Building the African Nation: The African Association and Pan-africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa - Couverture rigide

Sanders, Ethan R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009625608 ISBN 13 : 9781009625609

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

How did people in East Africa come to see themselves as 'Africans,' and where did these concepts originate from? Utilizing a global intellectual history lens, Ethan Sanders traces how ideas stemming from global black intellectuals of the Atlantic and others shaped the imaginations of East Africans in the early twentieth century. This study centers on the African Association, a trans-territorial pan-Africanist organization that promoted global visions of African unity. No mere precursor to anti-colonial territorial nationalism, the organization eschewed territorial thinking and sought to build a continental African nation from the 1920s to the 1940s, at odds with later forms of nationalism in Africa. Sanders explores in depth the thought of James Aggrey, Paul Sindi Seme, and Julius Nyerere, three major twentieth-century pan-Africanists. This book rethinks definitions of pan-Africanism, demonstrating how expressions of both practical and redemptive pan-Africanism inspired those who joined the African Association and embraced an African identity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ethan R. Sanders is an associate professor of history at Regis University in Denver. He is a scholar of global intellectual history with a focus on East Africa. His work has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Studies Review, and the Journal of History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009625608
• ISBN 13: 9781009625609
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie