The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going
wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of
colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic
exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer,
increasingly the result is poverty and violence. In Africa: the
Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this
question differently by reconsidering the role of theory in African
politics. Chabal discusses the limitations of existing political
theories of Africa and proposes a different starting point; arguing
that political thinking ought to be driven by the need to address
the immediacy of everyday life and death. How do people define who
they are? Where do they belong? What do they believe? How do they
struggle to survive and improve their lives? What is the impact of
illness and poverty? In doing so, Chabal proposes a radically
different way of looking at politics in Africa and illuminates the
ways ordinary people 'suffer and smile'.
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