Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

This article advances the argument that an African nationalist ideology crafted in Diaspora by African ideologues in the 19th and early 20th centuries contained tenets that addressed the fundamental development challenges faced in present day Africa. The ideology centered on African interests ranging from resistance against the institution of slavery to the formation of what was referred to as an “African nationality” with an independent African continent governed by Africans against the background of African history and Africa's contribution toward human civilization. However, after African decolonization in the 20th century, ideologues in the African leadership structure did not seem to have learned lessons from the vision and processes in the formulation of an ideology by their precursors in Diaspora, hence nullifying what probably would have resulted in an African renaissance grounding African national development in an Africanbased ideology.

Keywords

African Diaspora African nationalism African ideology African development Kwame Nkrumah Edward Blyden Marcus Garvey NEPAD Mouamar Gaddafi Julius Nyrere African colonialism,apartheid

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Blake, C. (1997). Afrocentric tokens: Afrocentric methodology in rhetorical analysis. Howard Journal of Communication, 8 (1), 1-14.

Blyden, E. W. (1857). Vindication of the Negro race. Monrovia: G. Killian.

Blyden, E. W. (1861). Hope for Africa. Africa Repository, pp. 258-271.

Blyden, E. W. (1862). The call of providence to descendants of Africa in America. In E. W. Blyden , Liberia's offering (pp. 67-91). New York: J. A. Gray.

Blyden, E. W. (1887). Christianity, Islam and the Negro race. Edinburgh: The University Press.

Diop, C. A. (1962). The cultural unity of Negro Africa; the domain of patriarchy and of matriarchy in classical antiquity. Paris: Presence Africaine.

Garvey, M. (1963). The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey. New York: Atheneum.

Hodgkin, T. (1957). Nationalism in colonial Africa. New York: New York University Press.

Holden, E. (1967). Blyden of Liberia. New York: Vantage Press.

10.

Lynch, H. R. (1967). Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro patriot. London: Oxford University Press.

11.

Meier, A. (1963). Negro thought in America: 1880-1915.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

12.

Milne, J. (1990). Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry years. London: PANAF.

13.

New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) . (2001). New partnership for Africa's development, Abuja 2001. Johannesburg, South Africa: Author.

14.

Nkrumah, K. (1957). The autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons.

15.

Nkrumah, K. (1964). Consciencism. New York: Monthly Review Press.

16.

Nkrumah, K. (1968). The spectre of Black power. London: Panaf Books Limited.

17.

San Martin, P. (2002). A discursive reading of the emergence of Asturian nationalist ideology. Journal of Political Ideologies, 7 (1), 97-116.

18.

Staudenraus, P. J. (1961). The African colonization movement: 1816-1864.New York: Columbia University Press.

19.

Walker, D. (1830). Walker's appeal, in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America, written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September, 28, 1829. Boston: Author.

20.

Walters, R. W. (1993). Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An analysis of modern Afrocentric political movements. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

An African Nationalist Ideology Framed in Diaspora and the Development Quagmire

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References