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Monograph on socialism in Africa south of Sahara - analyses political developments since 1945 in selected African countries, foreign policy, development policy, role of the state, external debt and multinational enterprises, socialist political leadership, constraints on implementation of political ideology, social structure, public ownership of means of production, cooperative farming, collective farming, national liberation movements, etc. Bibliography pp. 417 to 426, references and statistical tables.
Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this book tells the story of Tanzania's socialist experiment: the ujamaa villagization initiative of 1967-75. Inaugurated shortly after independence, ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) both invoked established socialist themes and departed from the existing global repertoire of development policy, seeking to reorganize the Tanzanian countryside into communal villages to achieve national development. Priya Lal investigates how Tanzanian leaders and rural people creatively envisioned ujamaa and documents how villagization unfolded on the ground, without affixing the project to a trajectory of inevitable failure. By forging an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of ujamaa, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania restores a sense of possibility and process to the early years of African independence, refines prevailing theories of nation building and development, and expands our understanding of the 1960s and 70s world.
Following his two widely-read volumes of essays, Saul projects his analysis of the economic and social structure of southern Africa in relation to the rest of the world forward into the new millennium. Painstakingly confronting central questions related to the practice of war and peace and to the prospects for democracy and development throughout the continent, Saul emphasises that the problems of Africa are continually shaped by its insertion in the global capitalist system, and suggests that the struggle for socialism must be a part of the solution for contemporary Africa.
Socialism emerged in sub-Saharan Africa in the late 195Os as the first colonized territories gained independence. African Socialist leaders, including Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, Sekou Toure in Guinea, and Modibo Keita in Mali, believed that Africa's traditional societies had characteristics compatible with socialism. In the l970s, African Socialist thinking led several new regimes to embrace Marxism-Leninism. They have become known as Afrocommunist governments because they lack class distinctions and interpret Marxism-Leninism as an ideology that could be adapted to local circumstances and implemented free of Soviet domination. The Marxist-Leninist orientation of the military regimes in Congo, Benin, and Madagascar was proclaimed by fiat, partly in reaction to French neocolonialism, but primarily because it provided the rulers with the means to consolidate power. In the Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, national liberation movements were led by Marxist-Leninist ideologues who had been influenced by members of the Portuguese Communist Party during their student years in Lisbon. The leading theorist among them was Alnilcar Cabral, whose ideas on the application of Marxist-Leninist ideology to Africa provided all three nationalist movements with the foundations of their policies. Ethiopia, never having been colonized, experienced the emergence of Marxism-Leninism as an outgrowth of an internal social upheaval, a government overthrow, and the establishment of a ruling Marxist-Leninist party. Afrocommunism in the 4 countries in which the Marxist-Leninist parties maintain party-to-party relations with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, and Mozambique - is probably more entrenched there than elsewhere in Africa. (KAR).
The essay, with a bibliographic supplement, is designed to aid interested researchers in assessing the present influence and impact of communism in sub-Saharan Africa. It is divided into two parts. Part One is an essay that covers the aims, strategy, and tactics of the Soviet Union; the Communist Chinese efforts and role; the roles of other Communist countries; Communist influence in African political movements; and the future of communism in Africa. Part Two is a bibliographic supplement, 'A Selected Bibliography on Communism in Sub-Saharan Africa.'
Economic analysis, capitalist economic development, economic theory of dependence, Africa south of Sahara - colonialism in Lesotho 1890-1930, capitalism, state intervention in Kenya and Nigeria, African socialism, economic policy in Guinea 1958-1981 and Mali 1960- 1982, export-oriented capitalist farming, public expenditure Cote d' Ivoire. Graphs, references.
Corbridge provides a fascinating review of the conflict of interest between metropolitan capitalism and the development of the periphery of the modern world system.