African Political Thought

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Springer, 23.12.2012 - 215 Seiten
Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state.
 

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African Political Thought from Antiquity to the Present
1
The Political Ideology of Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
11
The Influence of Islamic Values and Ideas on Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Century
20
African Theories and Ideologies of Westernization Modernization and Liberal Democracy from Early West African Nationalism to Humanism
43
PanAfricanism and African Unity From Ideal to Practice
55
The SocialistPopulist Ideology I From Patrice Lumumba to Samora Machel
71
The SocialistPopulist Ideology II From Kwame Nkrumahto Julius Nyerere
85
The PopulistSocialist Ideology From Frantz Fanon to Steve Biko
104
The AfricanistPopulist Ideology Popular Democracy and Development in Africa
129
The Transformative Power of Ideas and Values Toward Peace Development and Democracy in Africa
152
Notes
159
Bibliography
187
Index
212
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GUY MARTIN is Professor of Political Science at Winston-Salem State University, USA. He is the author of Africa in World Politics: A Pan-African Perspective (2002); co-editor (with Chris Alden) of South Africa and France: Towards a New Engagement in Africa? (2003); and co-author (with Mueni wa Muiu) of A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika (2009).

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