Ebook: Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
Author: James D. Straker
- Series: African Systems of Thought
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Language: English
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In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed S?kou Tour? to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, and until his death in 1984, S?kou Tour? ruled with an iron fist. What would it have been like to participate in Guinea's changing political fortunes? Jay Straker invites readers to reconsider the sources, stakes, and ramifications of Guinea's nation-building experience. By engaging official political tracts, state and popular newspapers, education journals, novels, poems, plays, photographs, and personal histories, Straker offers an alternative view of the uneven effects of the state's attempts to reshape popular attitudes, social practice, and youth consciousness. Showing how visions of ideal youth played into the workings of revolutionary power, Straker creates a captivating and intense history that uncovers the ambitions that drove militant socialist-revolutionary politics in Guinea.
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