The Pattern of African Decolonization: a New Interpretation, Issue 10Program of Eastern African Studies, Syracuse University, 1973 - 123 pages Study, based on case studies of Botswana, Burundi, Lesotho, Rwanda and Swaziland, demonstrating that the momentum toward independence was supplied more by political opposition to the role of European colonial powers than by colonial reaction to the pressures of African nationalism - asserts that the development of political partys was at least in part a response to the initiative of the powers of colonialism, and cites the role of chiefs (tribal peoples) in the emerging political process. References. |
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