The African Condition: A Political Diagnosis

by Ali A. Mazrui

Book Overview

The noted political scientist Ali Mazrui explores six fundamental paradoxes of Africa today, focusing on Africa's key geographical position in relation to issues of economic distribution and social... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521298849
• ISBN13: 9780521298841
• Release Date: April 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Mazrui, the Universal African

Many cosmopolitan Africans are qualified to describe or analyze Africa's various blights, but few are as articulate, as insightful and charming, and as exquisitely educated as Mazrui. He is irreverent without being cynical, he assigns blame and assumes it, and at the same time he campaigns for a sign of justice in a world rampant with ravenous greed and heartless corruption, within the framework of a leadership gap. No part of the world has suffered so much from this as the African continent, so diverse it suffers in a variety of ways, and so stricken its ills may never be overcome. Yet here we have a voice in Mazrui, a universal voice, that can speak to the West in the lexicon of the West.

the african condition

This book gives great insight into the connection between the blight of present day sub-saharan Africa and the colonial conquests of european powers on her soil. Mazrui reveals the heart of a living socio-political paradox that has affected the progress of African interdependence and unity revealing the weaknesses this fractured continent faces in the wake of globalization and her push to find justice for her people in a modern world. Riveting reading for the expansion of one's world view and a true understanding of what is at the heart of the African condition!