Third World Communism in Crisis: The Fall of Afro-Marxism

Issue Date Summer 1990
Volume 1
Issue 3
Page Numbers 92-101
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About the Author

Jeffrey Herbst is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Government. The author of State Politics in Zimbabwe (1990), he is currently doing research on economic reform in Ghana with the help of a Robert McNamara Fellowship from the World Bank.

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