| Abstract: | Analysis of the strategies former liberation movements in Africa have pursued once in power, and the obstacles they have encountered in their attempted transitions to socialism. It contains the following contributions: 1)'Introduction' by Barry Munslow; 2)'Marxism in Africa: the grounding of a tradition' by Robin Cohen; 3)'The left in Africa today' by Ben Turok; 4)'Women and the transition to socialism in sub-Saharan Africa' by Bie Nio Ong (on Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe); 5)'Practice and the theory: Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde' by Basil Davidson; 6)'People's power: the case of Mozambique' by Bertil Egero; and 7)'Establishing the conditions for socialism: the case of Angola' by M.R. Bhagavan |