Certain Amount of Madness - The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders

About the author

Amber Murrey is an Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. Her award-winning scholarship on political ecologies and economies in Central Africa focuses on dissent and resistance amidst racialised extractive violence. Amber is the editor of 'A Certain Amount of Madness': The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara and Associate Editor of The African Geographical Review.
Horace G. Campbell teaches at Syracuse University in New York. He has been involved in the peace and justice movements for decades. He is the author of Barack Obama and Twenty-First-Century Politics (Pluto, 2010) and Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney (Hansib, 2007).
Aziz Fall teaches political science, anthropology and international relations at McGill University and at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in Canada. He is the President of the Internationalist Center (CIRFA), former coordinator of the Quebec anti-apartheid network and a founding member of GRILA (Groupe de Recherche et d'Initiative pour la Libération de l'Afrique). 

Summary

Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa’s most important anti-imperialist leaders

Product details

• Authors: Amber Murrey
• Assisted by: Amber Murrey (Editor), Horace G. Campbell (Foreword), Aziz Fall (Afterword)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2018
• EAN: 9780745337579
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3757-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 230 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Black Critique
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Burkina Faso, International Relations, Political leaders & leadership, African History, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions