Category: Politics
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Kwame Nkrumah – The Man in a Hurry?
Kwame Nkrumah (Photo Credit: Modern Ghana) Kwame Nkrumah is perhaps the closest personification of Pan-Africanism.A charismatic statesman and prolific philosopher, his name is often invoked like a letterhead in most discussions on African unity and black empowerment.As Africa turns in affectionate hindsight to its formative ideals, Nkrumah continues to command respect for his vision and…
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Pan-Africanism and the Mercenaries of Global Capital
Ngugi WaThiongo Africa is a site of conflicting narratives. In recent times, contradictions have orbited around the development question. There is growing optimism that Africa is rising, with statistics pointing to the continent as the fastest growing region. The “Africa Rising” narrative has brokered unusual consensus between Pan-Africanists and global media echo chambers. Africa has…
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African Renaissance – The Elusive Design
Kwame Nkrumah delivers Independence speech A grand design for better days runs the thread of Pan-Africanist literature. Pan-Africanism has been up the podium from the outset of the 20th century, chanting down imperialism, propagating cohesion and charting the course to a better Africa. Tragically, the vision remains a file too large to retrieve. As if disunity…
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African Writers Have a Pro-Poor Mandate
Wole Soyinka The mainstay of African literature is nationalist sentiment. From the outset, the continent’s creative canon has assumed an overtly patriotic tenor, varying between durable writing and political ear candy. While this undercurrent hasbeenlong directed against colonial injustice, there is need to locate new frontiers, chiefly inequality within Africa, which is by farthe biggest…
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Presidents Who Were Favoured by the Muses
Kwame Nkrumah Poetry with a nationalist accent is one of the most enduring monuments of African literature. A thread of love letters – impassioned, potent, poetic endearments to Africa – was unwound at the high tide of liberation. Europe has commissioned poet laureates to give her official occasions the rhyme factor. In Africa, a coterie of…
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Stereotype vs. Reality: Rethinking Issue-Based Literature
Helon Habila (Photo Credit: Parresia Publishers) Poverty is in the orbit of controversy. A point of order has been raised with respect to the direction contemporary African literature seems to be heading. The presentation of the continent as perpetually conflict-riven and impoverished is eliciting a critical backlash. Dissenters are stepping into the line of fire…
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Politics, Corporate Conspiracy and Intellectual Prostitution
Tolstoy’s Confession The occasion is a mid-century writers’ retreat. Out in remote detachment from the corporate scheme of life, the writers empty their hearts one to another about the dirty laundry which comes with their trade. “Strike for Life” author John Swinton steps up the podium and laments, Jeremiah-style, the degeneration of the writer from…
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