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Thabo Mbeki
- Title
- Thabo Mbeki / Adekeye Adebajo.
- Author
- Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966-
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 187 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital. As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC's antiapartheid struggle. Later, he helped build one of the world's most respected constitutional democracies. As president, though, he was unable to overcome inherited socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will remain a major blotch on his legacy. Mbeki is the most important African political figure of his generation. He will be remembered as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking efforts and his role in building continental institutions, not least of which was the African Union. In this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate Mbeki's contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.
- Series Statement
- Ohio short histories of Africa
- Uniform Title
- Ohio short histories of Africa.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- First published in 2014 in South Africa by Jacana Media Ltd.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Africa's philosopher-kings -- Coming of age -- The path to power -- The domestic president -- The foreign policy president -- The post-presidency -- Legacy.
- Call Number
- Sc C 19-5
- ISBN
- 082142274X
- 9780821422748
- LCCN
- 2017285480
- OCLC
- 958780627
- Author
- Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- author.
- Title
- Thabo Mbeki / Adekeye Adebajo.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Ohio short histories of AfricaOhio short histories of Africa.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1994
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 19-5