African Political Thought

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Springer, Dec 23, 2012 - Political Science - 215 pages
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.
 

Contents

Acknowledgments
European Construction of Africa
Indigenous AfricanPolitical
Sudan
African Theories and Ideologies of Westernization Modernization
The SocialistPopulist and PopulistSocialist Ideologies
Machel
Modibo Kéïta Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Frantz Fanon Thomas Sankara
Bantu StephenBiko
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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).