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ORIENTATION WITH REGARD TO THIS MODULE
Introduction
General note
How to approach the module material
Reading
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STUDY UNIT 1: IDEOLOGY AND SOME DEFINITION-RELATED
PROBLEMS

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STUDY UNIT 2: AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT AS IDEOLOGY
Pan-Africanism
Negritude
African socialism
African humanism
Ideology, performance and the future

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TEST YOURSELF: STUDY UNIT 2
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IDEOLOGY IN AFRICAN POLITICS

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THE POLITICS OF ETHNICITY AND CLASS IN AFRICA

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STUDY UNIT 3: INTRODUCTION
Definition-related issues

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TEST YOURSELF: STUDY UNIT 3
STUDY UNIT 4: MODERNISATION AND ETHNIC CONFLICT
Ethnic compacts
Ethnic intermediaries
Ethnic balance and proportionality
The breakdown of ethnic compacts

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TEST YOURSELF: STUDY UNIT 4

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STUDY UNIT 5: CASE STUDY: ETHNICITY AND THE NATION-STATE IN
NIGERIA

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TEST YOURSELF: UNIT 5

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STUDY UNIT 6: THE POLITICAL RELEVANCE OF CLASS IN AFRICA
Definition-related issues
The nature and meaning of class and its relevance to stratification
Foreign bourgeoisie
African bourgeoisie
Lumpenproletariat and African peasantry
Stratification in precolonial Africa

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The formation of classes in colonial and postcolonial Africa
Class as a source of political conflict in Africa
TEST YOURSELF: STUDY UNIT 6

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POLITICAL PARTIES AND SINGLE-PARTY RULE
STUDY UNIT 7: THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN AFRICA
TEST YOURSELF: STUDY UNIT 7

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STUDY UNIT 8: POLITICAL PARTIES IN FRENCH AND BRITISH AFRICA
TEST YOURSELF: STUDY UNIT 8

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STUDY UNIT 9: POSTINDEPENDENCE TRENDS IN AFRICAN

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