Anarchism in Africa
Sam Mbah & I.E. Igariwey
"Is there a developed, systematic body of thought on anarchism that is of African origin ? Because anarchism as a way of life is in large measure indigenous in Africa, it seems almost certain that Africans had, at one time or another, formulated creative ideas on this way of organizing society (...)"
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[1]^ The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th Edition), Volume I, 1990, p. 371.
[2]^ The Encyclopedia Americana (International Edition), Volume I, 1981, p. 277.
[3]^ Collier’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2. New York : Macmillan, 1982, p. 127.
[4]^ Russell, B. Roads to Freedom. London : Unwin, 1977, p. 44.
[5]^ Ibid., p. 57.
[6]^ Bakunin, M. Marxism, Freedom and the State. London : Freedom Press, 1984, p. 22.
[7]^ Ibid., p. 5.
[8]^ Ibid., p. 31.
[9]^ Kropotkin, P. Anarchism and Anarchist Communism. London : Freedom Press, 1987, p. 23.
[10]^ Ibid., p. 29.
[11]^ Ibid., p. 51 and 52.
[12]^ Bakunin, Op. Cit., p. 33.
[13]^ Kropotkin, Op. Cit., p. 39.
[14]^ Bakunin, Op. Cit., pp. 33 and 34.
[15]^ Maximoff, G.P. Program of Anarcho-Syndicalism. Sydney : Monty Miller Press, 1985, p. 10.
[16]^ Ibid., p. 11.
[17]^ Ibid., p. 13.
[18]^ See The Principles, Aims and Statutes of the International Workers Association
[19]^ Dielo Trouda Group, Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists, 1926, Irish edition, republished by Workers Solidarity Movement, p. 18.
[20]^ Maximoff, Op. Cit., p. 34.
[21]^ See Doyle, K. Workers Solidarity, Issue #36, Autumn 1992, p. 20.
[22]^ See Statutes of the International Workers Association
[23]^ Anonymous, You Can’t Blow Up a Social Relationship : The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism. Tucson, Arizona : See Sharp Press, 1990, p. 20.
[24]^ Russell, Op. Cit., p. 56.
[25]^ Quoted in Russell, Op. Cit., p. 57.
[26]^ Bakunin, Op. Cit., p. 6.
[27]^ See Anarchism Toward the 21st Century, published by Anarchist Media Institute, p. 27.
[28]^ Kropotkin, Op. Cit., p. 11.
[29]^ See Kropotkin, Op. Cit., p. 12.
[30]^ Ibid.
[31]^ See Bakunin, Op. Cit., pp. 12, 28, and 30. See also Russell, Op. Cit., pp. 48, 96 and 98.
[32]^ Quoted in Russell, p. 51.
[33]^ Kropotkin, Op. Cit., p. 9.
[34]^ Ibid., pp. 23 and 2.
[35]^ See Russell, B. Roads to Freedom. London : Unwin, 1977, p. 26. Russell, Op. Cit., pp. 65 and 66.
[36]^ Ibid., p. 29.
[37]^ Quoted in Russell, p. 30.
[38]^ For example, by 1869 he had begun a Russian translation of Das Capital, a book whose economic doctrine he enthusiastically supported.
[39]^ Quoted in Russell, p. 48.
[40]^ Ibid., p. 51.
[41]^ Ibid.
[42]^ Bakunin, M. Marxism, Freedom and the State. London : Freedom Press, 1984, pp. 11 and 12.
[43]^ Russell, Op. Cit., p. 52.
[44]^ Bakunin, Op. Cit., p. 39.
[45]^ Ibid., p. 47.
[46]^ Ibid., p. 43.
[47]^ Ibid., p. 32.
[48]^ Quoted in Dolgoff, S. (ed.) Bakunin on Anarchy. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, pp. 331-332.
[49]^ Bakunin, Op. Cit., p. 16.
[50]^ Russell, Op. Cit., p. 57.
[51]^ Quoted in Dolgoff, Op. Cit., p. 323.
[52]^ McLoughlin, C. “Anarchism and Marxism,” Workers Solidarity Magazine, Issue #39, 1993.
[53]^ Appadorai, A. The Substance of Politics. London : Oxford University Press, 1978, p. 124.
[54]^ Ibid., p. 120.
[55]^ See The Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th Edition), Vol. II, p. 464.
[56]^ Russell, Op. Cit., p. 62.
[57]^ Russell, Op. Cit., p. 62.
[58]^ Appadorai, Op. Cit., p. 120.
[59]^ Quoted in The New Radical Thinker, Sept. — Dec. 1994. See also Russell, p. 64.
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[112]^ Goldthorpe, J.E. “The Sociology of the Third World” in The African Communist No. 106, Third Quarter, 1986, p. 59.
[113]^ “Indigenous Ills in Socialism in Tanzania,” Ibid.
[114]^ Galli, R.E. Lecture on political economy, University of Calabar, 1982.
[115]^ The African Communist, No. 117, Second Quarter, 1989, pp. 70-71.
[116]^ Ibid., pp. 82-83.
[117]^ Ibid., p. 83.
[118]^ Ibid., p. 72.
[119]^ Ake, Claude. Revolutionary Pressures in Africa. London : Zed Press, 1978.
[120]^ Ibid. p. 79.
[121]^ Ibid., p. 80.
[122]^ Ibid.
[123]^ Harris, R., ed. The Political Economy of Africa. New York : Schwenkan Publishing Company, 1975, p. 30.
[124]^ Markovitz, L. Power and Class in Africa. New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 1977, p. 306.
[125]^ Fanon, F. The Wretched of the Earth. Middlesex, England : Penguin, 1961, p. 174.
[126]^ Ibid.
[127]^ Murray, R. “The Social Roots and Political Nature of Military Regimes,” in Gutkind, P.W., ed., African Social Studies. London : Heinemann, p. 384.
[128]^ Ibid., p. 385.
[129]^ Grundy, K.W. “The Negative Image of Africa’s Military,” Review of Politics, Vol. 30, 1968.
[130]^ Ibid.
[131]^ Levine, V.T. Political Corruption : The Ghana Case. Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press, 1975, p. 65.
[132]^ Card, E. “The Political Economy of Ghana,” in Harris, R., ed., The Political Economy of Africa. New York : Praeger, 1969, p. 182.
[133]^ Ocran, A. Politics of the Sword. London : Rex Collings, 1977, p. 45.
[134]^ Nigerian Department of Information, Printing Division, Lagos (Audit Report, 1982).
[135]^ Sunday Concord Newspaper, October 9, 1983, p. 1.
[136]^ Nye, J. “Corruption and Political Development,” in Levine, Op. Cit., p. 65.
[137]^ Ibid.
[138]^ Cited in Levine, Op. Cit., p. 65.
[139]^ Ake, C. A Political Economy of Africa. New York : Longman, 1981, p. 33.
[140]^ Williams, G. in Gutkind and Waterman, eds., African Social Studies. London : Heinemann, 1977, p. 176.
[141]^ See Pius Okigbo’s paper, “Africa’s External Debt Crisis,” presented at a public symposium, University of Lagos, November 1989.
[142]^ Maximoff, G.P. Program of Anarcho-Syndicalism. Sydney : Monty Miller Press, 1985, p. 46.
[143]^ Bakunin, M. Marxism, Freedom and the State. London : Freedom Press, 1984, p. 32.
[144]^ Ibid.
[145]^ Maximoff, Op. Cit., p. 45.
[146]^ Ibid., p. 46.
[147]^ Ibid., p. 47.
[148]^ Ibid.
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Sources : African Anarchism : The History of A Movement, theanarchistlibrary.org - 15/11/2010