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074534786X epub A remarkable volume on the vicissitudes of the revolutionary left in post-independence Africa Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dar es Salaam Twenty-first-century radicals should find new inspiration for action in this untold history Jean Copans, anthropologist and sociologist From the Tubu nomads of northern Chad to peasants, workers and students throughout the African continent, we see how these movements used old and new ideas to mobilize emancipatory struggles for change Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Professor of African and Global Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill While the revolutionary left of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant discussion, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively little attention. Read more