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    African Socialism in Kwame Nkrumah’s Africa Must Unite (1963) and Mohamed Boudiaf’s Où Va L’Algerie? (1964)
    (UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU, 2020) REMOUCHE, Tassadit; SLIMANI, Fatiha
    This piece of research studies Scientific Socialism in Africa during the twentieth century withinthe contexts of Pan-Africanism and Nationalism. The Pan-African aspect of Scientific Socialism is studied in relation to Kwame Nkrumah’s Africa Must Unite (1963) and the nationalist one is dealt with in relation to Mohamed Boudiaf’s Où Va L’Algerie? (1964). While Nkrumah adopts Scientific Socialism in the context of Pan-Africanism as a means that unite all the African countries, Boudiaf adopts it in the context of Nationalism, focusing only on his motherland ‘Algeria’. Scientific Socialism in this dissertation is studied according to its definition provided by James McCain in his article entitled “Perceptions of Socialism in Post-Socialist Ghana: An Experimental Analysis”. McCain views Scientific Socialism as a suitable doctrine that serves the African countries, since each country can adopt it according to its circumstances. For him, Scientific Socialism is the form of Socialism that responds to the African needs, because it is builton observation, experimentation and implication. In fact, leaders must take into consideration the social, economic, cultural and political conditions of their countries, and then they must implement a governmental policy which fits these conditions. In our analysis, we have shown how Scientific Socialism is adopted in Africa Must Unite and Où Va L’Algerie? by referring to the different sectors on which it is based. Our analysis has shown that both Nkrumah and Boudiaf utilize Scientific Socialism in order to bring development in each ones’ society, even though the doctrine is used by the two authors in different contexts.