Africa
Subtitle: A Continent Self-Destructs
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781403960535
Subjects: African history: from c 1900 -; African studies; Development studies; Social history; Politics/International Relations; Political; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Textbooks; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa - Central; International Relations - General; Political Process - Leadership; Social Science / African-American Studies
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.