Three African Social Theorists on Class Struggle, Political Liberation and Indigenous Culture: Chiekh Anta Diop, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah

“This work, (in grounding the thought of the three thinkers in social and historical context), successfully attempts to correct a gap in contemporary African studies:It grounds their ideas in the urgent political struggles of their times showing their ideas and concepts to be tools-in-struggle for national independence.”
Dr. George J. Sefa Dei,
OISE, University of Toronto, Canada

“This study reveals that though the revolutionary petty bourgeoisie can launch and politically lead a revolutionary movement in Africa, they “should not be trusted to maintain it!”
Dr. Glen Reynolds,
University of Sunderland, UK

Abstract
Foreword by George J. Sefa Dei
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1 – The Politics of Marxism
Chapter 1 – Class Conflict and the State: the Politics of Marxism
Chapter 2 – Towards a Marxist Politics
Chapter 3 – Anti-Structuralism as Anti-Economism: Toward the Social Relations of Historical Change
PART 2 – The Case for a Social Historical Analysis of Political Thought: Alfred Cobban, Richard Ashcraft & Neal Wood
Chapter 4 – Alfred Cobban
Chapter 5 – Richard Ashcraft
Chapter 6 – Neil Wood
PART 3 – Class Ideology and African Political Theory
Chapter 7 – Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Nationalism in Buine-Bissau
Chapter 8 – Cheikh Anta Diop: Ancient Roots of African Political Independence
Chapter 9 – Kwame Nkrumah: Petit Bourgeois Spirit Murder and Populist Nationalism in Ghana
PART 4 – Class Ideology and the Politics of Liberation
Chapter 10 – Petty Bourgeois Class Ideology and the Politics of Liberation
Chapter 11 – Summary
End Notes
Bibliography
Index

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