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Title: | The nationalities question and socio-political problems of the emerging countries: (the example of Africa) |
Author: | Entin, L.M. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Africa in Soviet Studies |
Pages: | 47-55 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
Subjects: | development ethnicity plural society |
Abstract: | One of the many grave challenges facing Africa today is the national question. Young States have inherited from colonialism considerable imbalances in ethnic and regional development, as the Republic of Chad shows. Efforts aimed at levelling out the development standards of various ethnoregional groups fail because of internal causes (shortage of resources, conservative customs) and external causes: ethnic and national contradictions are fanned and perpetuated by imperialist forces. Bourgeois political scientists like to make a distinction between the plural society in developing countries with totalitarian and dictatorial regimes and the pluralistic society in Western countries with democratic regimes. They also like to see postcolonial society in Afro-Asian countries as something stagnant and immanent and link the possibility of overcoming backwardness and dependence with capitalist development. The emergence today of a large group of African countries which have chosen the path of socialist orientation reaffirms the possibility of a progressive solution to the nationalities question in conditions under which the struggle for national emancipation develops into the struggle for social emancipation of working people. Ref. |