African Sociology - Towards a Critical Perspective: The Collected Essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane
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The sociological and political writings of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane on African political history, political economy and political philosophy constitute a vital portion of a monumental legacy to later generations by an African intellectual who came to maturity through an historical consciousness that emerged during the 1960s. This was a period characterized by the radical contentious philosophies of history: African marxism, African nationalism and the reactionary ideologies aligned with imperialism and colonialism.The essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane stand at a fascinating intersection with the intellectual systems of Frantz Fanon, H.I.E. Dhlomo, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Amilcar Cabral. They are first and foremost what Cabral and Fanon were clamoring for: an instrumentarium of the construction of a progressive African ideology or African ideologies. What enabled them to realize this remarkable breakthrough is that they are a continuation of the revolutionary thought of Fanon and Cabral. Magubane was among the first African academic scholars to have seen the historical significance of Fanon and Cabral, respectively in the mid 1960s and in the early 1970s.Written in exile during the exile period in South African intellectual and cultural history these essays until recently were not easily historically locatable within the genealogical structure of South African intellectual traditions. Undoubtedly, this had been due to the 'political philosophy' of apartheid and its ideological manifestations.
Foreword: Foreshadowings in the Making of an "African Renaissance"1Crisis in African Sociology12Pluralism and Conflict Situations in Africa: A New Look273A Critical Look at Indices Used in the Study of Social Change in Colonial Africa554The South African Problem as a View of Imperialism855The Political Economy of Migrant Labor: A Critique of Conventional Wisdom or A Case Study in the Functions of Functionalism1016Ideological and Theoretical Problems in the Study of Modernization in Africa1197The "Xhosa" in Town, Revisited Urban Social Anthropology: A Failure of Method and Theory1498Urban Tribalism: Theory and Ideology1739The Evolution of the Class Structure in Africa19910Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues23511The Political Economy of the City in South Africa26112The Poverty of Liberal Analysis: A Polemic on Southern Africa28513The City in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues30914Imperialism and the Making of the South African Working Class33515Toward a Sociology of National Liberation From Colonialism: Cabral's Legacy37716The Political Economy of the Black World - Origins of the Present Crisis40517Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and The Housing Question (1872) Revisited: Their Relevance for Urban Anthropology42318Race and Class Revisited: The Case of North America and South Africa46519On The Political Relevance of Anthropology49920The Round Table Movement: Its Influence on the Historiography of Imperialism517Notes557Bibliography587Permissions609Index611
