The Book: Table of Contents 3 May 2006

Filed under: The African Revolution — keith @ 3:16 pm

(A book of 60,000 words for Polity Press)

Introduction

Part I The idea of Africa

  1. Africa today: ‘through a glass, darkly’

  2. Africa on my mind

  3. Africa in world history

Part II The engines of inequality

  1. Waiting for emancipation: slavery, colonialism, apartheid

  2. The intellectuals of the anti-colonial revolution

  3. ‘Development’: the post-colonial counter-revolution

Part III What happened in the twentieth century

  1. Africa’s urban revolution

  2. ‘The informal economy’: the rise of the market

  3. The explosion of the modern arts

Part IV Africa’s (neo-)liberal revolution?

  1. Moral politics and the religious revival

  2. The new diaspora in the information age

  3. A second imperialism or emancipation at last?

Guide to further reading

 

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