Designing West Africa: Prelude to 21st Century Calamity

ISBN-13: 9781349528899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 177 str.

Peter Schwab; P. Schwab

Opis

A noted authority makes a provocative argument that the fate of the African continent was decided in its first decade of independence

Recenzje

Praise for Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs:

"For anyone interested in the reality of Africa, this is the book to read." - Amos Sawyer, President of Liberia, 1990-1994

"Offers brief, invaluable descriptions of several countries circumstances...readers will gain much from this astute analysis." - Publishers Weekly

Spis treści

Introduction: U.S., European, and West African Ideological Designs The Conservatives William V.S. Tubman: Liberia's Conservative Designer Félix Houphouët-Boigny: A French Client in the Ivory Coast Senegal and Léopold Sédar Senghor: Francophile Nation and Poet Nigeria: The State that Lost its Future The Radicals Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana's Nationalist Icon Sékou Touré: Guinea's Fidel Castro, and His Connection to the Political Thought of Mali's Modibo Keita Conclusion: The Appalling Aftermath

O autorze

PETER SCHWAB is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, USA, and the author most recently of Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs (Palgrave 2001).