The book is organized thematically as a comprehensive overview of both indigenous and modern African political thought. Focusing on individual political thinkers/activists and beginning with indigenous African political though, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary ...
Stephen de Wijze explores the change in moral boundaries for politicians engaged in realpolitik--those with "dirty hands," doing wrong to do right. The problem of "dirty hands" is used as a central organizing concept in order to develop a political morality, one which provides the license to act outside the constraints of a personal morality without descending into amoral pragmatism. The book ...
What constitutes black studies and where does this discipline stand at the end of the twentieth century? In this wide-ranging and original volume, Manning Marable -one of the leading scholars of African American history -gathers key materials from contemporary thinkers who interrogate the richly diverse content and multiple meanings of the collective experiences of black folk. Here are ...