Origin, ideology and the leadership hierarchy of Al-Shabaab movement by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…The study limits itself to and concentrates on the movement within and in relation to East African political settings, history and development. The research employs library-based methodology in seeking wide-range conclusions. …”
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The African Nationalist Idea of Africa by Tlhabane Mokhine Dan Motaung

“…Only through a deeper historical understanding of these colonial processes of African political identification can an we begin to understand how this once glorious African nationalism regressed into a dystopian one. …”
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Comparing the aid diplomacy of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in Africa, 1959-1971 by Burnham, TC

“…It further seeks to incorporate the agency and initiative of African political leaders, underscoring how two providers both faced a steep learning curve in the pursuit of their discrete policies in Africa. …”

A Gift of Grapes: What Biography Reveals of the Uniquely Religiously-based Friendship between P.Q. Vundla and Nico Ferreira by Garth Mason

“…The two men stood at diametrical positions on the South African political stage - P.Q. Vundla, an ANC activist and Nico Ferreira, an Afrikaner working for the Department of Native Affairs. …”
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Education and Social Change in the Works of Karl Popper and George Orwell: A Pedagogy of Caution for Marxists in Africa by Babajide Olugbenga Dasaolu

“…In contemporary African political scholarship, scholars are divided over the methodology of attaining social change. …”
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Gender, Climate Change and Food Insecurity: A Zimbabwean Rastafari Perspective by Fortune Sibanda

“…It contains elements of Protestant Christianity, mysticism, and a pan-African political consciousness. Paradoxically, Rastafari is a patriarchal movement that subordinates women, but at the same time claims to advocate for the liberation and social justice of the oppressed in society. …”
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The Catholic Church and Prophetic Mission: Transitioning Church-State Relations in Africa by Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho

“…It underscores how the Catholic Church in Africa has defended and continues to uphold the rights of the people to actualize their aspiration of a simple good life in a hostile and self-serving African political and socioeconomic context. It notes that the Church cannot take the place of political leaders because its role is basically the promotion of the common good, which includes public order and peace, development, equality, justice and solidarity.…”
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Features of the Political Development of Africa in the Postcolonial Period by Wolde Mikhael Kassaye Nigusie, Natalia Viktorovna Ivkina

“…The article also considers the correlation between the traditional and westernized elements within African political culture. The borrowing of political institutions and statehood theories is also considered not only as a consequence of the colonial past, but also as the political choice of the first national leaders of Africa, in the framework of their aspiration to choose an effective development way and to find a balance between the tradition and modernization. …”
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Bloodier than black and white: liberation history seen through detective sergeant Donald Card’s narrative of his investigations of Congo and Poqo activities, 1960-1965 by C. Thomas

“…Scholars generally sing the praises of the seekers of the public good (the liberation movement) and excoriate the perpetrators of evil (the apartheid state and its functionaries).1 The liberation struggle did indeed involve the efforts of those aspiring to freedom, opportunity and republican virtue against those who oppressed African, Coloured and Indian people and held them hostage through legislation and denial of opportunity and who appropriated the best fruits of society for white South Africans. Political struggle, and indeed political combat, as it played out in South Africa, however, made for a messy picture that often defies the hero-andvillain narratives that had invariably been produced and which seeped into our national consciousness. …”
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Militancy, moderation, & Mau Mau: A reconsideration of Koinange wa Mbiyu and Peter Mbiyu Koinange by Ostendorff, DA

“…His eldest son, Peter Mbiyu, received a prestigious education abroad and returned to Kenya where he became a prominent leader for African independent education African political action. Koinange and Peter bear frequent mention in academic discussions of collaboration, discontent, nationalism, and militancy in Kenya’s colonial era.…”

Urban Mobilities in the Global South / by Uteng, Tanu Priya, editor, Lucas, Karen, 1960-, editor

Islam in the African-American Experience by Dawud Abdul-Aziz Agbere

“…The author identifies three factors that explain the racial-separatist phenomenon of African-American Islam: American racism, the Pan-African political movements of African-Americans in the early twentieth century, and the historic patterns of racial separatism in Islam. …”
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COVID-19 in Africa: An Economic and Social Interpretation (2019-2022) by Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Abass Mohammed, Jennifer Ago Obeng, Solomon Osei-Poku, Henry Tettey Yartey

“…In attempting a social and economic interpretation based on contemporary historical sense, the findings of this present study suggest that African political actors or leaders should make persistent or steady efforts to strengthen the economies of their states to lessen economic shocks and social costs that come about as a result of pandemics such as the COVID-19. …”
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