Word: pan-african
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...have absolutely no intention of delivering Guinea either to Western or Eastern influence," says Touré, proclaiming his creed to be "Pan-African neutralism." Even if his procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
...save his pursuer undue trouble, Kimathi politely replied (in a letter to a local newspaper in Nairobi): "I shall be away from Kenya in November and December visiting Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. After that, I attend a Pan-African conference in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. (Signed) Kimathi, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief. Defense Council, Land Freedom Army...
...measure of success, it will have importance far beyond the borders of South Africa. It may help to temper the terrorism of the Mau Mau group in Kenya. It will give new hope to nonviolent efforts for independence in West Africa. It could lead to a democratic, pan-African movement for freedom based on nonviolence. This would be of great significance not only for Africa but to the whole world...
...Fifth Pan-African Congress," Nkrumah told a group of hot-eyed students in 1945, "calls on the workers and farmers ... to organize . . . the masses. Colonial and Subject Peoples of the World, Unite!" He was 36 and broke, a lonely colored man living in shabby lodgings in London's East...
...economics and history at Atlanta University. Famed among Negroes as editor of The Crisis, which he founded in 1910, Author Du Bois became widely known beyond intellectual circles of his own race as an executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founder of the Pan-African congresses, author, in 1919, of a sensational article on racial discrimination in the U. S. Army that led to a brief suspension of The Crisis...