African Political Thinkers, Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Exile,<i>c.</i>1850–1970

Adi, Hakim

doi:10.1080/02619288.2010.502718

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“…They benefited from British education and the economic and political power of the metropole. For those who came to study, Britain offered opportunities and respite from colonialism and slavery, but at the same time subjected Africans to other forms of racism and oppression (Adi 2012: 265). As a result, many established networks and formed and joined associations, which served as systems of support and refuge.…”

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Challenging Global Geographies of Power: Sending Children back to Nigeria from the United Kingdom for Education

Kea

Maier

2017

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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West Africans have a long history of investing in their children's education by sending them to Britain. Yet, some young British-Nigerians are being sent to Nigeria for secondary education, going against a long historical grain. The movement of children from London to Nigeria is about the making of good subjects who possess particular cultural dispositions and behave in such a manner as to ensure educational success and the reproduction of middle class subjectivities within neoliberal globalisation. We maintain that this movement highlights the way in which global geographies of power -rooted in a colony -metropole divide -are being challenged and reconfigured, serving to provincialize the U.K., through the educational choices that Nigerian parents make for their children. Such small acts disrupt imagined geographies and particular spatial and temporal configurations of progress and modernity, in which former colonial subjects have travelled to the metropole for education, whilst generating counter narratives about Nigerian education, society and economy. Yet, the methods to instil new dispositions and habits in the contemporary Nigerian educational context are informed by the British educational colonial legacy of discipline through corporal punishment. Physical punishment was central to the civilizing mission of British colonial educational policy. Consequently, the choice to send children to school in Nigeria, and other African countries, as well as challenging global geographies of power, sheds light on the continued relevance of the colonial educational legacy and its disciplinary strategies which are, in turn, part of the broader project of modernity itself.

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Challenging Global Geographies of Power: Sending Children back to Nigeria from the United Kingdom for Education

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Maier

2017

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“…101 Murumbi became Secretary in the Movement for Colonial Freedom (MCF), successor to COPAI, and 'probably the first African refugee to lead a major British political organization'. 102 He spoke at the World Conference for Colonial Liberation in Margate in November 1955, an event co-sponsored by the MCF, ASC and IUSY and attended by Nkumbula and Kaunda. 103 Through these overlapping socialist networks across Afro-Asia and Europe, Murumbi attended the ASC in Bombay, an institution for which he served on the ACB coordinating committee with Markham since its inception in June 1954.…”

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Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa's 'Bandung Moment' in 1950s Asia

McCann¹

2019

Journal of World History

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Africans are staged but not often heard in discussions of the 'Bandung moment', a high-watermark of decolonial possibility and Afro-Asian connection. This article foregrounds the agency and perspectives of African activists who travelled across Asia in the 1950s. In Delhi, Rangoon and Bandung, Africans engaged, co-produced and made useable the dialogical Afro-Asian world to deconstruct colonialism and engineer alternative futures. The piece tracks these dynamics through three interlocked arenas of Afro-Asian affinity: journeys of African students to India from the 1940s; African participation in the Asian Socialist Conference in Burma, 1953-1956, and, as the geographies of Afro-Asianism shifted, radicalized and splintered, African activism within the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization in Cairo from 1957. It reveals how the overlapping internationalisms of these fora reinforced a dyad of anti-colonial politics and development in the construction of African nationhood and pan-African community. This article breaks new ground in privileging the Afro in Afro-Asian. In June 1954, the Asian Socialist Conference (ASC) published the first edition of its Anti-Colonial Bureau News Letter. After reporting the recent Bureau meeting in the Burmese hill-station of Kalaw, the news became overwhelmingly African: political crisis in Buganda, a new constitution for Tanganyika, Mau Mau and Kwame Nkrumah's electoral success in Gold Coast. The editor of the News Letter and Joint Secretary of the ASC, working in Rangoon, Burma, was a young West African journalist, James Gilbert Markham. 2 His mission: to wrangle the ideological and organizational potency of Asian national liberations and Afro-Asian solidarity towards expedited freedom for Africa and his own flagship country, Gold Coast/Ghana. Jim Markham was Nkrumah's man in Asia as the 'Bandung moment' approached its powerful and fleeting crescendo. Markham's journey to Burma and the landmark 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, was one track in the dense traffic of anti-colonial solidarity 1 Thanks to all members of the 'Afro-Asian Networks Research Collective'

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“…As has often been observed, these organisations represented the institutionalisation of attempts, overwhelmingly by those in the diaspora, to exert what they saw as racial leadership and to influence colonial policy on the African continent. A substantial literature has examined the key figures in these movements, their ideological inheritances and the increasing role that continent‐born Africans would come to play in articulating the pan‐African vision by the end of the Second World War (see especially Adi ; Appiah ; Esedebe ; Langley ; Lemelle and Kelley ; Mboukou ; Nwankwo ; Sherwood ). Just as with pan‐Islamism, pan‐Africanism was, as Barbara Blair has perceptively written, ‘simultaneously counter‐hegemonic in its aims and reflective of the very culture and system of domination against which it was reacting … a response to such exploitation and control’ that ‘was articulated primarily by the very Western‐educated, middle‐class African elite whose status had been created through participation in the colonial infrastructure’ (Blair : 122).…”

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‘United by blood’: race and transnationalism during the Belle Époque

Younis

2016

Nations and Nationalism

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The Belle Époque, often thought to be a period defined by nationalism, also saw the remarkable global proliferation of transnational affinities -especially those centred on race. Across Europe and its settler territories, notions of pan-racial affinity spread alongside imperial nationalism, in the context of technological advancement that permitted novel imaginative possibilities. Meanwhile, texts of political imagination in Africa and Asia during this period -particularly those of pan-Africanism and panIslamism -demonstrate not only an awareness of the significance of racial thinking for Europe but a theorisation of the connections between Europe's racial imagination and its policies in the colonised world. The same advances in the fields of communication and travel that opened the door for new imaginative possibilities in Europe also enabled disparate communities in the colonised world to conceive of themselves, often for the first time, as collectively racialised subjects of a European world order.

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African Political Thinkers, Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Exile,c.1850–1970

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Challenging Global Geographies of Power: Sending Children back to Nigeria from the United Kingdom for Education

Challenging Global Geographies of Power: Sending Children back to Nigeria from the United Kingdom for Education

Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa's 'Bandung Moment' in 1950s Asia

‘United by blood’: race and transnationalism during the Belle Époque

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