Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- 17 Socialism, Zionism, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine
- 18 Socialism in India
- 19 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party
- 20 African Socialism
- 21 Arab Socialism
- 22 Chavismo: Revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela
- Left Socialisms
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
20 - African Socialism
from Southern Trajectories
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- 17 Socialism, Zionism, and Settler Colonialism in Israel/Palestine
- 18 Socialism in India
- 19 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party
- 20 African Socialism
- 21 Arab Socialism
- 22 Chavismo: Revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela
- Left Socialisms
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
Summary
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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- The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 455 - 473Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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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. 275–319.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