Visions of African unity : new perspectives on the history of Pan-Africanism and African unification projects
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Continental Visions of Unity: African History and Pan-Africanism(s) -- International Visions of Unity: International History and Africa -- Historical Visions of African Un...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Springer International Publishing,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | African Histories and Modernities
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| Schlagworte: | African Union Pan-Africanism Africa-Politics and government-1960- Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Continental Visions of Unity: African History and Pan-Africanism(s) -- International Visions of Unity: International History and Africa -- Historical Visions of African Unity: African History and the Archives -- Overview of the Book -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part I: Imagining and Debating African Unity -- Chapter 2: A Different Kind of Union: An Assassination, Diplomatic Recognition, and Competing Visions of African Unity in Ghana-Togo Relations, 1956-1963 -- An Assassination and a Diplomatic Dilemma -- Investigating a 'Hideous Plot' -- Reunification Versus Union -- Union Versus Unité: The Pressure to Choose -- Party Divisions, Cross-Border Missions, and 'the will of the people' -- A Secret Union Agreement -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: Thinking East African: Debating Federation and Regionalism, 1960-1977 -- The Colonial Origins of East African Regionalism -- The Rise and Fall of East African Federation -- Federation and Pan-Africanism -- Federation and State-Building -- Federation and Alternative Sovereignties -- Uplighting Statehood: Regionalism and East African Citizenries -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: Kwame Nkrumah and the All-African Trade Union Federation: Labour and the Emancipation of Africa -- The Anti-colonial Socialist Labour Alliance -- Crushing Gold Coast Labour, Winning British Favour -- Independence and Pan-Africanist Labour -- Labour Freedom for Thee, but Not for We -- Economic Collapse and a Communist Lifeline -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 5: African Unity and the Process of Integration from the Grassroots: The Case of Mali and Senegal. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783030529116 3030529118 9783030529109 303052910X |