Ebook: Political Science in Africa: A Critical Review

Political Science in Africa: A Critical Review embodies a debate. Its 16 contributors — all of them political scientists or economists who have taught and worked In Africa and most of whom are African — share one concern: that the study of government and politics in Africa should be freed from the inherited methodological parameters and thematic concerns of Western (and especially American) political science. The authors share, too, an ethical commitment to a political science that, on the one hand, does not mythologize or mystify the political process in the Continent, and on the other hand, that is relevant to the interests of the mass of the population and concerned with their hopes and struggles to build a better society.