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A Certain Amount of Madness The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara by Amber Murrey
4.0
Some of these essays are jargon-ridden in order to avoid saying the word "capitalism" since, as one of the last essays mentions, discussing Sankara from his own Marxist-influenced perspective is something that contemporary scholarship and perception in the West ties itself in knots to avoid doing. Many of these essays, however, are well-written and contain a lot of useful information about a criminally under-discussed figure and time period.
The worst essay is absolutely, unequivocally, Craig Phelan's. Whoever that man is, his political analysis is laughably bad and his work in this volume embodies the worst tendencies of white academics to soften the politics of the Global South into something palatable by liberals who don't want to question the current order.
The worst essay is absolutely, unequivocally, Craig Phelan's. Whoever that man is, his political analysis is laughably bad and his work in this volume embodies the worst tendencies of white academics to soften the politics of the Global South into something palatable by liberals who don't want to question the current order.