1. Africa
   Problems in the Transition to Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   The obstacles and strategies in the transition from inherited colonial and capitalist economies toward socialism are the topics of this title. New information and political insights make this the first serious attempt to explore the important questions thrown up by the experiences of those African states that have tried to break with prevailing neo-colonial patterns.
2. Africa
   What Can Be Done?
   Resource Type: Book
   Explores the concepts and strategies needed by radical forces in Africa if they are to play an effective role in lifting the continent out of economic stagnation and political repression. The author's investigations are grounded in the thinking of a new generation of African intellectuals. These scholars and political activists often disagree, but they are united in their belief that genuine independence can be guaranteed only if Africa takes a socialist path.
3. Africa in Crisis
   The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
   Resource Type: Book
   Africa in Crisis looks at the causes of African famine and how it is a symbol of a much deeper crisis. African droughts and famines are not just the results of a lack of rain but the end result of a long deterioration in the ability of Africans to feed themselves caused by mistakes made by governments both inside and outside the continent.
4. Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   This is an easy to understand economic report on the joint relation between U.S. policies in Africa and jobs, income and investment in the U. S. Southeast. Seidman examines how the daily realities of life are shaped by the American support of apartheid.
5. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969   Published: 1983
   A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
6. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
7. The Crisis in African Agriculture
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   Why is Africa no longer able to feed itself? Lamine Gokou poses this question against a background of meticulous evidence charting the dimensions of the Continent's agricultural decline. He shows what has happened to overall food production, grain output, and levels of nutrition. He argues that the solution to Africa's food crisis must be primarily political. Technical measures can only work once African peoples have taken control of their own societies.
8. Eritrea
   Struggle for Independence
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   One of the longest and most bitter nationalist struggles in Africa is being fought in Eritrea. The Horn of Africa has been the scene of tremendous levels of political upheaval, famine and intermittent war. At the centre of these regional problems is the question of the rights of self-determination of various submerged nationalities. The Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is perhaps the most costly human tragedy to afflict the region in the last quarter century.
9. Land, Freedom and Fiction
   History and Ideology in Kenya
   Resource Type: Book
   A unique exploration of the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence was mirrored in the novels of settler writers, English authors at home, and subsequently indigenous Kenyan novelists. The author explores the relationships between historical events, the myths that are cultivated to serve particular social interests, and literary creation.
10. Nationalization
    A Road to Socialism?
    Resource Type: Book
    In this study, Dianne Bolton takes the example of Tanzania to explore whether nationalization has altered relations of production in the agricultural export sector, and improved the position of workers. She finds close continuities between colonial and post-colonial Tanzania, and similarities between the nationalized and remaining private sisal plantations.
11. Nelson Mandela
    The Struggle Is My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
12. The Next Liberation Struggle
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
13. On Transforming Africa
    Discourse with Africa's Leaders
    Resource Type: Book
    Hadjor believes that people have stopped asking questions about Africa. The depth of Africa's crisis seems to evoke passivity rather than serious discussion about solutions. But Hadjor argues that with Africa on the verge of a historic disaster, silence would be criminal. On Transforming Africa attempts to provide an explanation of the failures of the past and to force embarrassing issues out into the open.
14. A Political Economy of the African Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The economies of almost all African countries are in a state of crisis, and in some cases actual disintegration. This is a crisis not of natural disasters, but of human making, and in dramatic detail, Professor Onimode shows how this is now reflected in African countries' contracting economies, soaring unemployment, mounting external debts, and periodic outbreaks of famine. He examines the role of multinational corporations, the export of capital, and class and economic distortions.
15. Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    In this book, leading African and Caribbean scholars examine the forms of popular alliance being forged, the demands for 'a second independence', and what they may presage for the future of the Continent. Theoretical questions concerning the nature of the state in Africa - the context of local class formations and the global pressures of capitalism - are explored in essays by Harry Goulbourne, Abdelali Doumou, and Samir Amin.
16. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Africa
    Essays in Contemporary Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    In this collection of essays, one of Africa's most eminent political scientists investigates crucial problems confronting the African continent: its chronic instability and sectional conflict, the nature of class rule and the failure of the post-colonial state to deliver on the promises of independence. The relevance of Marxist theory to an understanding of Africa's social reality is explored, and a theory of national liberation, based on the ideas of Amilcar Cabral, developed.
17. The Rise and Fall of Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-1984
    Resource Type: Book
    The result of a year's intensive investigations before the coup that toppled the Shagari government, this work is a comprehensive account of the past four years of civilian rule in Nigeria. This book analyses the social and economic forces underlying the sweep of political events, and accelerating contradictions that precipitated the latest coup. Falola and Ihonvbere are two of Nigeria's leading marxist historians and writers.
18. The Silent Revolution in Africa
    Debt, Development and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Cheru ascribes the crisis in Africa to its origins as export-led development rather than the natural factors such as drought and famine. He praises the evolution of ordinary Africans opting out of the formal market and the IMF.
19. Small country, big struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Swaziland suffers a repressive and corrupt regime.
20. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
21. We Are the Poors
    Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Follows the growth of the most unexpected community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.
22. World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host the event. President Thabo Mbeki calls the premier soccer tournament “a golden opportunity to showcase Africa to the world” and adds that the South African government is determined to “show that the African renaissance is upon us and Africa’s time has come.”
23. Zimbabwe: One state, one faith, one lord
    Resource Type: Article
    The one-party system of Zimbabwe.

Experts on Politique africaine in the Sources Directory

1. African Development Bank
2. African Union