Professor Adekeye Adebajo is of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has just edited a book entitled The Pan-African Pantheon – prophets, poets and philosophers. It was presented to the ...
In a new book, the journalist Howard W. French tells the story of decolonization and pan-Africanism through the life of Ghana’s visionary first leader, Kwame Nkrumah. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...
In 1957, as Cold War paranoia gripped the world, African Americans trudged toward greater freedoms. That year, Martin Luther King Jr. and his comrades founded the Southern Christian Leadership ...
Is it still possible to critique Pan-Africanism? The topic is divisive and often off-limits, as decided by ayatollahs using mystical language and with their quick-to-issue-a-fatwa ways. It’s easy to ...
Pan-Africanism in the areas of arts, music, politics, entertainment, film-making, leadership was the theme of the just-concluded international conference in Abuja on Pan-Africanism and the Forging of ...
The African diaspora has never been a silent witness to Africa’s struggles. It has always been a carrier of ideas, memory and resistance. Today, however, something deeper is taking shape. A new ...
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The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe after March 30. 🎧 Click the red listen button to hear WBEZ’s interview with ...