Revolution Reimagined in Africa
An Afrocentric Reading of Thomas Sankara’s Legacy and Africa’s Resurgent Coups
Revolution Reimagined in Africa
An Afrocentric Reading of Thomas Sankara’s Legacy and Africa’s Resurgent Coups
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Reflecting on Thomas Sankara's leadership and revolutionary philosophy, this book applies the Sankarist experience to recent coups in Africa.
Examining governance and leadership from an Afrocentric perspective, this book interrogates the causes of recent military and constitutional coups and their impacts on democratic consolidation. Through a Pan-Africanist and Afrocentric reading of the Sankarian legacy, this book provides ideas for reclaiming and reinvigorating African agency, and forging collaborations beyond borders.
This volume answers the call for African voices on African challenges.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Molefi Kete Asante (Temple University, USA)
Acknowledgments
Part I. History and Evolution of Sankarism
Introduction. Afrocentricity and Sankarism Contextualized
Moorosi Leshoele (University of the Free State, South Africa)
1. Messianic Rupture and Postcolonial Order: Thomas Sankara's Revolution and the Politics of Catastrophe within the Françafrique Universe
Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga (University of the Free State, South Africa)
2. Lessons and Legacies of Thomas Sankara for Africa in the Twenty-First Century
Ama Biney (University of Liverpool, UK)
3. The Re-Emergence of Military Coups in Africa as Coups No-for-Coups Sake but a Cry for Genuine Decoloniality: A Sankarian Perspective
Moorosi Leshoele (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Part II. Practices and Influences of Sankarism on Governance
4. Echoes of Sankara in Another Burkina Faso Coup
Ernest Harsch (Columbia University, USA)
5. The Right to Endogenous and Indigenous Development in Africa: Lessons from Burkina Faso
Moorosi Leshoele (University of the Free State, South Africa)
6. The Global Impact of Thomas Sankara and the Burkina Faso Revolution: A Systems Analysis
Patrick Delices (Independent Pan-African Scholar)
7. Judicial Legitimisation of Military Coups: The Case of Zimbabwe's 2017 Military Takeover
Simbarashe Tembo (University of Namibia, Namibia)
8. When a Coup d'état is Not an Option: Interrogating South Africa's Political Culture as a Safeguard against a Military Overthrow of Government
Mabutho Shangase (North-West University, South Africa)
Part III. The Resurgent Coups and Implications for the Future
9. Lessons from Thomas Sankara: The Re-Emergence of military coups in West Africa
Leshaba Lechaba (University of South Africa, South Africa)
10. Dynamics of Military Coups and Regressing Democracy in Africa: Strategies for Sustainable Democratic Transition and Institution Building
Chido Masunda (National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe)
11. Unveiling the dynamics of Coups in Africa: Implications for women and children
Juliet Kamwendo (University of the Free State, South Africa)
12. Rebel Dictatorship in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Conundrum to Women's Economic Empowerment in a State under Post-Colonial Volatility
Daniel Mlambo (Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa) and Siphelele Mahlaba (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Conclusion. An inflection point or coloniality morphosis
Moorosi Leshoele (University of the Free State, South Africa)
Index
Product details
| Published | 04 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798216454595 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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