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Future That Works Selected Writings of A. M. Babu

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ISBN-10: 086543834X

ISBN-13: 9780865438347

Edition: 2000

Authors: Abdul Rahman Mohamed Babu, Salma Babu, Amrit Wilson

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Spanning a period of almost 40 years, these seminal essays, articles and speeches cast a clear and analytical light on many key political events and processes in Africa and elsewhere, and suggests practical ways forward.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Africa World Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Amrit Wilson is the author of Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (Pluto, 2006), The Challenge Road: Women in the Eritrean Revolution (1991) and US Foreign Policy and Revolution: the creation of Tanzania (Pluto, 1989) and the co-editor of The Future that Works: Selected writings of A.M.Babu (2002).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Postscript to 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' 1971
Open letter to Mugabe, 1980
The Tanzania that might have been 198
Bleak, bleak future for Africa, 1984
From China with lessons for Africa, 1984
The masses are hungry, 1985
Counter Punch, 1985
Basic Needs Approach - arguing for the sake of argument, 1988
Aid perpetuates dependency, 1994
Speech delivered at 4th PAFMECA conference, 1958
Patrice Lumumba, 1987
Regional co-operation in Africa, 1987
The visionary Neto, 1988
Challenges ahead for the new Secretary General of the OAU, 1989
Speech delivered at the International Conference on Malcolm X, 1990
The OAU - help or hindrance, 1993
Pan Africanism and the New World Order, 1994
Visions of Africa, 1995
A hopeful dawn of post-colonial initiatives, 1996
Twenty years after the non-aligned movement, 1981
Cancun: A postmortem, 1981
Non-Alignment in the post-Gulf War era, 1991
Third World concern about 'humanitarian' interventions, 1993
After the OAU summit, 1981
Crowning of Emperor Mitterand, 1982
A dialogue between Dr. Banda and Mr. de Klerk, 1982
Portugal's new empire, 1984
The struggle for Africa's mind, 1984
Israel's diplomatic offensive 1986
China and Africa: can we learn from each other? 1987
Cultural subversion through education, 1988
Soviet policy to Africa after Perestroika, 1993
Gromyko: Political Commisar to President, 1995
Obscenities of Preventive Detention, 1980
Giving the left a bad name, 1983
Leader knows best, 1985
Uganda's lesson in democracy, 1986
The right to demand freedoms, 1992
Eritrea: its present is the remote future of others, 1985
The future that works, 1985
The shadow of Iran - Apartheid power in the Black townships, 1985
Who are the good guys in Rwanda? 1994
South Africa - do the fundamentals remain the same? 1995
Introduction to 'Dar es Salaam Debates on Class, State & Imperialism', 1982
Letter to Karim Essack, 1982
Ideologies and the Third World - a response to Ali Mazrui, 1986
A tragedy for socialism, 1995
The New World Disorder - which way Africa? 1996
Key dates in Babu's life
Sources
Index