Author Martin, Guy, 1945- author.

Title African Political Thought / Guy Martin.

Pub Info New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Edition 1st ed.

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgments					ix
	List of Acronyms					xi
	Introduction: African Political Thought from Antiquity to the Present					1
1.	The Political Ideology of Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century					11
2.	The Influence of Islamic Values and Ideas on Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions from the Tenth to the Nineteenth Century					21
3.	African Theories and Ideologies of Westernization, Modernization, and Liberal Democracy from Early West African Nationalism to Humanism					43
4.	Pan-Africanism and African Unity: From Ideal to Practice					55
5.	The Socialist-Populist Ideology I: From Patrice Lumumba to Samora Machel					71
6.	The Socialist-Populist Ideology II: From Kwame Nkrumah to Julius Nyerere					85
7.	The Populist-Socialist Ideology: From Frantz Fanon to Steve Biko					105
8.	The Africanist-Populist Ideology: Popular Democracy and Development in Africa					129
	Conclusion: The Transformative Power of Ideas and Values: Toward Peace, Development, and Democracy in Africa					153
	Notes					159
	Bibliography					187
	Index					213