Proletarianization and Class Struggle in Africa
Author: Bernard Magubane
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
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The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
Author: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1780329407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over many years to establish democratic institutions at home and free themselves from foreign exploitation; indeed these are two aspects of a single project. Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja is one of his country's leading intellectuals and his panoramic understanding of the personalities and events, as well as class, ethnic and other factors, make his book a lucid, radical and utterly unromanticized account of his countrymen's struggle. His people's defeat and the state's post-colonial crisis are seen as resulting from a post-independence collapse of the anti-colonial alliance between the masses and the national leadership . This book is essential reading for understanding what is happening in the Congo and the Great Lakes region under the rule of the late President Kabila, and now his son. It will also stand as a milestone in how to write the modern political history of Africa.
Revolutionary Pressures in Africa
Author: Claude Ake
Publisher: London : Zed Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClass Struggle and Resistance in Africa
Author: Leo Zeilig
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1608460568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.
Class Formation and Civil Society
Author: Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0429866992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.
Class Struggles in Zambia, 1889-1989 & the Fall of Kenneth Kaunda, 1990-1991
Author: M. Hamalengwa
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an attempt at an outline of working class struggle in Zambia between 1889 and 1989. The working class in pre-independence and post-independence Zambia has performed an exemplary role in the struggle for social liberation for the working class as well as the general population. Their history deserves to be told as fully as research materials allow.
Economic Crisis, Civil Society, and Democratization
Author: Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780865435018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe transition from an authoritarian to an egalitarian form of government is a major paradigm shift for any society. When the forces of opposition remain major players, however, the transition is bound to be tumultuous. In this, the first major book on post-UNIP Zambia, the author chronicles the transition to democracy in Zambia and in doing so sheds light on the challenges for democratisation in post-Cold War Africa.
Transnational Labour History
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1351877909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are essential, it is only by comparing and contrasting the experiences across time and space that a true understanding of the subject can be attempted. Professor Marcel van der Linden, has contributed much to the debate on cross-border processes and comparisons. This volume makes available in English a collection of twelve of his most important essays on the theme of transnational labour history. Previously published in a range of journals and volumes, with two original contributions, Transnational Labour History brings them together in a single convenient collection, together with a new introduction. This work will undoubtedly provide an invaluable resource for all students of European labour history.
Reclaiming Africa
Author: Sam Moyo
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9811058407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the findings of research conducted by scholars and activists associated with the Agrarian South Network, based mainly in Africa, Asia and Latina America. The research articulates a Southern perspective on the “new scramble” for Africa, with a view to strengthen tri-continental solidarities. The book explains the significance of the new scramble in terms of the economic structures inherited from the late-nineteenth-century scramble and the subsequent post-independence period. The renewed competition for Africa’s land and natural resources and the resumption of economic growth at the turn of the millennium have revived concerns regarding the continent’s position in the world economy and the prospects for its development in the twenty-first century. In this regard, the book addresses two related issues: the character of the expansion of Southern competitors in relation to the more established Western strategies; and the impact of the renewed influx of investments in land, minerals, and associated infrastructure. The findings are presented with empirical rigor and conceptual clarity, to enable the reader to grasp what really is at stake in the twenty-first century – an epic struggle to reclaim Africa from the monopolies that exercise control over its land, minerals, labour, and destiny.
Philosophy of African American Studies
Author: Stephen Ferguson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1137549971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this ground-breaking book, Stephen C. Ferguson addresses a seminal question that is too-often ignored: What should be the philosophical basis for African American studies? The volume explores philosophical issues and problems in their relationship to Black studies. Ferguson shows that philosophy is not a sterile intellectual pursuit, but a critical tool to gathering knowledge about the Black experience. Cultural idealism in various forms has become enormously influential as a framework for Black studies. Ferguson takes on the task of demonstrating how a Marxist philosophical perspective offers a productive and fruitful way of overcoming the limitations of idealism. Focusing on the hugely popular Afrocentric school of thought, this book’s engaging discussion shows that the foundational arguments of cultural idealism are based on a series of analytical and historical misapprehensions. In turn, Ferguson argues for the centrality of the Black working class—both men and women—to Black Studies.
