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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.
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