Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, by Lamin SannehAbolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, by Lamin Sanneh. Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 291 pp. $33.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper).

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-598
Author(s):  
Olatunji Ojo
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
American Blacks

The Garvey Movement in British West Africa

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Okonkwo
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
West African ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
The West ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Blacks ◽  
Garvey Movement ◽  
African Nationalism

The paper seeks to present new information concerning the activities of the West African branches of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. The author has included biographical profiles of the British West African Garveyites to integrate the Garvey movement into the history of West African nationalism and Pan-Africanism.It is argued that Garveyism was welcomed in British West Africa by the older cultural nationalists who saw Garveyism as an extension of Blyden's ideas. Pan-African sentiments of racial unity and solidarity of African and American blacks, pride in the history of the race, and self-help projects had wide circulation in West Africa from the latter part of the nineteenth century, as a result of Blyden's influence. Joining the branches of the U.N.I.A. was a practical demonstration of a long-standing commitment to cultural and racial nationalism among the West African elite.The Garvey movement also marked the beginning of a new era in West African nationalism. Garvey's radical pronouncements on freeing Africa from colonial rule were unacceptable to the older cultural nationalists who dominated the Garvey groups. They disavowed any interest in organizing a central nation for the race. However, Garvey's ideas may have had long-term effects. By the 1930s the idea of independence from colonial rule seemed more attractive to the West African nationalists. Garvey was one of the first to speak out boldly for freedom from colonialism.The concrete achievements of the West African branches of the U.N.I.A. were small indeed. Nigeria had the most Garveyite activity in British West Africa. There was an agent for the Black Star Line in Lagos and a branch of the U.N.I.A. and A.C.L. The Gold Coast had the least Garveyite activity, probably because of their involvement in the National Congress of British West Africa and also because of their more critical attitude towards co-operation with American blacks. They believed that Africans were best qualified to lead any joint efforts for intra-racial co-operation.

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 1508
Author(s):  
Donald R. Wright ◽  
Lamin Sanneh
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
American Blacks

Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-144
Author(s):  
Laura Levine Frader ◽  
Ian Merkel ◽  
Jessica Lynne Pearson ◽  
Caroline Séquin
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
French Caribbean ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
French West Africa ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
French Feminism

Lisa Greenwald, Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018). Eric T. Jennings, Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018). Kathleen Keller, Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 853
Author(s):  
Penelope Campbell ◽  
Lamin Sanneh
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
American Blacks
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