\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;The World-System and Africa\u003c/em\u003e, Immanuel Wallerstein examines three important, interconnected themes that link Africa and the capitalist world-system of the last 500 years. While drawing attention to the structural crisis of the modern world-system, Wallerstein uses the first set of essays to\u0026nbsp;explore the impact of this worldwide structural crisis on Africa. Next, he turns to identity politics, a political stance that came to prominence in the\u0026nbsp;last thirty years, and considers the world-system context for the African dilemmas posed by this approach. Not unique to Africa, identity politics\u0026nbsp;has become central to political struggles everywhere in the world-system. Finally, Wallerstein reflects on African thinkers\u0026rsquo; analyses of current affairs\u0026nbsp;both in the world-system and in Africa. Coming from someone who has been involved in writing about Africa for over seventy years, Wallerstein\u0026nbsp;argues that if Africa is going to play an appropriate and significant role in resolving the structural crisis of the modern world-system, it is crucial\u0026nbsp;that there continue to be a well-informed and intellectually relevant debate about the issues involved, the moral choices to be made, and the political strategies to follow.\u003c/p\u003e
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