Three African social theorists on class struggle, political liberation, and indigenous culture : Cheikh Anta Diop, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah / Charles Simon-Aaron ; with a foreword by George J. Sefa Dei
Class conflict and the state : the politics of Marxism -- Towards a Marxist politics -- Anti-structuralism as anti-economism : toward the social relations of historical change -- Alfred Cobban -- Richard Ashcraft -- Neil Wood -- Amilcar Cabral : revolutionary nationalism in Guine-Bissau -- Cheikh Anta Diop : ancient roots of African political independence -- Kwame Nkrumah : petit bourgeois spirit murder and populist nationalism in Ghana -- Petty bourgeois class ideology and the politics of liberation -- Summary
Summary
This book is a study of the relationship between African political theory and the politics of liberation. It elucidates the dialectical inter-relationship between the political philosophical views of these thinkers and the political, social and economic contexts of their respective countries
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, 2001, under the title: Class ideology and African political theory
