The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought Essays in Reconstruction and Retrieval Idahosa, P.L.E.

Africa World Press
Year of publishing: 2004
Place of publishing: Trenton, NJ
ISBN: 1592211003
Language: English
Series: first

Franz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral a Julius Nyerere patřili mezi tři nejvlivnější zastánce antikolonialismu a socialismu na africkém kontinentu. Tato kniha zkoumá populistické elementy v jejich myšlení a praxi, které jsou mimo rozdílnosti okolností, jakým každý z nich čelil, nezbytné k pochopení, proč každý z těchto vůdců usiloval o nastolení populistického socialismu. Autor zkoumá nejvlivnější názory na populismus a identifikuje způsoby jeho použití v Africe. Také se zabývá vztahem mezi populismem a formami politického a kulturního nacionalismu jako je například "negritude". Autor upozorňuje na specifický populismus Fanona, Cabrala a Nyerere v jejich antikapitalistických snahách o zmírnění třídních nerovností a nastolení egalitářské společnosti, založené na venkovských a rolnických institucích, které by mohly uniknout kapitalistickému rozvoji.

Franz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral and Julius Nyerere were three of Africa’s most influential activist-practioners of anti-colonialism and socialism. This book explores the populist elements in their thought and practice, which despite the different circumstances each faced, is crucial in understanding why each aspired to establish populist socialisms. Idahosa discusses some of the most influential, as well as recent, perspectives on populism, and he identifies the uses to which populism has been put in Africa. He also addresses populism’s relationship to forms of political and cultural nationalism such as Negritude. He singles out the distinctive populism of Fanon, Cabral and Nyerere in their views of an anti-capitalist commitment that attempts to diminish class inequalities and establish egalitarian societies based upon rural, peasant-based institutions that could avoid capitalist development.

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