Author: Paul T. Kennedy
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1988-09-30
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521319669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1988 book provides an analysis of African capitalism which offers a positive view of its role.
Author: Nelson Kasfir
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1317792084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics.
Author: Piet Konings
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1317848713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1986. Africanists are nowadays devoting increasing attention to the role of the state - both colonial and post-colonial - in the process of class formation in African societies. The present study of the role of the state in the process of rural class formation in Ghana can be viewed as both an expression of the current interest in, and an addition to the growing body of literature on, this subject.
Author: Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1400889715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. The result is a groundbreaking reassessment of colonial rule in Africa and its enduring aftereffects. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.
Author: T. V. Sathyamurthy
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 806
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eliphas G. Mukonoweshuro
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780819182838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines from a materialist perspective the socio-economic, historical and political factors contributing to the political instability and underdevelopment of Sierra Leone. Tools of analysis from different methodological perspectives such as class and ethnicity are critically reviewed and utilized in the analysis and identification of colonial class formation, the behavior of political groups and their economic bases. The emphasis is on the dominant colonial social forces that shaped the evolution and development of the decolonization process, including the formation of colonial social classes, colonial state and the political relation that developed.