New article
hey folks, check out the latest issue of Monthly Review (January 2008) for my review of Matt Meyer’s new book, Time is Tight. More reviews are in the works, so keep your eyes peeled.
Review:
Learning From Africa
Dan Berger
Reviewed: Matt Meyer, Time Is Tight: Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation: Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S. (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2007), 202 pages, paperback, $24.95.
Particularly since the fall of apartheid, the U.S. left has not looked to African social movements for political mentorship. Many who rightly look to Bolivia, Mexico, and Venezuela for inspiration do not similarly focus on the emerging movements of Kenya, Nigeria, or Tanzania. The difficult challenges of building socialism under post- and neocolonial conditions have, too often, superseded the varied lessons that many movements on the African continent have to offer a global left bent on securing a viable alternative to empire.