Onesimo Silveira: African South of the Sahara : Party Systems and the Ideologies of Socialism, Political Science Association, Uppsala 1976

Abstract

Dr. Silveira’s bookranked as one of the most sympathetic treatments of the African political process to date. His point of departure is to rightly recognize the African political leader as a serious actor with a vision of society, working within the constraints imposed by the colonial legacy, the class nature of his society and inherited socio-economic structure to bring about his version of society as well as, naturally, to stay in power.