1st Edition

African Nationalism and Revolution

Edited By Gregory Maddox Copyright 1993

    The study o f African history as an academic discipline is a rather new field and one that still has its detractors both w ithin and outside academics. This collection o f articles highlights for students and scholars the modern era in African history. It brings together published research on the colonial era in Africa, an era relatively brief but one that saw
    dramatic change in African societies.

    Series Introduction vii
    Volume Introduction xi
    Nationalist Historians in Search of a Nation:
    The ‘New Historiography’ in Dar Es Salaam
    Donald Denoon and Adam Kuper 1
    Ethnicity and National Integration in West Africa
    /. Wallerstein 23
    The Roots of African Despotism: The Question of
    Political Culture
    Ibrahim K. Sundiata 35
    In Lieu of Orthodoxy: The Socialist Theories of Nkrumah
    and Nyerere
    Steven Metz 59
    Ethnicity and Leadership in Africa: The ‘Untypical’ Case
    o f Tom Mboya
    David Goldsworthy 75
    The State of Ambivalence: Right and Left Options in Ghana
    Judith Marshall 95
    Military Violence Against Civilians: The Case of the Congolese
    and Zairean Military in the Pedicle, 1890—1988
    Mwelwa C. Musambachime 109
    The Social Origins of Ugandan Presidents: From King
    to Peasant Warrior
    Ali A . Mazrui 131
    Uganda Before, During, and After Amin
    Bert N. Adams 153
    The Movements of National Liberation
    Basil Davidson 165
    The Revolution in Portugal’s African Colonies: A Review Essay
    John S. Saul 181
    The Nationalist Revolution in Eritrea
    John Markakis 203
    VI Contents
    The Death of Chaminuka: Spirit Mediums, Nationalism,
    and the Guerilla W ar in Zimbabwe
    Terence Ranger 223
    The Zimbabwean War of Liberation: Struggles W ithin
    the Struggle
    Norma Kriger 244
    Obstacles to Guerrilla Warfare— A South African Case Study
    Sheridan Johns 263
    Rethinking the ‘Race-Class Debate’ in South African
    Historiography
    Deborah Posel 300
    Street Sociology and Pavement Politics: Aspects of Youth
    and Student Resistance in Cape Town, 1985
    Colin Bundy 317
    Sources of Class Consciousness: South African W omen
    in Recent Labor Struggles
    Iris Berger 345
    Class Formation and Ideology: The Transkei Region
    Duncan Innes and Dan O'Meara 363
    Acknowledgments

    Biography

    Gregory Maddox