Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czechs were gone, and Patrice Lumumba's Red-lining advisers had been sent packing, but now a new foreign force was at work in the confused Congo. It was that of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whose fervent hope is to rally an entire continent behind his Pan-African banner...
Intense opposition to the Union by Nkrumah's pan-Africanist bloe could possible provoke an international war, Spiro suggested, calling this threat the major obstacle to the establishment of political stability in South Africa...
Amid the excitement and prevailing uncertainty of what has been called "Africa's year," Essien U. Eissien-Udom, teaching fellow in Government, views the emergence of his native continent with a pan-african visionary's zeal tinged by a natural skepticism for politicians and a deeply felt attachment to traditional, but passing, customs. He is, as he says, "a traditionalist and a modernist...
Among his other activities at the University, Essien-Udom is currently leading a non-honors tutorial at Dunster House on "The Genesis and Relevance of Pan-Africanism to Nationalist Movements." Here he plans to deal with what he calls, "unquestionably the major problem for Africa," that of overcoming the many different divisive forces and developing common, pan-african loyalties and values: "There are Yarubas in Dahomey and Yarubas in Gold Coast who, because of the artificial lines drawn by colonialism, can no longer understand each other. Sometimes divisions like this are actually encouraged by politicians who have gotten a little...
...French Africa the movement, La Negritude, has tried to do this by building an indigenous culture for all Africa. Pan-Africanism is also cultural. It is particularly concerned with what it calls the African Personality, a type peculiar to the continent, yet characteristic for all its parts. But the Pan-Africans also have political aims, constantly encouraging regional federations with an eye to their eventual goal, a United States of Africa...