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Title: Nationalism in Colonial Africa by Hodgkin T ISBN: 0-8147-0190-6 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: June, 1957 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Still classic after all these years [4 1/2 stars]
Comment: It's too bad that this timeless work, still surprisingly fresh despite its 1956 publication, is out of print. In it Hodgkin, a pioneer of African Studies in the UK, identifies the primary forces shaping politics in late colonial Africa: peasants, urban workers, Christian and syncretic churches, and rising educated intellectuals among others. His optimism over the approach of freedom remains refreshing. It loses half a star in its rating because Hodgkin failed to anticipate the negative effect of the military and security forces after independence, but then so did most other contemporary observers....Hodgkin, a peer of Basil Davidson, was less prolific but more scholarly than Davidson, and just as readable. For some very acute insights on the early decades of the post-independence era, don't miss the outstanding article by Michael Crowder, "Whose Dream Was It Anyway? Twenty Five Years of African Independence," AFRICAN AFFAIRS (1987), 7-24.