Africa
Subtitle: A Continent Self-Destructs
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312240189
Subjects: African history: from c 1900 -; African studies; Political science & theory; Politics and government; General; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Contemporary Politics - Africa; Social conditions; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; International Relations - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Political History; Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; 1960-; Economic conditions
First sentence: When Aime Cesaire, Martinique's great poet, wrote in 1939 that he was a solitary black man ensnared in white who scorned the screams of a "white death" he voiced the ideology of Negritude, the concept that "represents profound reaction to the denigration of the African and his culture that marked the [slave era and the] colonial period, and which brought many of the Africans to the psychologically perilous position of questioning the basic values by which they had been taught to live.