Govan Mbeki (Ohio Short Histories of Africa) - Tapa blanda

Bundy, Colin

 
9780821420461: Govan Mbeki (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
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ISBN 10: 0821420461 ISBN 13: 9780821420461
Editorial: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013

Sinopsis

Govan Mbeki (1910-2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner. Sentenced to life in prison in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela and others, he was sent to the notorious Robben Island prison, where he continued to write even as tension grew between himself, Mandela, and other leaders over the future of the national liberation movement. As one of the greatest leaders of the antiapartheid movement, and the father of Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa from 1999 to 2008, the elder Mbeki holds a unique position in South African politics and history.

This biography by noted historian Colin Bundy goes beyond the narrative details of his long life: it analyzes his thinking, expressed in his writings over fifty years. Bundy helps establish what is distinctive about Mbeki: as African nationalist and as committed Marxist-and more than any other leader of the liberation movement-he sought to link theory and practice, ideas and action.

Drawing on exclusive interviews Bundy did with Mbeki, careful analysis of his writings, and the range of scholarship about his life, this biography is personal, reflective, thoroughly researched, and eminently readable.

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Colin Bundy is one of South Africa’s foremost historians and the author of The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry as well as the biography of Govan Mbeki in the series Ohio Short Histories of Africa.

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Editorial
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Año de publicación
2013
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ISBN 10 
0821420461
ISBN 13 
9780821420461
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Número de páginas
170
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9781431404872: Govan Mbeki: A Jacana pocket history (Jacana pocket series)

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ISBN 10:  143140487X ISBN 13:  9781431404872
Editorial: Jacana Media, 2012
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