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Freedom for the Gold Coast?
In: Africa and the Future, The Union of Democratic Control, 2
The revolutionary tradition in Islam
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 138-151
ISSN: 1477-4569
Book reviews : For the Liberation of Nigeria: essays and lectures 1969-78: By YUSUFU BALA USMAN (London, New Beacon Books, 1979). 292pp. £3.45
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 421-424
ISSN: 1741-3125
The Revolutionary Tradition in Islam
In: Race & class: a journal on racism, empire and globalisation, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 221-237
ISSN: 0306-3968
The strength of the revolutionary tradition in Islam is weighed. Religions do not in themselves commit their adherents to any particular ideology, & both Islam & Christianity have had both revolutionary-democratic & conservative-authoritarian interpretations. Islam's revolutionary traditions include: Kharijism, a comparatively rationalistic & near-anarchist movement; Mahdism, a more populist approach; & the theories of Jamal-al-din al-Afghani & Sultan Galiyev. A number of ideas held in common by Islam & Marxism are identified. W. H. Stoddard.
The revolutionary tradition in Islam
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 221-237
ISSN: 1741-3125
Book reviews : Révolutionnaires Vietnamiens et Pouvoir Colonial en Indochine: Communistes, Trotskystes, Nationalistes à Saigon de 1932 à 1937 By DANIEL HEMERY (Paris, Francois Maspero, 1975). 526pp. Fr. 70
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 187-192
ISSN: 1741-3125
Book reviews : With My Own Eyes: Israel and the Occupied Territories 1967-73 By FELICIA LANCER, foreword by ISRAEL SHAHAK (London, Ithaca Press, 1975). 166 pp. Paper £2.50
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 434-436
ISSN: 1741-3125
The Vietnamese Revolution and Some Lessons: For Basil Davidson on his Sixtieth Birthday
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 233-249
ISSN: 1741-3125
Ancient Ghana and Mali
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 72, Heft 289, S. 454-455
ISSN: 1468-2621
Ghana: End of an Illusion by Bob Fitch and Mary Oppenheimer New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1966. Pp. x + 130. 25s
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 381-384
ISSN: 1469-7777
Islam, History, and Politics
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 91-97
ISSN: 1469-7777
It is not, I imagine, necessary to argue in this Journal (whose birth I welcome) that the study of African politics should never be separated from the study of African history. There was a time when the political institutions of African states (except in a few special cases, such as Ethiopia) meant 'colonial political institutions, together with such indigenous African institutions as had been permitted to survive within the colonial framework'. For students of colonial government the study of African history had no obvious relevance. For those who wished to explain such institutions as Legislative Councils in British-controlled territories, Communes Mixtes in French-controlled territories, or the Conseil de Gouvernement in the Belgian Congo, the history of the European state which had imposed the institution was understandably more significant than the histories of the African peoples upon whom it had been imposed. As for such indigenous African political systems as had survived, in a modified form, within the colonial administrative structure, their study was—by a kind of unwritten convention—left to the social anthropologists, whose historical interests varied according to the character of the system and the approach of the anthropologist.
Labour Problems in West Africa
In: International affairs, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 254-254
ISSN: 1468-2346