ADC Publications
Short, sourced readings on the African world.
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Who was Henry Sylvester Williams?
Read →: Who was Henry Sylvester Williams?The Caribbean lawyer who gave Pan-Africanism its first meeting.
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Who sets the terms of cooperation?
Read →: Who sets the terms of cooperation?V. Y. Mudimbe argued that partnerships between Euro-America and Africa are unequal before anyone sits down at the table.
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What does it cost to set the West at a distance?
Read →: What does it cost to set the West at a distance?V. Y. Mudimbe’s The Scent of the Father asks what an African order of knowledge would require.
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Négritude
Read →: NégritudeNégritude (ne.ɡʁi.tyd), noun, French. A literary and political movement begun in 1930s Paris by Black francophone students, among them Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon-Gontran Damas, that affirmed African heritage against French colonial assimilation. Origin…
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The Pan-African movement, 1897–1958
Read →: The Pan-African movement, 1897–1958Sixty years of Pan-Africanism, from a London association to a conference on African soil. The record 1897, London: Trinidadian barrister Henry Sylvester Williams founds the African Association to speak for Africans across the British Empire. 1900,…