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Author |
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| Name |
Amoussou-Moderan, Fidel
Fidel.amoussou-moderan@rub.de |
| Research field | History |
| Career stage | doctoral researcher |
| Home university/institution | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) |
| Department/Research unit at home university/institution | History |
| Chair/Working group at home institution | Transnational Studies |
International activity |
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| Country | Togo |
| Location | Lomé, Sokodé |
| University | University of Lomé |
| Fund Research School | PR.INT |
| Type of activity | research stay |
| Period |
starts 01-03-2023 ends 31-03-2023 |
| Keywords | Transnational Resistance, WWII in Africa , Global War, Black Narratives and Black African Veteran remembrance, State Repression, Exile and Trajectories. |
| Report |
Abstract of PhD Project: African agency in the fight against Fascism and National Socialism is still not sufficiently studied in historiography. Leaving out this part of history is neither an innocent mistake nor a coincidence. Still, it could be rather an act of actively banning African agencies from our collective memory and remembrance culture. In my dissertation project, I study “forgotten” Black resisters who have been subjected to arrest warrants, prison and/or death sentences, as well as victims of the colonial and fascist policies of Vichy in the Military Tribunal of Dakar. By studying the resistance of African dissidents in French Western Africa between 1940 and 1942, I will delineate the discordant and complex history of the Black “Transnational Resistance” in wartime. The scope of the PhD project will extend beyond the year 1942 by analyzing the transfer of narrations, including its functions and its evolutions from the post-war period to the present time. Aim of the Archive consultation in Togo in March 2023: The objective of this archive consultation was to recover the trajectory of Africans impacted by the Vichy Trans-Imperial violence, because of their dissident activities. My academic interest was focused on the "S.L.IC.A” network (Service de Liaison et d'Informations de la Côte d'Afrique, ), a transnational organization that recruited Africans to spy on the Vichy regime. This transnational organization recruited agents from the usual people (cattle traders, businessmen, travelers, mandated administrators, etc.) to cross the border between Togo, the Gold Coast, and Benin/Nigeria. In the Dakar archives, I also aimed to consult all the information concerning the M.A. (Menée anti-national) Anti-National Initiative from Vichy and its interaction with the Dakar Military Tribunal in Togo, Dahomey and the border of Nigeria and Ghana. |