Pan-Africanism in Modern Times

Challenges, Concerns, and Constraints

Olayiwola Abegunrin, Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978777330
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

For about one hundred years, Pan-Africanism—as a social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical idea—thrived. Towards the tail-end of the twentieth century, however, it waned. But in more recent times, there has been noticeable resurgence. And as we approach the second decade of the twenty-first century, there are indications of significant transformations vis-à-vis the role and place of Pan-Africanism and Pan-Africanists. Consequently, this book offers a new, further, and better understanding of Pan-Africanism—not just from the traditional, African, and African American points of view, but also from a global perspective. It does so by offering an analysis of its early years in terms of the personalities, ideas, and conferences that shaped it; it also examines many of the factors that brought about its decline—and its eventual rebirth.

Contributing to this seminal work are scholars of different but complementary styles and intellect, who deviate from the more traditional or obvious approaches. For instance, one of the chapters explores Pan-Africanism from the geographic perspective, while another examines the role and place of women in the Pan-African movement. There are also voices that advance the conversation from the regional and continental viewpoint—hence chapters that investigate the status of Pan-Africanism in Latin America, in the Caribbean, and Islam and Pan-Africanism in the modern world. Ethnonationalism and xenophobia are also part of the treatise because, increasingly, these injurious phenomena are reemerging in Africa's landscape and consciousness.

In an increasingly interdependent and interrelated world, this book also suggests that Pan-Africanism will undergo a metamorphosis: problems and challenges will be seen and tackled from the globalization and global common perspective. Pan-Africanism in Modern Times goes beyond the historicity of Pan-Africanism and examines the challenges, concerns, and constraints it faces; and also examines it from an inclusive perspective to have a broader understanding of this phenomenon and its future trajectory.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Origins of Pan-Africanism
• 2 Pan-African Congresses, 1893–1974
• 3 Pan-Africanism and the Struggle for the Liberation of Zimbabwe
• 4 Xenophobia and Pan-Africanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
• 5 Pan-Africanism and the African Diaspora
• 6 Pan-Africanism in the United States
• 7 Pan-Africanism
• 8 Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean
• 9 Blacks in Asia
• 10 Islam and Pan-Africanism in the Modern World
• 11 Pan-Africanism and Women
• 12 Sankara, Rawlings, and Gaddafi
• 13 Pan-Africanism
• 14 Resurgence and the New Direction of Pan-Africanism
• 15 Biography of Some Notable Pan-Africanists
• APPENDIX A
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors