon led veterans to organize associations to claim and receive equal rights. The same period also blossomed with trade unions and labor disputes throughout French West Africa, and this book demonstrates where workers in a variety of sectors, but especially Guinean rail men, waged and won a series of strikes for better pay and rights. Peasants' experiences during the wartime period were particularly harsh, as colonial officials both instituted mandatory crop cultivation to feed the fighting troops and increased forced labor recruitment to work on European plantations. On the ground, according to Schmidt, it was local chiefs who executed these orders, and, added to the chiefs' abuses of tax collection, growing peasant resentment translated into outright resistance and the eventual elimination of rural chiefs in 1957. Guinean women featured as central supporting elements in these struggles, significantly during the 1953 general strike, yet Schmidt also studies how women increasingly became politicized around their own social and economic concerns, such as better health services, more educational opportunities, increased food rations, and reduced market fees. Through their active participation in party politics, female PDG militants openly challenged male domestic authority and their prescribed gender roles. By incorporating the specific issues and models of these four zones of nonelite politics, the author argues, were the nationalist PDG and its educated elite able to mobilize successfully and ultimately win independence. Mobilizing the Masses wants to recover the progressive nature of anticolonial nationalism, which Schmidt terms inclusive nationalism. Rather than a negative and exclusionary force as now commonly held, nationalism in its anticolonial mode, the author states, necessarily needed to mobilize strategically and make effective alliances across regional, ethnic, and religious divides. Furthermore, the book wishes to turn the tables completely on nationalist historiography, a body of scholarship still attached to top-down approaches that see educated elites as the central source for paradigms and methods of the nationalist agenda. …" @default.
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