Class, elite, and community in African development

Abstract

This paper covers the independent states of tropical Africa (South of the Sahara). Its main focus is on the ex-British colonies. It attempts to deal with a variety of concepts and themes of differing degrees of complexities: these inlude notions of colonialism and imperialist penetration, the process of decolonozation, social and class formations, class and class struggle, élite, and social and political mobilization.

<p>Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Theory of Modernization -- III. Community Development : A Critique -- IV. Class and Class Struggle</p>