African Politics

Approach to the study of African politics.- What is political development?.- I - Political Forces.- I - The Bases of Political Forces.- 1. Social classes and political forces.- A glance at the evolution of the social class system.- Political forces before independence.- The present configuration of political forces.- 2. The weight of the superstructure.- Tribalism and racism.- Religions.- Education.- Information.- II - Outline of a Typology of Political Forces.- 1. Traditional political forces and modern political forces.- The reality of traditional forces.- Relationships between traditional forces and modern forces.- 2. Manifest political forces and latent political forces.- Manifest political forces.- From movements to political parties.- Trade unions.- Young people's and women's organizations.- Latent political forces.- Internal forces.- External forces.- 3. Progressive or revolutionary forces and conservative or reactionary forces.- II - The Political Ideologies.- I - International Relations.- 1. Ideologies of decolonization.- From the African Personality to the assertion of a national culture.- 1 Nationalism.- Nationalism as a rejection of the colonial system.- Nationalism as a demand.- 2. Panafricanism.- The birth and growth of the ideology.- The significance of the ideology.- 3. Non-alignment and 'Third Worldism'.- II - Internal Politics.- 1. Which kinds of models?.- Models of the capitalist type.- Models of the socialist type.- 2. Awareness of the models.- 3. The influence of models on the roads towards economic development.- The choice of the capitalist road to development.- The 'African roads' to socialism.- Marxism-leninism.- 4. The influence of models on the conceptions of government.- Constitutional populism.- Populism and the society of unanimity.- Populism of the Party.- III - Political Structures.- I - A Marginal People.- 1. Suffrage and democracy.- The problem of candidatures.- Who can be a candidate?.- How does the Party choose its candidates?.-