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Claude Ake (18 February 1939 in Omoku – 7 November 1996) was a Nigerian political scientist from Omoku, in Rivers State, Nigeria. Ake (pronounced AH-kay) was considered "one of Africa's foremost political philosophers."
Jun 24, 2020 · This chapter reviews the life and works of Claude Ake, a renowned African scholar who transformed from liberalism to radical political economy. It examines his theoretical matrix, his analysis of the post-colonial state, his political thoughts and his role as a public intellectual.
- Sylvester Odion Akhaine
- 2020
Jan 26, 2011 · Claude Ake (1939–1996) is one of the most influential voices in African political thought. While nation building was an important theme in the theoretical literature on Africa in the immediate post-independence period, Ake offers a seminal treatment of the disintegrative impact of the colonial presence on the emergent states in the continent.
- Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
- 2011
Claude Ake was a leading African political scientist and activist born in Nigeria whose highly significant and influential work on African political economy spanned over twenty years. His views on democracy, development, and rights widely influenced the development of social science in Africa as it is today.
- Nkiruka Ahiauzu
Claude Ake (1939-1996): An Appreciation AdeleL. Jinadu* Claude Ake who died on 7th November, 1996 aged 57 was, perhaps, the greatest and most engaging of my generation of African political scientist. He was universally acknowledged and recognised as an original thinker, a respectable and
Claude E. Ake, radical African political philosopher of the first four decades of the postcolonial era, stands out as a progressive social force whose writings ...
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Nov 15, 2021 · It is today approximately twenty-five years from that day of November 7, 1996, that Claude Ake (born 1939) moved on to the great beyond, on that fateful day in the forsaken waters surrounding...
