Africa's best & worst presidents : how neocolonialism & imperialism maintained venal rules in Africa /
Africa's Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains. It chastises and challenges Africans, academics in the main, to revisit and write a true history of Africa. Written by Africans themselves, such rewritten histories should...
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| Language: | English |
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Mankon, Cameroon :
Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,
[2016]
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Lumumba the martyr who defined Africa
- 2. The juggernaut of African Union
- 3. Nyerere the philosopher king who shook the west
- 4. Samora the hero who died mysteriously
- 5. Kaunda the humanist per se
- 6. Balewa the symbol of national unity
- 7. Ahidjo unsung hero
- 8. Senghor the debatable philosopher
- 9. Mandela the peace maker-cum- réconciliateur
- 10. De Klerk the risk taker who pulled apartheid down
- 11. Khama the true democrat who negotiated best deals
- 12. Jawara the unionist and moderate democrat
- 13. Sankara, another martyr who promised a lot for Africa
- 14. Magufuli the palooka but a bulldozer who promises a lot
- 15. Kenyatta the land grabber who got away with murder
- 16. Mobutu the monster who ruined the DRC
- 17. Bokassa a stupid and vampiric "emperor"
- 18. Bongo the turncoat that influenced France
- 19. Amin a bumbling buffoon cloned
- 20. Boigny a ruthless and mystique crocodile
- 21. Mugabe a hero who became a villain
- 22. Moi a blind follower who brutalised Kenya
- 23. Hijacked democracy as the cause of African political systemic failure
- 24. Conclusion. Poverty is not an accident.
