The Challenge of Africa

In the mid-20th century, the challenges raised by Africa’s emergence into the modern world touched on every aspect of national and international life. In this title, first published in 1962, the foremost African sociologist of the time offers a constructive, humanitarian, and democratic approach to the problems Africa faced in this search.

At the time of original publication K. A. Busia had published a number of specialized works on Africa; this was his first volume addressed to the general reader. A former member of the Ghanaian legislature and leader of the parliamentary opposition, he had been in voluntary exile from his native land since 1959. He was Visiting Professor of Sociology at El Colegio de Mexico in 1962.