Category: Pan-Africanism
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In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan Africanism
Click or not: In Defence of Africa’s Relationship with USAID: Countering False Claims of Radical Pan AfricanismWe may have a new form of what I will refer to as a fake Pan Africanism in our African immediate consciousness. One that has recently found voice following the dramatic and tragic cutting of foreign aid assistance by the new United States government led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Accompanied by the quite… …
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The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)
Click or not: The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)As an African you will regularly reflect on your being, your othered ‘blackness’ and also your material standing in a now highly globalized perception of what can be the ‘good life’. And in all of its mimicry of the colonial legacy of global north societies. Or if we were to be a little bit more… …
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The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)
Click or not: The Changing Character of Pan Africanism (Fighting Among Ourselves)As an African you will regularly reflect on your being, your othered ‘blackness’ and also your material standing in a now highly globalized perception of what can be the ‘good life’. And in all of its mimicry of the colonial legacy of global north societies. Or if we were to be a little bit more… …
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Emerging Global Complexities for the Next African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson
Click or not: Emerging Global Complexities for the Next African Union (AU) Commission ChairpersonOn Monday 13 January 2025, the former prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga paid a courtesy call on Zimbabwe’s President E.D Mnangagwa in Harare. It turns out he has been on a tour of a number of African states and meeting with their presidents in order to let them know that he is bidding to… …