Thabo Mbeki: Ohio Short Histories of Africa
Autor Adekeye Adebajoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2017
Former
South
African
president
Thabo
Mbeki
is
a
complex
figure.
He
was
a
committed
young
Marxist
who,
while
in
power,
embraced
conservative
economic
policies
and
protected
white
corporate
interests;
a
rational
and
dispassionate
thinker
who
was
particularly
sensitive
to
criticism
and
dissent;
and
a
champion
of
African
self-reliance
who
relied
excessively
on
foreign
capital.
As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC’s antiapartheid struggle. Later, he helped build one of the world’s most respected constitutional democracies. As president, though, he was unable to overcome inherited socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will remain a major blotch on his legacy.
Mbeki is the most important African political figure of his generation. He will be remembered as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking efforts and his role in building continental institutions, not least of which was the African Union. In this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate Mbeki’s contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.
As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC’s antiapartheid struggle. Later, he helped build one of the world’s most respected constitutional democracies. As president, though, he was unable to overcome inherited socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will remain a major blotch on his legacy.
Mbeki is the most important African political figure of his generation. He will be remembered as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking efforts and his role in building continental institutions, not least of which was the African Union. In this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate Mbeki’s contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821422748
ISBN-10: 082142274X
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 108 x 178 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Ohio Short Histories of Africa
ISBN-10: 082142274X
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 108 x 178 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Ohio Short Histories of Africa
Recenzii
“The
author’s
readable
style
summarizes
the
contours
of
Mbeki’s
life
from
his
childhood
with
activist
parents
to
student
defiance
of
apartheid,
then
exile
to
Britain
and
across
Africa,
where
Oliver
Tambo
groomed
him
for
leadership….
The
book
succeeds
as
a
balanced,
easy-to-read,
yet
insightful
biography.
Like
other
titles
in
the
“Ohio
Short
Histories
of
Africa”
series,
students
will
benefit
from
the
book’s
succinctness
…
Summing
Up:
Recommended.”—CHOICE
“The
book
meticulously
captures
the
thoughts,
personality
and
idiosyncrasies
of
a
man
whose
legacy
in
South
Africa
and
abroad
is
mixed.…Departing
from
other
biographies
of
Mbeki,
the
book
offers
a
careful
analytical
balance
between
Mbeki’s
domestic
policy
and
foreign
policy.…At
a
time
[when]
the
African
continent
is
toying
with
the
idea
of
new
Pan-Africanism
–
imbued
with
Mbeki’s
idea
of
African
renaissance,
the
book
can
offer
an
important
historical
context
to
the
same.”—Nicodemus
Minde,Africa@LSE
Notă biografică
Adekeye
Adebajois
the
director
of
the
Institute
for
Pan-African
Thought
and
Conversation
at
the
University
of
Johannesburg
and
was
a
Rhodes
Scholar
at
Oxford
University,
where
he
obtained
his
doctorate.
He
is
the
author
ofThe
Curse
of
Berlin:
Africa
after
the
Cold
Warand
editor
ofAfrica’s
Peacemakers:
Nobel
Peace
Laureates
of
African
Descent.He
is
a
columnist
forBusiness
Day(South
Africa)
and
theGuardian(Nigeria).
Descriere
In
this
concise
biography,
ideally
suited
for
the
classroom,
Adekeye
Adebajo
seeks
to
illuminate
former
South
African
president
Thabo
Mbeki’s
contradictions
and
situate
him
in
a
pan-African
pantheon.