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Political discourses in African thought : 1860 to the present
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Political discourses in African thought : 1860 to the present

Author: Pieter Boele van Hensbroek
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text offers insight into the history of African political thought, as well as an analytical framework to clarify contemporary African discourses on democracy. Discussions from 19th-century  Read more...

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Boele van Hensbroek, Pieter, 1954-
Political discourses in African thought.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999
(OCoLC)607124866
Online version:
Boele van Hensbroek, Pieter, 1954-
Political discourses in African thought.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999
(OCoLC)631955143
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pieter Boele van Hensbroek
ISBN: 0275964949 9780275964948
OCLC Number: 39905780
Description: viii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Fathoming Contemporary African Political Thought: Hermeneutical, Analytical, and Critical Tasks --
The Era of the Confrontation --
The Interpretation of Political Discourses --
Writing African Intellectual History: Two Examples --
The Problem of Anachronism --
The Historical Hermeneutics of Quentin Skinner: "Words are Deeds" --
Exemplars in Political Thought --
Confronting the European Challenge: Discourses in Nineteenth-Century African Political Thought --
The Historical Context of the West African Enclaves --
The Discourse of Mid-Victorian Optimism: Africanus Horton --
The Discourse of African Regeneration: Edward Wilmot Blyden --
The Discourse of Indigenous Self-Rule: The Protection Society and Casely Hayford --
From "Unbound Africa" to "New Africa": African Political Discourses under Colonial Rule --
The Historical Context, 1900-1950 --
Ethnographic Texts and the Discourses of the Cultural Associations --
Manifesto Texts and the Discourses of the Youth Movements --
Political Analyses and the Discourses of the Leagues --
Post-Colonial African Political Discourses --
Kwame Nkrumah --
Modernization Discourses --
The Discourses of African Socialism --
The Discourses of Revolutionary Struggle --
Three Basic Types of Discourse --
Authentic Africa --
Modern Africa --
Liberated Africa --
Toward a Grammar of Modern African Political Thought --
The Discourse on Democracy in Africa --
The Context of African Political Thought in the 1990s --
Democracy Discourses --
Three Democratic Turns, Three Democracy Discourses.
Responsibility: Pieter Boele van Hensbroek.

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