Nkrumah, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism: The Bureau of African Affairs Collection

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Grilli
Keyword(s):  
Pan African ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Domestic Policies ◽  
African Nationalism

Abstract:The article describes the Bureau of African Affairs Collection. First it introduces the history of the archive by examining the crucial events that influenced its state and accessibility. Then, it describes the contents of the collection, underlying its importance for the study of Kwame Nkrumah’s domestic and foreign policies and African nationalism at a continental level. The documents included in the Bureau of African Affairs Collection provide unique insights into both Nkrumah’s foreign and domestic policies. In particular, they include invaluable information on his Pan-African policy. Moreover, the documents shed new light on the presence of African liberation movements in Ghana in the period 1957 to 1966. Thus, this Collection can attract scholars interested in both Ghanaian history as well as the history of Pan-Africanism and African nationalism at a continental level.

The Wages of Blackness

Jah Kingdom ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique A. Bedasse
Keyword(s):  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Newly Independent States

When Rastafarians began to petition the Tanzanian government for the “right of entry” in 1976, they benefitted from a history of linkages between Jamaica and Tanzania, facilitated largely by the personal and political friendship between Julius Nyerere and Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley. This is the subject of the third chapter, which provides essential context for the repatriation. The chapter begins by unearthing the pan-African politics of Michael Manley, which he constructed after appropriating Rastafarian symbols and consciousness into his political campaigns. It also puts a spotlight on the extent to which African leaders of newly independent states helped to define the pan-Africanism of this period by detailing the impact of Julius Nyerere on Manley’s thinking. Finally, it juxtaposes Manley’s acceptance in pan-African circles across Africa with his personal struggle over his own perceived distance from blackness, as a member of Jamaica’s “brown’ elite. In the end, Rastafari was absolutely central to generating the brand of politics surrounding race, color and class in the moment of decolonization. The history of repatriation transgresses analytical boundaries between state and nonstate actors.

Julius Nyerere: from a Territorial Nationalist to a Pan African Nationalist

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-332
Author(s):  
Ng’wanza Kamata
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
African Nationalism

Abstract Africa has largely experienced two types of nationalism namely territorial nationalism and Pan Africanism. Both territorial and Pan African nationalism were anti-imperialists but the former’s mission was limited to attainment of independence from colonialism. Few nationalist leaders who led their countries to independence transcended territorial nationalism; one of them was Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. Nyerere was a Pan African nationalist although he began as a nationalist concerned with the liberation of his country Tanganyika. He spent most of his political life championing for African Unity believing that it was the only instrument to totally liberate Africa. How did his ideas and practices which initially placed him in the ranks of territorial nationalists advance into Pan Africanism? This article examines this question and explores Nyerere’s aspects of Pan Africanism.

The Pan-African Movement: A History of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick J. Macdonald ◽  
Immanuel Geiss ◽  
Ann Keep ◽  
Adekunle Ajala
Keyword(s):  
Pan African ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
History Of

‘LET US RALLY AROUND THE FLAG’: FOOTBALL, NATION-BUILDING, AND PAN-AFRICANISM IN KWAME NKRUMAH'S GHANA

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Darby
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
African Unity ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Scientific

AbstractThe nationalistic fervour that greeted Ghana's performances in the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa powerfully evoked memories of an earlier period in the history of the Ghanaian state that witnessed Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana, draw on the game as a rallying point for nation-building and pan-African unity. This article uncovers this history by analysing Nkrumah's overt politicisation of football in the late colonial and immediate postcolonial periods. This study not only makes a novel contribution to the growing historical and social scientific literature on what is arguably Africa's most pervasive popular cultural form but also deepens our understanding of one of the continent's most significant political figures.

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