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Thabo Mbeki: The Formation of a Philosopher of Liberation

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This chapter seeks to contribute to efforts in addressing the poverty and glaring gap in the studies of Thabo Mbeki’s political thought and practice. With the relevance and weight of political ideas, Thabo Mbeki has intrigued political activists and also arrested the attention of scholars in Africa and beyond. Mbeki’s political thinking on the world and Africa in particular has been as fascinating as it has been controversial. In their different ways, both the political activists and scholars have invested efforts in locating the true Mbeki that may be concealed behind a multiplicity of fictions, myths and some illusions about the man and his political ideas.

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  1. Critical Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    William Mpofu

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  1. Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

  2. Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

  3. Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Toyin Falola

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Mpofu, W. (2020). Thabo Mbeki: The Formation of a Philosopher of Liberation. In: Oloruntoba, S.O., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy. Palgrave Handbooks in IPE. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38922-2_16

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