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| Title: | People's War, State Formation and Revolution in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Angola |
| Author: | Chabal, Patrick |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | November |
| Pages: | 104-125 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Guinea-Bissau Angola Mozambique |
| Subjects: | revolutions national liberation struggles nationalism colonialism Politics and Government Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14662048308447438 |
| Abstract: | Do historically different forms of decolonisation lead to the formation of significantly distinct post-colonial states? What is the relationship between the two? Such questions are implicit in the debate on the political significance and revolutionary potential of the nationalist struggles in the three lusophone African countries. In what ways did it matter, for example, that the post-colonial state in Angola, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique was born of an armed struggle (or people's war)? Does the process of people's war usher in the establishment of radically distinct post-colonial states in Africa? More generally, is there a correlation between the nature of the post-colonial state and the success of the people's war which preceded independence? Furthermore, is it either legitimate or even meaningful to infer that the emergence of a distinct post-colonial state is causally related to the development of a revolutionary process in the three lusophone countries? Does the creation of a 'people's state' lead to the transition to socialism? Or to put it more bluntly, when, if ever, is a nationalist waving a gun a revolutionary? Notes. |
