Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breadth of scope. The authors, who come from a wide variety of backgrounds and educational experiences, have written on topics ranging from Los Angeles to Rhodesia, from suicide to the symbolic meaning of a well-kept lawn, from a study of Negroes' reactions to Harvard to the origins of Pan-Africanism. Although a few of the articles are scholarly, the aim of the Journal does not seem to be erudition; it is a platform for under-represented opinions and theories...
...most interesting article, Pan Africanism and the White Man's Burden, was written by Aryee Quaye Armah who graduated from Harvard in 1963 and is presently studying at the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana. Armah attempts to prove that Pan-Africanism is not simply a reaction to British colonialism, but rather is an outgrowth of it. Summarizing his thesis, Ahmah says "that the seeds of Pan-Africanism can be found in Britain's imperial ideology, and that it is through the working out of the (British) ideology that Pan-Africanism came to fruition...
Development towards Pan-Africanism is then split up into four stages. In the first stage Armah describes how the African intelligentsia lost its influence when local priests and chiefs were defeated by Christian Imperialists. In the second stage the intelligentsia was deeply influenced by a recognition of its own impotence and only acted in humble obedience to British superiority...
What is most striking about Armah's article is his ability to verbalize the subtle shift of power from the Colonial to the Pan-African. He demonstrates how the British were caught in a logical inconsistency whereby they accepted infinite perfectability for themselves, but denied that it applied to Africans. There had been a total reversal of roles: the British, once optimistic about their own capabilities, were forced to take a pessimistic view towards African potential, while the Africans outgrew their sense of inferiority and were now optimistic about the possibilities of Pan-African growth. For all his vague historical...
...skill in "race and human relations, first, and foreign relations, particularly African, second." He is an adviser to the State Department on African affairs, a member of the National Commission on Accrediting, board member of the American Association for the United Nations. He flies so much that he has Pan Am's schedules almost memorized...