Political Science and National Integration—A Radical Approach

1 May 1967

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Vol. 5 (1) , 1-11
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00013987

Abstract

Certain historians are inclined to view the political awakening of Asia and Africa as part of an ongoing, world-wide, social revolution, previously inaugurated in Europe and America. In that perspective, colonial nationalism and its aftermath appear to involve primarily another ‘revolt of the masses’, another rising of the ‘great uwashed’, another ‘search for status’ by the lower classes of the world.