Pan-Africanism

Against the background of a changing world order, colonial powers frequently challenged Pan-Africanism and the reasonable arguments voiced in Pan-African Congresses. In Pan-Africanism: Visions, Initiatives, and Transformations, Mano Delea highlights how Pan-Africanism moved its epicenter, as the circumstances of world politics changed, from the Diaspora to Africa, where it was transformed and institutionalized. Unlike other research done on Pan-Africanism, Delea offers three new additions to this academic research by addressing and analyzing the responses of leading historical newspapers to the Pan-African Congresses from 1900 to 1945, examining the transformation of and division between Pan-Africanism as a social movement and as an institutionalized phenomenon, and discussing the epistemologies and knowledge production within Pan-Africanism throughout its history.

Mano Delea is lecturer and researcher of modern history in the Department of History, European Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Foreword by Kwame Nimako
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Slavery, Abolition and Pan-Africanism
Chapter 1: World Historical Context, 1850?1899
Chapter 2: Pan-Africanism as Social Movement, 1900?1945
Chapter 3: Decolonization and the Logic of Pan-Africanism, 1946?1957
Chapter 4: Institutionalization of Pan-Africanism: Architects and Architecture, 1958?1963
Chapter 5: The Decline and Revival of Pan-Africanism: From OAU to AU, 1964?2002
Conclusion: African Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of All Africans
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Contributors