African Socialism in Kwame Nkrumah’s Africa Must Unite (1963) and Mohamed Boudiaf’s Où Va L’Algerie? (1964)
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2020
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UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU
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This piece of research studies Scientific Socialism in Africa during the twentieth
century withinthe contexts of Pan-Africanism and Nationalism. The Pan-African
aspect of Scientific Socialism is studied in relation to Kwame Nkrumah’s Africa Must
Unite (1963) and the nationalist one is dealt with in relation to Mohamed Boudiaf’s
Où Va L’Algerie? (1964). While Nkrumah adopts Scientific Socialism in the context
of Pan-Africanism as a means that unite all the African countries, Boudiaf adopts it in
the context of Nationalism, focusing only on his motherland ‘Algeria’. Scientific
Socialism in this dissertation is studied according to its definition provided by James
McCain in his article entitled “Perceptions of Socialism in Post-Socialist Ghana: An
Experimental Analysis”. McCain views Scientific Socialism as a suitable doctrine that
serves the African countries, since each country can adopt it according to its
circumstances. For him, Scientific Socialism is the form of Socialism that responds to
the African needs, because it is builton observation, experimentation and implication.
In fact, leaders must take into consideration the social, economic, cultural and political
conditions of their countries, and then they must implement a governmental policy
which fits these conditions. In our analysis, we have shown how Scientific Socialism
is adopted in Africa Must Unite and Où Va L’Algerie? by referring to the different
sectors on which it is based. Our analysis has shown that both Nkrumah and Boudiaf
utilize Scientific Socialism in order to bring development in each ones’ society, even
though the doctrine is used by the two authors in different contexts.
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Littérature et Civilisation