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The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the
establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara
government. A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the
first complete account of the political history of the former
British West African dependency to be written. It makes use of much
hitherto unconsulted or unavailable British and Gambian official
and private documentary sources, as well as interviews with many
Gambian politicians and former British colonial officials. The
first part of the book charts the origins and characteristics of
modern politics in colonial Bathurst (Banjul) and its expansion
into the Gambian interior (Protectorate) in the two decades after
World War II. By independence in 1965, older urban-based parties in
the capital had been defeated bya new, rural-based political
organisation, the People's Progressive Party (PPP). The second part
of the book analyzes the means by which the PPP, under President
Sir Dawda Jawara, succeeded in defeating both existing and new
rival political parties and an attempted coup in 1981. The book
closes with an explanation of the demise of the PPP at the hands of
an army coup in 1994. The book not only establishes those
distinctive aspects ofGambian political history, but also relates
these to the wider regional and African context, during the
colonial and independence periods.
The collapse of Marxism in much of the Third World as well as
Europe was so sudden and spectacular that it is hard to believe
that in the space of seven years The Journal of Communist Studies
could bring out special issues both on the creation of 'Military
Marxist Regimes in Africa', and on their demise and the wider
collapse of Marxist governments on the continent. This volume,
first published in 1992, derives from a roundtable on the theme of
'The Retreat from Moscow: African and Eastern European Experiences
of Disengagement from Marxism', held at the University of
Birmingham in September 1991. The conference examined the recent
experiences of African countries in transition from Marxism and
Marxist-influenced ideologies to an uncertain future based on the
market economy and a plural political system.
The collapse of Marxism in much of the Third World as well as
Europe was so sudden and spectacular that it is hard to believe
that in the space of seven years The Journal of Communist Studies
could bring out special issues both on the creation of 'Military
Marxist Regimes in Africa', and on their demise and the wider
collapse of Marxist governments on the continent. This volume,
first published in 1992, derives from a roundtable on the theme of
'The Retreat from Moscow: African and Eastern European Experiences
of Disengagement from Marxism', held at the University of
Birmingham in September 1991. The conference examined the recent
experiences of African countries in transition from Marxism and
Marxist-influenced ideologies to an uncertain future based on the
market economy and a plural political system.
"Africa for the Africans" was the name given to the extraordinary
movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes
I-VII of the "Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Association Papers "chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished
in the United States during the 1920s. Now, the long-awaited
African volumes of this edition demonstrate clearly the central
role Africans played in the development of the Garvey phenomenon.
The African volumes provide the first authoritative account of how
Africans transformed Garveyism into an African social movement. The
most extensive collection of documents ever gathered on the early
African nationalism of the interwar period, Volume X provides a
detailed chronicle of the spread of Garvey's call for African
redemption throughout Africa.
A collection of poems whose fixation in time and subject matter
ranges from the romantic to the political to the phantasmal. The
images portrayed give a sense that years separate the events and
emotions inspiring them. Though they are based on the experiences
of one person still they seem to inspire in the reader something
akin to dj vu which may occasionally cause the hair follicles to
stand on end.
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