Pan-Africanism or Communism
George Padmore
Two roads out of empire, and a case for the African one.
Padmore, a Trinidadian who had broken with the Communist International, argued that Pan-Africanism rather than Soviet communism offered the surer path to African liberation and unity. Drawing on his part in organizing the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress, he traced the movement's history and its ties to figures such as Kwame Nkrumah. The book helped set the intellectual agenda for decolonization and nonalignment.
Its legacy. Shaped the thinking of a generation of independence leaders.
- Author
- George Padmore
- First published
- 1956
- Genre
- Political history
- Theme
- Pan-Africanism, Race and the Diaspora
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