The World-System and Africa
The World-System and Africa In The World-System and Africa, Immanuel Wallerstein examines three important, interconnected themes that link Africa and the capitalist world-system of the last 500…
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The World-System and Africa
In The World-System and Africa, Immanuel Wallerstein examines three important, interconnected themes that link Africa and the capitalist world-system of the last 500 years. Next, he turns to identity politics, a political stance that came to prominence in the last thirty years, and considers the world-system context for the African dilemmas posed by this approach. While drawing attention to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, Wallerstein uses the first set of essays to explore the impact of this worldwide structural crisis on Africa.
Finally, Wallerstein reflects on African thinkers' analyses of current affairs both in the world-system and in Africa. Not unique to Africa, identity politics has become central to political struggles everywhere in the world-system. Coming from someone who has been involved in writing about Africa for over seventy years,
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