| African and Caribbean Politics Contributor(s): Marable, Manning (Author) |
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ISBN: 086091884X ISBN-13: 9780860918844 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1987 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General |
| Dewey: 960.3 |
| LCCN: 87200127 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.92 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What explains the proliferation of authoritarian regimes some calling themselves socialist in contemporary African and Caribbean politics? One of America s leading black scholars assesses the historical and social forces that have undermined democracy and social reform in the societies of Africa and its diaspora. In a brilliant historical sketch of the evolution of revolutionary nationalism, Marable illustrates how the legacies of slavery, forced labor and colonialism have combined to stunt the development of popular self-representation. Considering in detail the key cases of Ghana and Guyana, he explains why mass anti-colonial movements eventually decayed into personalistic and repressive cults around Nkrumah and Burnham. The core of the book is an impassioned and searching analysis of the tragic self-destruction of the Grenadian Revolution in 1983. Increasing reliance on a corrupted democratic centralism within the New Jewel Movement led to its violent implosion followed by Reagan s invasion. While defending the achievements of the martyred Bishop regime, Marable argues that African and Caribbean socialism must find new commitments to egalitarian democracy and pluralism." |