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African and Caribbean Politics from Kwame Nkrumah to the Grenada Revolution

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What explains the proliferation of authoritarian regimes some calling themselves socialist in recent African and Caribbean politics Certainly one of The usa s leading black scholars assesses the historical and social forces that have undermined democracy and social reform within the societies of Africa and its diaspora In a brilliant historical sketch of the evolution of revolutionary nationalism Marable illustrates how the legacies of slavery forced labor and colonialism have combined to stunt the development of popular self representation Making an allowance for in detail the important thing cases of Ghana and Guyana he explains why mass anti colonial movements in the end decayed into personalistic and repressive cults around Nkrumah and Burnham The core of the book is an impassioned and searching analysis of the tragic self destruction of the Grenadian Revolution in 1983 Increasing reliance on a corrupted democratic centralism throughout the New Jewel Movement led to its violent implosion followed by Reagan s invasion At the same time as defending the achievements of the martyred Bishop regime Marable argues that African and Caribbean socialism should find new commitments to egalitarian democracy and pluralism

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