This is a book of theory written from Africa. Its concern is the development of concepts for an understanding of emancipatory politics in Africa in particular, and in the Third World in general. 'Politics' here means consciousness, ideology, practice, choices and thought. The two core concepts which the book develops are the idea of 'excess' and that of 'political sequence'. These are both made necessary by the underlying commitment to the axiom that 'people think' - that people are capable of thinking rationally beyond ...
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This is a book of theory written from Africa. Its concern is the development of concepts for an understanding of emancipatory politics in Africa in particular, and in the Third World in general. 'Politics' here means consciousness, ideology, practice, choices and thought. The two core concepts which the book develops are the idea of 'excess' and that of 'political sequence'. These are both made necessary by the underlying commitment to the axiom that 'people think' - that people are capable of thinking rationally beyond their interests as de?ned by their social location within a matrix of social relations regulated by the state. Drawing on the work of Alain Badiou and Sylvain Lazarus, the category of the sequence is used to provide an alternative to historicism in which 'politics' exists only as historical sequences which are discontinuous. These concepts are deployed variously in the history of anti-colonial and national liberation struggles and in contemporary experiences on the African continent. The book asserts that Africans, rather than having simply been the victims of modern history, have contributed to the universal history of humanity and continue to do so in original and inventive ways which provide important pointers for thinking human emancipation worldwide in the 21st century.
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