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Kwame Nkrumah

  • Négritude

    Négritude (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

    Sixty 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,…

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