Underdevelopment and Class Formation in Sierra Leone

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" Underdevelopment and Class Formation in Sierra Leone "
E.G. Mukonoweshuro

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1070871
Doc. No	:	LA114500
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852186X00242‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	E.G. Mukonoweshuro
Title & Author	:	Underdevelopment and Class Formation in Sierra Leone [Article]\ E.G. Mukonoweshuro
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Asian and African Studies
Date	:	1986
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/3-4
Page No	:	159–170
Abstract	:	One of the cardinal issues in the radical debate on underdevelopment in Africa during the late sixties and throughout the seventies has been the discussion of the nature of class formation, the role of the post-colonial state and the relationship between them. In the context of Anglophone West Africa, the debate has focussed on larger states such as Nigeria, acknowledged as having been widely penetrated by colonial capitalism; or on those which represented efforts to implement socialist strategies such as Ghana under Nkrumah. Little similar research has been directed to smaller states such as Sierra Leone-which remained largely analytically accessible through conventional or liberal paradigms. This paper seeks to do two things: (i) to launch a critique of the conventional analytical paradigms and (ii) to embark on a critical application of class analysis to the Sierra Leone social formation.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852186X00242‬