Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance.(Book Review)

From: African Studies Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance. Graham Harrison. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. 208 pp.

In this book, Harrison grapples with the tendency of analysts to homogenize African realities, "make grand generalizations about an 'African malaise' or even a dark continent", and approach Africa as a singular and diseased entity, rather than an amalgam of cultures and entities with diverse experiences, apparent problems and innate promises (p. 14). Owing to this practice, Africans have become passive, helpless and ...

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