Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Gavin KitchingGavin Kitching is head of the school of politics & international relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was a pioneer in the field of African studies. His books include Class and Economic Change in Kenya (1980), Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective (1982), Marxism and Science: Analysis of an Obsession (1994), Seeking Social Justice through Globalization: Escaping a Nationalist Perspective (2001), and Wittgenstein and Society: Essays in Conceptual Puzzlement (2003). Recent articlesThe modernisation myth The determinism of Francis Fukuyama's reheated modernisation theory does not fit the historical experience of the contemporary middle east, says Gavin Kitching. |
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