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Title: | Peasants and Nationalism: An African Overview |
Author: | Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | Pan-African Journal |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 263-267 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | farmers nationalism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | An overview of several books and articles on peasants and nationalism in Africa. The writers discussed are: Emerson, R. (colonialism was a school for democracy); Hodgkin, Th. (Africans learned the lessons of resistance to colonial rule from their own local histories); Lonsdale, J.M. (peasants' revolt threw up its own leaders); Iliffe, J. (to explain a rebellion the causes alone are insufficient; the organizational possibility must also be demonstrated), Ranger, T.O. (the commitment of large masses to a resistance on large scale was possible because of the emergence of a leadership which was charismatic and revolutionary rather than hereditary and bureaucratic). According to the author the masse played a decisive rule in the African independence movements - a noble task which remains their responsibility in Southern Africa. Notes. |