New Publications by Members
Guy Martin,”African Political Thought” (New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
(From the back cover):
This definitive study surveys the concepts, values, and historical upheavals that have shaped African political systems from the ancient period to the post-colonial era and beyond. Beginning with the emergence of indigenous political institutions, it traces the most important developments in African history, including the Africanization of Islam, liberal democratic movements, socialism, Pan-Africanism, and Africanist-Populist reistance to the neo-liberal world order. The result is an invaluable resource on a region too often ignored in the history of political thought.
“In this excellent book, Guy Martin has conducted the most comprehensive study of African political thought by masterfully examining the various philosophical strands. As well, he systematically probed the historical development of each ideology from antiquity to present, including the significant, but under-researched contributions of indigenous African political system. This book is a must-read for those who are interested in African political philosophy” (George Klay Kieh, Jr., Professor of Political Science, University of West Georgia, USA).
The book’s page on the Palgrave website is: http//us.macmillan.com/african political thought
Guy Martin, Ph.D.is Professor of Political Science,Department of Social Sciences,Coltrane Hall 216,Winston-Salem State University
601 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
Campus Box 19484
Winston-Salem, NC 27110-0001
Tel: (336) 750-3228
Fax: (336) 750-2647
E-mail: martingu@wssu.edu or guy2martin@yahoo.com
Johnson W. Makoba, Rethinking Development Strategies in Africa: The Triple Partnership as an Alternative Approach – The Case of Uganda. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011; Africa in Development. Vol. 5 ISBN 978-3-03911-948-6; XVIII, 269 pp. more >>
Mueni wa Muiu, The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; ISBN-13:978-0-230-60815-3; ISBN-10:0-230-60815-9; 239 PP., including bibliography and index
Title: Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries:
A Constructive Discourse in State Building
Editor: Santosh Saha
Publisher: Lexington Books
Year of Publication: 2008
Discounted Price: $55.25 (15% off)
List Price: $65.00
Cloth 0-7391-2332-7 / 978-0-7391-2332-4
Mar 2008 266pp
To Purchase Copies: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/catalog (Type in “Santosh Saha” in Author space)
According to Clayton J. Peoples, University of Nevada, Reno, “Saha has put together an impressive set of new articles and essays that challenge the conventional pessimistic view of ethnicity as a negative force in African and other developing nations, instead illustrating the positive role of ethnicity in political and social life. This is a refreshing perspective on the value of ethnic diversity at a time when ethnicity is too often cited as the primary source of social ills and conflict. It is therefore a valuable book for anyone seeking a more balanced perspective on the multifaceted—and potentially positive—role of ethnicity in the developing world.”
This edited collection of essays answers a basic question posed by contemporary discourse on state building: How might people’s identification with a particular ethnic group matter? Essays in this book use an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding regional and local community culture and socio-political development in developing countries-especially in Sub-Saharan Africa-to argue that the state, as well as civil society, confers on cultural differences a legitimacy that can be achieved in no other way but by positive cooperation. Contributors from different countries look at local patterns in state building and modernization as they have unfolded over the course of the last fifty years. They claim that the people and ethnic groups in most developing countries adhere to a concept of popular sovereignty that testifies that aspects of positive and moral ethnicity can contribute to social change as in China, economic development as in India, or in a democratization process as in Rwanda and Burundi. The eventual methodological assumption made by these essays presumes that ethnic conflicts in such countries as Cyprus, Turkey, India, and Rwanda have no moral sanction; ethnicity has not assumed a political ideology. One conclusion reached by the contributors is that some form of accommodation between opposing ethnically diversified groups, as well as between state and ethnic elements, is feasible.
Table of Contents for Ethnicity and Sociopolitical Change in Africa and Other Developing Countries:
A Constructive Discourse in State Building.
Moral Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan African National Identity Issues: Ethnicity and State-Building
*Santosh C. Saha
Reconstructing or Dismantling the Nation? A New Rwanda
* Helen M. Hintjens
Education for Social Change in Burundi and Rwanda: Creating a National Identity beyond the Politics of Ethnicity
* Elavie Ndura and Johnson W. Makoba
Rwanda-Burundi’s “National-Ethnic” Dilemma: Democracy, Deep Divisions and Conflict Re-Represent
* Rita Kiki Edozie
Overstating the Connection between Ethnicity and Military Coups D’Etats in Africa: A Meta-analysis
* Abdul Karim Bangura
Other Developing Countries: Third-Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Turkey’s Intervention in Cyprus and Role Theory
* Gaurav Ghose
Ethnicity and the Role of Education as a Mechanism for National Unity in China
* Gerard Postiglione
Ethnic and Civil Nationhood in India: Concept, History, Institutional Innovations and Contemporary Challenges
* Harihar Bhattacharyya
The Palestinians and the Kurds: A Comparative Analysis
* Nader Entessar and Mir Zohair Husain
Above information contributed by: Abdul Karim Bangura, Howard University, theai@earthlink.net
Title: Africa and the New Globalization (192 PP +index), 2008
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company, United Kingdom
Editor: George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Contributors: George Klay Kieh, Jr., P.I. Idahosa, Jack Mangala, John Mbaku, E.Ike Udogu, all members of the ASRF/ATWS family; and Amy Paterson, a friend of the ASRF/ATWS family
To Purchase Copies: http://www.ashgatepublishing.com
The Editor, George Klay Kieh, Jr., has this to say:
” I would like to thank John Mbaku, the former President of the African Studies and Research Forum, Ike Udogu, the former Director of Research and Publications, Moju Okome, the current President of the ASRF, and Abdul Karim Bangura, the current Director of Research and Publications of the ASRF, for their support which helped make the publication of the book a reality.”
Authors: Erin McCandless and Karim Bangura; Editors: Mary
E. King and Ebrima Sall. Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology
United Nations for Peace Press, 2007.
To order a copy contact the following:
University for Peace
Africa Programme
PO Box 2794, Code 1250
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Telephone: +251.11.6180991
E-mail: africaprogramme@upeace.org
Web Site: www.africa.upeace.org
University for Peace
Geneva Office
5, Chemin du Rivage
1292 Chambesy/Geneva, Switzerland
Telephone: +41.22.737.3080
E-mail: info@peace.ch
Web Site: w.w.w. Upeace.org
George Kieh, Liberia’s First Civil War: The Crisis of Underdevelopment, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.
The book can be purchased from:
Peter Lang Publishing USA
29 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Telephone: 800-770LANG
E-mail: customerservice@plang.com
Internet: www.peterlang.com
Shu-hui Wu, Lien Heng (1878-1936): Taiwan’s Search for Identity and Tradition, Indiana University, 2005.
This book can be purchased through:
Center for Inner Asian Studies
Goodbody Hall 344
Indiana University
1011 East 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
Phone: 812-855-1605 (office)
Fax: 812-855-7500
E-mail: rifias @ indiana.edu
