Pan Africanism

West African Pilot: Azikiwe’s Pan Africanist Organ

Nnamdi Azikiwe is one of the foremost nationalists in the history of Nigerian politics and had a hand at mentoring Africa’s first post-colonial President, Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah. After an accomplished academic passage at Harvard in the US...

Katlego Mereko·over 4 years ago

Queer film in Africa is rising – even in countries with the harshest anti-LGBTIQ+ laws

A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of African co...

Gibson Ncube Lecturer, Stellenbosch University·7 months ago

Kwame Nkrumah: Why, Every Now and Then, His Legacy is Questioned

Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence in 1957 – the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve this feat. He’s still remembered for his unrepentant anti-colonial stance and strident Pan-Africanism. Above all, he is regarded as one ...

Akwasi Kwarteng Amoako-Gyampah·over 4 years ago

Winnie and Mandela biography: a masterful tale of South Africa’s troubled, iconic power couple

A new book on South African liberation struggle icons Nelson and Winnie Mandela is a masterful biography of the pair. It’s a work of scholarship involving an immense body of primary and secondary research, written with flair and panache ...

Gavin Evans Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London·8 months ago

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