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African Studies and the Study of the Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2017

Uma O. Eleazu
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Imagine a conference of West African heads of state or government held in 1870 to discuss what West Africa would be like in the year 1900. The list of participants at such a conference might well have included Lat Dior, the darnel of Cayor (Senegal), Samouri Toure (Guinea), his enemy Tie-ba of Sikasso, the President of Liberia, Obas of Benin and Lagos, King Gezo, King Gelele, King Tofa (Porto Novo), King Ja-ja (Opobo), Chief Na-na (Itshekiri), Sultan Attahiru of Sokoto, and Asantehene Prempeh.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , Winter 1974 , pp. 3 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1974 

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References

1 See for example, Boniface I. Obichere, “The African Factor in the Establishment of French Authority in West Africa, 1800-1900,” in Prosser Gifford and William R. Louis, eds., France and Britain in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), pp. 443-490.

2 Ibid., p. 478.

3 Robin Hallet, ed.. Records of the African Association 1788-1831 (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1964), p. 42.

4 Ibid., p. 120.

5 Ibid., p. 121.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid., pp. 122-128. All questions and quotes in this and in thefollowing two paragraphs came from these pages.

8 PS,newsletter of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 1,No.3(1968),p.14.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 These titles were culled from various issues of the African Studies Newsletter.Information on other interesting research abounds.

12 Daniel Bell, ed.Toward the Year 2000: Work in Progress(Boston: Beacon Press, 1967).

13 Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Weiner,The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Twenty Years(New York: The Macmillan Co., 1967), p. 398.

14 Lewis Mumford,The Story of Utopias(New York: The Viking Press, 1962), p. 15.

15 Kahn and Wiener,The Year 2000chapter 1.

16 Mumford,The Story of Utopias,p. 21.

17 For some of these arguments see C. S. Whitaker, Jr., “A Dysrhythmic Process of Political Change,” in World Politics,19 (January 1967), pp. 190-217. Also, Whitaker, The Politics of : Continuity and Change in Northern Nigeria 1946-1966(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970), chapter 1. Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne H. Rudolph, The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967), chapter 1.

18 The Story of Utopiasp. 7.

19 Robert A. Packenham, “Political Development Doctrines in the American Foreign Aid Program,” in World Politics,18 (January 1966), pp. 216-235.