Author: Robert Baldwin ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Bibliography for the Study of African Politics
Author: Robert Baldwin ShawA Bibliography for the Study of African Politics
Author: Robert Baldwin ShawA Bibliography for the Study of African Politics
Author: Robert Baldwin ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Bibliography for the Study of African Politics
Author: Eric R. SiegelPublisher: African Studies Association
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A bibliography for the study of African politics
Author: Robert Baldwin ShawA Bibliography for the Study of African Politics
Author: Robert B. ShawA Bibliography for the Study of African Politics
Author: Contemporary African Politics and Development
Author: Vijitha MahadevanPublisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN: 9781555873349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description
This research tool is based on a systematic, comprehensive analysis of books, monographs, journals and edited volumes dealing with African political affairs and socioeconomic development.
African Political Systems
Author: Meyer FortesPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446545369
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We feel sure that the first object has been attained, for the societies described are representative of common types of African political systems and, taken together, they enable a student to appreciate the great variety of such types. As the sketch-map on p. 2 shows, the eight systems described are widely distributed in the continent. Most of the forms described are variants of a pattern of political organization found among contiguous or neighbouring societies, so that this book covers, by implication, a very large part of Africa. We are aware that not every type of political system found in Africa is represented, but we believe that all the major principles of African political organization are brought out in these essays. Several contributors have described the changes in the political systems they investigated which have taken place as a result of European conquest and rule. If we do not emphasize this side of the subject it is because all contributors are more interested in anthropological than in administrative problems. We do not wish to imply, however, that anthropology is indifferent to practical affairs. The policy of Indirect Rule is now generally accepted in British Africa. We would suggest that it can only prove advantageous in the long run if the principles of African political systems, such as this book deals with, are understood. Each essay is a condensation of a detailed study of the political system of a single people undertaken in recent years by the most advanced methods of field-work by students trained in anthropological theory. A degree of brevity that hardly does justice to some important topics has been necessary for reasons of space. Each essay furnishes, nevertheless, a useful standard by which the political systems of other peoples in the same area may be classified. No such classification is attempted in this book, but we recognize that a satisfactory comparative study of African political institutions can only be undertaken after a classification of the kind has been made. It would then be possible to study a whole range of adjacent societies in the light of the Ngwato system, the Tale system, the Ankole system, the Bemba system, and so on, and, by analysis, to state the chief characters of series of political systems found in large areas. An analysis of the results obtained by these comparative studies in fields where a whole range of societies display many similar characteristics in their political systems would be more likely to lead to valid scientific generalizations than comparison between particular societies belonging to different areas and political types.
African Aims and Attitudes
Author: Martin MinoguePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521098519
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Political thought is an essential ingredient of politics and the study of political ideas is equally essential for the analysis of political systems. Although the study of African politics has expanded in past years, African political ideas have been relatively neglected. Yet a significant characteristic of African political activity is that those who exert the greatest influence in practical politics also take the lead in formulating those ideas that might be characterised as political thought. The relationship between African political thought and African political action is, in formal terms, a close one. In addition to the main introduction, which discusses the characteristics and significance of African political ideology, the editors have provided short introductions to each major section of documents, biographies of the authors quoted, and a substantial bibliography of works by individual Africans or non-Africans who have influenced thought, as well as of more general sources. With this book the reader will be able to understand readily the issues which are of the most fundamental concern in African politics, and the attitudes which inform the actions of those in crucial posts of political authority.