Author: Colin LegumPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : fr
Pages : 228
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Le panafricanisme à l'épreuve de l'indépendance
Author: Colin LegumAfrique : l’épreuve de l’indépendance
Author: Ben Yacine-TouréPublisher: Graduate Institute Publications
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 164
Book Description
Cet ouvrage constitue un travail de réflexion et de synthèse sur les tendances présentes et décelables des principales options politiques et économiques des gouvernements africains au terme de vingt-cinq ans d'indépendance. Trois considérations dominent l'approche de l'auteur : 1. L'Afrique, cette entité politique et économique « une et indivisible », à laquelle on se réfère constamment, n'existe pas. Elle est à concevoir et à forger au prix d'un effort gigantesque de plusieurs générations d'Africains confiants dans les valeurs ancestrales et suffisamment avertis des réalités du monde extérieur. 2. L'indépendance n'est pas une fin, mais un moyen au service de la libération nationale qui constitue le véritable et ultime objectif de la décolonisation de l'Afrique. 3. Le développement est un projet commun de société. Dans son élaboration, le peuple est acteur et l'élite instrument, et non l'inverse. L'auteur sort des sentiers battus d'une présentation idéalisée ou schématisée de l'Afrique pour nous restituer l'indépendance dans son extrême complexité, simple charnière entre le passé et l'avenir de l'Afrique. Dans une présentation sans complaisance, à partir d'une profonde et stimulante inspiration, le débat sur l'avenir de l'Afrique s'ouvre ici à un niveau exceptionnellement élevé.
African Politics
Author: P.F. GonidecPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400989024
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
To an increasing extent, nationals of Third World countries are protesting against the tendency of foreign theoreticians and observers to study their problems - political problems in particular - in terms of concepts and theories established on the basis of European experiences. For instance, the Egyptian Abdel Malek I in La diaiectique sociaie, writes: 'At the starting point, whose broad lines we sketch here, there is evidence of inadequation, deriving from the fact of difference. Inadequation of the conceptual system of the social sciences. Differences between Western societie- which have provided the larger part of the analytical material for the con ceptual elaboration and establishment of theoretical systems in different disciplines - on the one hand, and non-Western societies (those of Asia, Africa and Latin America) on the other hand. ' This does not mean that the author impugns universalism and that he advocates enclosing the Third World in a sort of intellectual ghetto, overemphasizing its specificity, and constituting as it were 'reserves' designed to highlight the exotic aspect for the benefit of foreigners. 2 On the contrary, what he takes sociology to task for is its insufficiently universal and universalizing nature. This being so, his aim is to make concepts more universal and to rebuild theory with the help of reshaped concepts. Abel Malek's criticisms are largely justified. There is indeed a certain eurocentricity in the theories elaborated by political scientists, even if they deny it.
World Justice
Author: Presence Africaine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Includes special issues.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
New Acquisitions in the UNECA Library
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The History of Congo
Author: Didier GondolaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313011281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book begins with a survey of Congo's early history, when diverse peoples such as the Luba, the Kuba, and the Nilotic inhabited the area, and continues by tracing the country's history through the Belgian period of colonization and the dictatorships of Mobutu and Kabila. Biographical portraits present important figures in Congo's storied history. An annotated bibliography and chronology help make this the most current and accessible introduction to this fascinating, complex, and long-suffering nation. The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, is located at the center of Africa. The country encompasses the entire Congo River Basin, the potential source of 13% of the world's hydroelectric power. The Congo River Basin also contains one-third of Africa's rainforests, countless species of trees, and more then 10,000 species of flowering plants. Congo contains extremely valuable deposits of diamonds and coltan, a metal used in high-tech machinery. Because of this abundance of natural resources, Congo has unfortunately been the site of colonial domination, repressive dictatorships, and internecine violence between rebel groups and neighboring countries.
A Current Bibliography on African Affairs
Author: The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University
Author: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and PeacePublisher:
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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