Category: History
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Nyerere – Homage to Village-Wise Statesman
Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah (PBS) When politicians run their tenure, they are survived by our monuments, but statesmen are survived by their legacy. Pan-Africanist father figure Julius Nyerere towers immortally in his manifold legacy for the continent, chiefly freedom, unity and development. Although there are still promises to keep, at a time when inequality…
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Counter-Extremes of the Black Identity
Add caption Book: Black Prophetic Fire Author: Cornel West Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 978-0-870-0352-7 Dancehall sing-jay Bugle plays back a thumbnail sequence of Pan-Africanist father-figures, tagging in the first black U.S president Barack Obama as the high point of the freedom train. “The Journey” video by Bugle is an example of the excitement occasioned by…
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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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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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Terence Ranger and the Zimbabwean Nationalists
Writing Revolt Book: Writing Revolt Author: Terence Ranger Publisher: Weaver Press (2013) Terence Ranger’s latest memoir “Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67” is a vastly riveting account which tags the historian in the mid-century revolutionary ferment. “Of the making of many books about Zimbabwe there seems to be no end,” Ranger observes in…
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Marcus Garvey – Retrospect
Marcus Garvey (Photo Credit: Africa is a Country) Marcus Garvey remains one of the keynote influences of the African renaissance. From the streets of Harlem, far and wide , the grand patriarch of Pan-Africanist thought commanded the arena with successive generations under his inspiration. The Provisional President of Africa, as Garvey was known to his…
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Stanelake Samkange – A Reconstruction
On Trial for My Country When the Ides of March claimed of Zimbabwe’s most accomplished man of letters, Prof Stanelake Samkange, in 1988, former Chief Justice Enoch Dumbutshena’s graveside eulogy attacked Zimbabwe for ignoring its best writers. Samkange was a first generation African novelist, public intellectual, journalist, nationalist, educationist, ethnographer, philosopher and historian. Ironically, the…
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