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Visions of African Unity

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

Editors: Grilli, Matteo; Gerits, Frank

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52911-6

ISBN: 978-3-030-52910-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Feb 10, 2021

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Introduction

Grilli, Matteo; Gerits, Frank

Pages: 1 –19

[Scholars have provided various definitions of Pan-Africanism that take its historical trajectory, institutional structures and ideological origins into account. In a narrow sense the first Pan-African Conference in London in 1900 can be seen as its starting point, while in a broader sense...
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A Different Kind of Union: An Assassination, Diplomatic Recognition, and Competing Visions of African Unity in Ghana-Togo Relations, 1956–1963

Skinner, Kate

Pages: 23 –47

[This chapter argues that the January 1963 assassination of Togolese President Sylvanus Olympio was significant in the debates and outcomes of the first meeting of the Organisation of African Unity five months later. The Olympio assassination raised fundamental questions for African leaders about...
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Thinking East African: Debating Federation and Regionalism, 1960–1977

Vaughan, Chris; MacArthur, Julie; Hunter, Emma; McCann, Gerard

Pages: 49 –75

[East African federation was a vision of regional African unity that emerged with force in the years of decolonisation. Federation never came to pass, and the East African Community that existed between 1967 and 1977 had a more limited, technocratic character, based on common services and...
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Kwame Nkrumah and the All-African Trade Union Federation: Labour and the Emancipation of Africa

Waters, Robert Anthony

Pages: 77 –105

[This chapter examines Kwame Nkrumah’s use of trade unions to gain Ghanaian independence, create the All-African Trade Union Federation (AATUF) to unite Africans from the bottom up, defeat Kenya’s Tom Mboya and his plan to affiliate the African labour movement with the West’s International...
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African Unity and the Process of Integration from the Grassroots: The Case of Mali and Senegal

Doumbia, Lamine; Diouf, Ousmane

Pages: 107 –129

[This essay sets out to investigate to what extent the dreams of African intellectuals on African unity were part of the grassroots conversation in French West Africa. It is based on an historical and anthropological analysis of some important milestones of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)...
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Visions of Unity: Southern Africa and Liberation

Saunders, Chris

Pages: 133 –155

[Over time, different people have held contrasting visions of what political unity in Southern Africa might mean. This chapter explores some of these visions and attempts that were made to bring about such unity. It begins before 1960 with the plans of white rulers to forge a greater Southern...
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Between Continent and Country: Botswana, National Liberation, and Pan-Africanist Challenges, 1960s–1980s

Houser, Myra Ann

Pages: 157 –181

[Representative of similarly positioned Frontline States, Botswana became a negotiated space during the twentieth century’s second half. Within a continent where leaders often imagined regional and continental unity, the realities of late-stage colonialism just as often undermined these visions....
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The Trajectory of Liberation: Insurgencies from Portuguese Colonialism and Their Contribution to Pan-Africanism and Solidarism Within an Emerging African International Society

Dias, Alexandra M.

Pages: 183 –211

[The chapter will focus on three concepts: Pan-Africanism, solidarism, and nationalism since the outbreak of insurgency up to the end of the Cold War in order to understand: (a) how the Portuguese-speaking national liberation movements leaderships’ trajectories contributed to the evolution of an...
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In Between the Cold War Politics: The OAU Consultative Committee and Anglo-American Diplomacy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970

Onianwa, Oluchukwu Ignatus

Pages: 213 –235

[This chapter examines the role of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Consultative Committee in the Nigerian Civil War. However, it implements a specific focus on how Anglo-American diplomacy shaped the activities of the OAU Consultative Committee during the conflict. While Britain saw the...
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‘Between their hands a fabulous geography is born’: The Maghreb Generation and the Fight to Decolonise and Unite Africa’s Minds

Tolan-Szkilnik, Paraska

Pages: 237 –259

[This chapter follows a group of Luso-African militant-poets, chief amongst them Mario de Andrade, Marcelino Dos Santos, Amilcar Cabral, and Aquino Bragança, who used Rabat as a home base for anti-colonial activism in the Portuguese colonies starting in the late 1950s. The Moroccan government...

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