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Summary:
The Second
World War was a turning point in the history of Africa. African
men fought in European armies and the continent was a war zone.
The political destabilization of the colonial powers led to the
emergence of African independence movements and political parties.
Starting in the 1960s, once decolonization was under way, Africa
as a whole had its first experience of independence and a new
political and economic life. But the coups
d’etat, civil and inter-African wars from the 1970s onwards
demonstrate the problems of modern development in an unfavourable
international environment.
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editions
Main
edition
English: |
1993, Heinemann/ UNESCO/
University of California Press |
French: |
1998, UNESCO |
Arabic: |
1999, UNESCO |
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Abridged
edition
English: |
1999, UNESCO/ James
Currey/ University of California Press |
French: |
1998, UNESCO/ Edicef/ Présence
Africaine |
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Chapter 1 : Introduction
A. A. MAZRUI
SECTION I: AFRICA IN A DECADE OF WORLD CONFLICTS, 1935-1945
Chapter 2: The Horn and North Africa, 1935-1945: crises and change
T. CHENNTOUF
Chapter 3: Tropical and equatorial Africa under French, Portuguese and Spanish
domination, 1935-1945
M. DIOP, in collaboration with D. BIRMINGHAM, I. HRBEK, A. MARGARIDO
and D. T.
NIANE
Chapter 4: Africa under British and Belgian domination, 1935-1945
Michael CROWDER
SECTION II: THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL SOVEREIGNTY: FROM 1945 TO
INDEPENDENCE
Chapter 5: Seek ye first the political kingdom
A. A. MAZRUI
Chapter 6 : North Africa and the Horn
I. HRBEK
Chapter 7: West Africa, 1945-1960
J. SURET-CANALE & A. A. BOAHEN
Chapter 8: Equatorial West Africa
E. M'BOKOLO
Chapter 9: The struggle for political sovereignty in Eastern Africa, 1945 to
independence
M. TWADDLE, in collaboration WITH L. RABEARIMANANA & I. N. KIMAMBO
Chapter 10: Southern Africa since 1945
D. CHANAIWA
SECTION III: UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC
INDEPENDENCE
Chapter 11: Economic changes in Africa in the world context
C. COQUERY-VIDROVITCH
Chapter 12: Agriculture and rural development since 1935
M. OWUSU
Chapter 13: Industrial development and urban growth, 1935-1980
P. KIPRE
Chapter 14 : Comparative strategies of economic decolonization in Africa
A. ADEDEJI
SECTION IV: SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
Chapter 15: Nation-building and changing political structures
J. I. ELAIGWU, in collaboration
with A.A. MAZRUI
Chapter l6: Nation-building and changing political values
J. KI-ZERBO, A. A.
MAZRUI and C. WONDJI, in collaboration
with A. A. BOAHEN
SECTION V: SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGE SINCE 1935
Chapter 17: Religion and social evolution
T. TSHIBANGU, in collaboration with J. F. A. AJAYI
and L. SANNEH
Chapter 18: Language and social change
A. I. SOW and M.
H. ABDULAZIZ
Chapter 19: The development of modern
literature since 1935
A. A. MAZRUI, in collaboration
with M. DE ANDRADE, M. A. ABDALOUI, D. P. KUNENE
and J.
VANSINA
Chapter 20: Arts and society since
1935
J. VANSINA
Chapter 21: Trends in philosophy and science in Africa
A. A. MAZRUI & J.
F. ADE AJAYI, in collaboration with A. Adu BOAHEN
& Tshishiku TSHIBANGU
Chapter 22: Education and social change
A. HABTE & T. WAGAW,
in collaboration with J. F. ADE AJAYI
SECTION VI: PAN-AFRICANISM: LIBERATION AND INTEGRATION SINCE
1935
Chapter 23: Africa and its Diaspora since 1935
J. E. HARRIS, in collaboration
with S. ZEGHIDOUR
Chapter 24: Pan-Africanism and regional integration
S. K. B. ASANTE, in collaboration
with D. CHANAIWA
Chapter 25: Pan-Africanism and liberation
E. KODJO and D. CHANAIWA
SECTION VII: INDEPENDENT AFRICA IN WORLD AFFAIRS
Chapter 26: Africa and the capitalist countries
D. CHINWEIZU
Chapter 27: Africa and the socialist countries
I. DER THIAM and J.
MULIRA, in collaboration with C. WONDJI
Chapter 28: Africa and the developing regions
L. EDMONSON
Chapter 29: Africa and the United Nations since 1945
E. KWAM KOUASSI
Chapter 30: Towards the year 2000
A. A. MAZRUI
Postface: Chronology of African current affairs in the 1990s
C. WONDJI
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