Pan-African History : Political Figures From Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787

Pan-Africanism, the perception by people of African origins and descent that they have interests in common, has been an important by-product of colonialism and the enslavement of African peoples by Europeans. Though it has taken a variety of forms over the two centuries of its fight for equality and against economic exploitation, commonality has been a unifying theme for many Black people, resulting for example in the Back-to-Africa movement in the United States but also in nationalist beliefs such as an African ‘supra-nation’. Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors’ original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dusé Mohamed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-Africanism. Book Cover......Page 2 Title......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 9 Duse Mohamed Ali......Page 15 Ahmed Ben Bella......Page 21 Edward Wilmot Blyden......Page 25 Amilcar Lopes Cabral......Page 30 Aime Cesaire......Page 34 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano......Page 40 Constance Cummings-John......Page 43 Martin Robinson Delany......Page 48 Cheikh Anta Diop......Page 54 Frederick Douglass......Page 58 W.E.B. Du Bois......Page 62 Olaudah Equiano......Page 67 Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe......Page 71 Frantz Fanon......Page 78 Amy Ashwood Garvey......Page 83 Marcus Garvey......Page 90 Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford......Page 96 James Africanus Beale Horton......Page 100 W. Alphaeus Hunton......Page 104 C.L.R. James......Page 109 Claudia Jones......Page 114 Martin Luther King Jr......Page 119 Toussaint L'Ouverture......Page 123 Patrice mery Lumumba......Page 127 Ras T. Makonnen......Page 131 Malcolm X......Page 137 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela......Page 143 Harold Moody......Page 148 Jamal Abd al-Nasir Nasser......Page 152 Francis Nwia Kofi Kwame Nkrumah......Page 157 Julius Kambarage Nyerere......Page 161 George Padmore......Page 166 Paul Leroy Robeson......Page 173 Walter Rodney......Page 177 Leopold Sedar Senghor......Page 183 Ladipo Felix Solanke......Page 188 Sekou Ahmed Toure......Page 191 I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson......Page 195 Eric Williams......Page 199 Henry Sylvester Williams......Page 204 Index......Page 209 Pan-Africanism is the perception by people of African origins and descent that they have interests in common. It has been an important by-product of colonialism and the enslavement of African peoples by Europeans. Though it has taken a variety of forms over the two centuries of its fight for equality and against economic exploitation, commonality has been a unifying theme for many black people. It has, for example, resulted in the Back-to-Africa movement in the United States but also in Nationalist beliefs such as an African 'supra-nation'.Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Duse Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism. Pan-Africanism, the perception by people of African origins and descent that they have interests in common, has been an important by product of colonialism and the enslavement of African peoples by Europeans. Though it has taken a variety of forms over the two centuries of its fight for equality and against economic exploitation, commonality has been a unifying theme for many black people, resulting for example in the Back-to-Africa movement in the United States but also in Nationalist beliefs such as an African "supra-nation". Pan African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Duse Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors'original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dusé Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism. An itinerant, well-travelled actor in the first half of his life, Duse Mohamed Ali spent the second half writing and working against what he called the 'rising tide of aggression, segregation and oppression which threatens to engulf us. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Duse Mohamed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-Africanism."--Jacket Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of he last two-hundred years