Showing papers on "Diaspora published in 1975"

Ethnic Identity, Political Integration, and National Development: the Igbo Diaspora in Nigeria

Abstract: In his Path to Nigerian Freedom – the blueprint for the nation-state he had envisioned – Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the man who later came to be one of the leading figures on the Nigerian political scene, stated categorically in 1947:Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English’ or ‘Welsh’ or ‘French’. The word ‘Nigeria’ is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria from those who do not.

African Perspectives: Papers in the History, Politics and Economics of Africa, Presented to Thomas Hodgkin

Abstract: Scholars from all over the world contributed to the Festschrift volumes presented as a tribute to Thomas Hodgkin on his sixtieth birthday. This book contains a selection from those contributions, reflecting the wide scope of Hodgkin's own interests, work and influence in the field of African and Tiers Monde studies. All the contributions represent original and previously unpublished work in the fields of African history, Islamic studies and the sociology of religion, and also of contemporary political and economic studies. They are particularly concerned to examine questions of a general and theoretical importance, often by means of detailed case studies. Among the countries thus discussed are Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Senegal, Guine Bissao, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Gambia - and, as part of the African diaspora, Jamaica. Fittingly, these essays share one of the main features which have distinguished Thomas Hodgkin's own work - they take a critically evaluative view of some of the established interpretations and conventional wisdoms surrounding their subjects. This book will provide an introduction in depth to the whole field of African studies as well as being essential material for specialists in many disciplines."

The Black Diaspora in Pan-African Perspective

Abstract: (1975). The Black Diaspora in Pan-African Perspective. The Black Scholar: Vol. 7, Black Diaspora, pp. 2-13.

The Comintern, South Africa and the Black Diaspora

Abstract: In late 1927 the Communist Party of South Africa learned with surprise and shock that the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow had drafted a radical new policy for its distant affiliate in southernmost Africa, the only communist party south of the Sahara. The new policy, focused upon the slogan, “an independent native South African republic, as a stage towards a workers' and peasants' government with full, equal rights for all races, black, colored, and white” seemed to a majority of the small multiracial membership of the South African party to be directly counter to the old policy which, after a difficult process of internal disagreements and tactical reorientation, was bringing its first significant wave of recruits and support among the black majority of the country. The slogan proposed from Moscow, quenching dreams of socialism, generated widespread opposition within the party, but an unhearing Comintern decreed in October, 1928, that the South Africans must accept the new line. The consequences of the imposition of the new slogan and the subsequent bolshevization of the party shook the Communist Party of South Africa to its roots.

The Politics of Caribbean Music

Abstract: (1975). The Politics of Caribbean Music. The Black Scholar: Vol. 7, Black Diaspora, pp. 23-29.

Who Were The First Americans

Abstract: (1975). Who Were The First Americans? The Black Scholar: Vol. 7, Black Diaspora, pp. 33-41.

Africa and the Black Diaspora: The Future in Historical Perspective

Abstract: One out of every five black men lives outside Africa, most of them in the western hemisphere. Some, like the black Cubans, are now native speakers of Spanish. Some have grown up with the Portuguese language in the ghettoes of Brazil. Still others, scattered from Haiti to Martinique, are part of the French-speaking world. And there are even a few Arabic speakers in parts of the Middle East. But the largest single group outside Africa are the 'Afro-Saxons/ black people whose mother tongue is English.1 They include black Americans, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, and, increasingly, black Britons and black Canadians.