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20 - African Socialism

from Southern Trajectories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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In 1962 a conference was held in Dakar, Senegal. Its purpose was to discuss ‘African socialism’ and indeed to attempt to define what it was. This proved difficult to do, for in 1962 African political leaders of many and varied ideological positions used the term ‘African socialism’ to describe their vision and policies. But although African socialism appeared to be the dominant ideology of early 1960s Africa, this dominance soon passed. Critics from the left accused it of not being sufficiently socialist, while critics from the right pointed to its shortcomings as a development strategy.

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Babu, A. M., African Socialism or Socialist Africa? (London: Zed Books, 1981).Google Scholar
Biney, Ama, The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Google Scholar
Bjerk, Paul, ‘Sovereignty and socialism in Tanzania: the historiography of an African state’, History in Africa 37 (2010), pp. 275319.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Friedland, William H., and Rosberg, Carl G. (eds.), African Socialism (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1964).Google Scholar
Lal, Priya, African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).Google Scholar
Nyerere, Julius, ‘Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism’, in Nyerere, Julius, Freedom and Unity (London: Oxford University Press, 1967).Google Scholar
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, Nationhood and the African Road to Socialism (Paris: Présence Africaine, 1961).Google Scholar

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  • African Socialism
  • Edited by Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Socialism
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108611107.023
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  • African Socialism
  • Edited by Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Socialism
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108611107.023
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  • African Socialism
  • Edited by Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
  • Book: The Cambridge History of Socialism
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108611107.023
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