The role of African student movements in the political and social evolution of Africa from 1900 to 1975.
Contributors: Unesco.
Series: The general history of Africa ;
Publisher: Unesco Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Student movements -- Africa -- History.; Africa -- Social conditions.; Africa -- Politics and government.
Description: Until now a key chapter has been missing from the history of contemporary Africa, namely the role played by student movements in the social and political evolution of the continent. While extensive studies have been made of the various independence movements, trades unions and so forth, little or nothing was done to give an account of student movements until very recently.

That gap has now been filled by the publication of the present work, which is Volume 12 in the series entitled 'The general history of Africa studies and documents'.

It will be seen that some of the great names associated with public life in post-independence Africa established their reputations long before as leading lights in the student movements, e.g. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Hastings Banda, Cheikh Anta Diop, Jomo Kenyatta, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow and Kwame Nkrumah, to mention but a few. They stepped from those student platforms straight into the political or trades-union arena.

There are rich pickings for researchers who would compare the ideas that those figures upheld as students with the choices they were later to make in administrating their states. One of the authors of the present work inquires whether there has been genuine class struggle or mere jockeying for position. However, that is outside the scope of the present work and the answer should be sought in the individual biographies of these eminent persons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Some references in French.
Table of contents: title: African student movements and the question of the African revolution / A.I. Sow; title: The history of WASU / A. Adu Boahen; title: WASU in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone / C. Ake; title: The influence of WASU in East Africa / S.I. Nyagava; title: Wasu : a reassessment / A.I. Asiwaju; title: The cultural dimensions of FEANF / B. Kotchy; title: FEANF and the colonial authorities / J.-R. de Benoist; title: The Union nationale des etudiants du Kamerun (UNEK) and the National Liberation Movement / A. Eyinga; title: The role of Tunisian student movements from 1990 to 1975 / M Chenoufi; title: Class struggle or jockeying for position? / B. Kifle Selassie; title: The Malagasy student movement from 1900 to 1975 / F. Ramiandrasoa; title: The black student press in France from 1943-1960 / N. Bancel and J. Devisse.