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A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara: Black Critique

Autor Amber Murrey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2018
Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's popular uprising in 2014.

This book looks at Sankara's political philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of his synthesis of Pan-Africanism and humanist Marxist politics, as well as his approach to gender, development, ecology and decolonisation offer new insights to Sankarist political philosophies. Critical evaluations of the limitations of the revolution examine his relationship with labour unions and other aspects of his leadership style. His legacy is revealed by looking at contemporary activists, artists and politicians who draw inspiration from Sankarist thought in social movement struggles today, from South Africa to Burkina Faso.

In the 30th anniversary of his assassination, this book illustrates how Sankara's political praxis continues to provide lessons and hope for decolonisation struggles today.
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ISBN-13: 9780745337579
ISBN-10: 0745337570
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 146 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Seria Black Critique


Notă biografică

Amber Murrey is Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Her award-winning research considers contemporary Pan-Africanism, resistance to neo-colonial violence, resource extraction and decolonisation. She has been published in a variety of academic journals, including Third World QuarterlyPolitical GeographyThe Journal of Black StudiesThe Postcolonialist and Capital and Class. She is the editor of A Certain Amount of Madness (Pluto, 2018).

Recenzii

'This book by a wide range of committed scholars, including, crucially, a significant number of African scholars, is a necessary and illuminating intervention. The Sankara that emerges here is more than "Africa's Che Guevara," a man whose ideas and politics are "rich with a thousand nuances" that distinguish them from other forms of Marxism and Pan-Africanism. Sankara comes alive in all his complexity.'

Descriere

Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa’s most important anti-imperialist leaders

Cuprins

Forward by Horace G. Campbell
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction
Amber Murrey
 
Part I Life and Revolution
1 Military Coup, Popular Revolution on Militarised Revolution?: Contextualising the Revolutionary Ideological Courses of Thomas Sankara and the National Council of the Revolution
De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Moussa Traore
2 The Perils of Non-Alignment: Thomas Sankara and the Cold War
Brian Peterson
3 Thomas Sankara and the Elusive Revolution
Leo Zeilig
4 When Visions Collide: Thomas Sankara, Trade Unions and the Revolution in Burkina Faso, 1983-1987
Craig Phelan
5 Africa’s Sankara: On Pan-African Leadership
Amber Murrey
6 Who Killed Thomas Sankara?
Bruno Jaffré
7 ‘Incentivized’ Self-Adjustment: Reclaiming Sankara’s Revolutionary Austerity from Corporate Geographies of Neoliberal Erasure
Nicholas A. Jackson
 
Part II Political Philosophies
8 Madmen, Thomas Sankara and Decoloniality in Africa
Ama Biney
9 With the People: Sankara’s Humanist Marxism
Ernest Harsch
10 Thomas Sankara and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem: The Untimely Deaths of Two New Generation African Visionaries
Patricia Daley
11 Women’s Freedoms are the Heartbeat of Africa’s Future: A Sankarian Imperative
Patricia McFadden
12 Re-Reading Sankara’s Philosophy for a Praxeology of Debt in Contemporary Times
Sakue-C. Yimovie
13 Sankara’s Political Ideas and Pan-African Solidarity: A Perspective for Africa’s Development?
Felix Kumah-Abiwu and Olusoji Alani Odeyemi
14 ‘Revolution and Women’s Liberation Go Together’: Thomas Sankara, Gender and the Burkina Faso Revolution
Namakula E. Mayanja
 
Part III Legacies
15 Balai Citoyen: A New Praxis of Citizen Fight with Sankarist Inspirations
Zakaria Soré
16 La Santé Avant Tout: Health before Everything
T.D. Harper-Shipman
17 Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso
Bettina Engels
18 To Decolonize the World: Thomas Sankara and the ‘Last Colony’ in Africa
Patrick Delices
19 ‘Daring to Invent the Future’: Sankara’s Legacy and Contemporary Activism in South Africa
Levi Kabwato and Sarah Chiumbu
 
Part IV Contestations and Homages
20 The Academy as Contested Space: Disappearing Sankara from the ‘Acceptable Avant-Garde’
Nicholas A. Jackson
21 Art and the Construction of a ‘Sankara Myth’: A Hero Trend in Contemporary Burkinabè Cohen
Sophie Bodénès Cohen
22 Slanted Photography: Reflections on Sankara and My Peace Corps Experience in Burkina Faso
Celestina Agyekum
23 ‘We Are the Children of Sankara’: Memories as Weapons during the Burkinabè Uprisings of 2014 and 2015
Fiona Dragstra
Afterword
Aziz Salmone Fall
Notes on Contributors
Index