Research Catalog

Title

Africa : the politics of independence and unity / Immanuel Wallerstein ; with an introduction by the author.

Author

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-2019

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005].

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Additional Authors

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-

Description

xvi, 280 p. : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

"Africa: The Politics of Independence and Unity combines into one edition for the first time Africa: The Politics of Independence and Africa: The Politics of Unity. With a new introduction by the author, this edition provides some of the earliest and most valuable analysis of African politics during the period when the colonial system began to disintegrate. The influential Africa: The Politics of Independence was written as Africa was just realizing independence and still reveling in the optimism it brought. Immanuel Wallerstein was one of the few scholars who had traveled throughout Africa during the collapse of colonial rule. As a result, his interpretive essay captures the dynamism of that period of transformation and adroitly analyzes Africa's modern political developments during the nascent process of decolonization. Africa: The Politics of Unity, published six years later, examines the African unity movement that arose between 1957 and 1965 and its revolutionary core. It is often considered the first thorough analysis of the postindependence history of Africa."--Back cover.

Subjects

• Since 1960
• History
• Pan-Africanism
• Africa > History > 1960-
• Nationalism > Africa
• Africa > Politics and government

Genre/Form

History

Note

• First work originally published: Africa, the politics of independence. New York : Vintage Books, 1961; 2nd work originally published: Africa, the politics of unity. New York : Vintage Books, 1967.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Africa before the Europeans came -- The Colonial era -- The social change -- The reaction -- The different European legacies -- Independence and after -- Internal unity: parties and heroes -- Larger unities: Pan-Africanism and regional federations -- Cultural revival -- Africa and the world -- Prospects for democracy.

ISBN

• 9780803298569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0803298560 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005015324

OCLC

• 60590049
• SCSB-12725614

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library