Stokely Carmichael and Pan-Africanism: Back to Black Power

1973 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Black Power ◽  
Pan Africanism

“Mau Mau are Angels … Sent by Haile Selassie”: A Kenyan War in Jamaica

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-744
Author(s):  
Myles Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Mau Mau ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Alternative Method ◽  
Marcus Garvey ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article traces the impact of Kenya's Mau Mau uprising in Jamaica during the 1950s. Jamaican responses to Mau Mau varied dramatically by class: for members of the middle and upper classes, Mau Mau represented the worst of potential visions for a route to black liberation. But for marginalized Jamaicans in poorer areas, and especially Rastafari, Mau Mau was inspirational and represented an alternative method for procuring genuine freedom and independence. For these people, Mau Mau epitomized a different strand of pan-Africanism that had most in common with the ideas of Marcus Garvey. It was most closely aligned with, and was the forerunner of, Walter Rodney, Stokely Carmichael, and Black Power in the Caribbean. Theirs was a more radical, violent, and black-focused vision that ran alongside and sometimes over more traditional views. Placing Mau Mau in the Jamaican context reveals these additional levels of intellectual thought that are invisible without its presence. It also forces us to rethink the ways we periodize pan-Africanism and consider how pan-African linkages operated in the absence of direct contact between different regions.

Decolonization, Desegregation, and Black Power

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-286
Author(s):  
Michael O. West
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Black World

As universal in its reach and aspirations as Garveyism, Black Power came to demand the completion and fulfilment of the visions and promises of decolonization and desegregation. It is hardly accidental that Black Power, for all its global impact, resonated most forcefully in the some of the same areas of the black world where Garveyism was most vibrant, namely the United States, Africa (especially Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana), and the Anglophone Caribbean. Indeed, the two phenomena, Garveyism and Black Power, were often linked organically and personally: a number of groups and individuals with origins in Garveyism would later join Black Power. Writers such as Amy Jacques Garvey and Walter Rodney expanded on Garvey’s work, and Pan-Africanism, the All-African People’s Conference, and Rastafari all owe a debt to Garveyism.

The Political Economy of Black Power

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond S. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Black Power ◽  
The Political

Blackism and Pan-Africanism in Post-Colonial African Literature: A Reading of Femi Osofisan’s Plays

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement Olujide Ajidahun
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Black People ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
New Social Order

This article is a thematic study of Femi Osofisan’s plays that explicitly capture the essence of blackism, nationalism and pan-Africanism as a depiction of the playwright’s ideology and his total commitment to the evolution of a new social order for black people. The article critically discusses the concepts of blackism and pan-Africanism as impelling revolutionary tools that seek to re-establish and reaffirm the primacy, identity, and personality of black people in Africa and in the diaspora. It also discusses blackism as an African renaissance ideology that campaigns for the total emancipation of black people and a convulsive rejection of all forms of colonialism, neo-colonialism, Eurocentrism, nepotism and ethnic chauvinism, while advocating an acceptance of Afrocentrism, unity and oneness of blacks as indispensable tools needed for the dethronement of all forms of racism, discrimination, oppression and dehumanisation of black people. The article hinges the underdevelopment of the black continent on the deliberate attempt of the imperialists and their black cronies who rule with iron hands to keep blacks in perpetual slavery. It countenances Femi Osofisan’s call for unity and solidarity among all blacks as central to the upliftment of Africans. The article recognises Femi Osofisan as a strong, committed and formidable African playwright who utilises theatre as a veritable and radical platform to fight and advocate for the liberation of black people by arousing their revolutionary consciousness and by calling on them to hold their destinies in their hands if they are to be emancipated from the shackles of oppression.

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