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Blyden (Edward Wilmot) and Africanism in America

Essay by Dr. Eluemuno-Chukuemeka R. Blyden, the great-grandson of Blyden. It is an "introduction to Blyden's Africanist ideas and his vision of the role of African Americans in the future of Africa."  "...given at the 1992 Pan African Congress of North America held in Savannah, Georgia, USA."  Includes a biographical outline and bibliography. [KF] http://www.columbia.edu/~hcb8/EWB_Museum/Dedication.html

British Broadcasting Company. The Story of Africa

"the history of the continent from an African perspective." "from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid" by major African historians (Jacob Ajayi, George Abungu, Director-General of the National Museums of Kenya and others). Includes audio of each segment of the BBC program. (Requires sound card, speaker or headphone). Each segment has a timeline, bibliography, useful links. Includes history of the Pan African Congresses. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/

Brown, Haines - World History Archives

Has three items from the 1990s on Pan-Africanism. Maintained by Dr. Brown, emeritus history professor, Central Connecticut State.  http://www.hartford hwp.com/archives/index.html

Clarke, John Henrik

Cornell University. John Henrik Clarke Africana Library - has a biography, bibliography of his works, and essay. http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Library/Clarke.html

Digital Memorial - http://www.sheps.com/ancestors/memorials/

Creation of the OAU (Organization of African Unity) - Makonnen Ketema

Account by Makonnen Ketema whose father, the late Ketema Yifru, was former foreign minister of Ethiopia and closely involved in the OAU's creation. Includes a biography and photographs of K. Yifru. Also photographs of Kwame Nkrumah, Modibo Kieta of Mali, Seku Toure of Guinea, Emperor Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, William Tubman, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Diallo Telli, Tafewa Balewa, Salim Ahmed Salim and others. http://www.oau-creation.com

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. "The Souls of Black Folk; Essays and Sketches" (1903)

Project Gutenberg provides the full-text of the book. ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext96/soulb10.txt

DuBois, W. E. B.

A biography of DuBois and the full text of The Souls of Black Folks (1903). From Bartleby.com. http://www.bartleby.com/people/DuBois-W.html

DuBois, W. E. B. - African American Almanac Biography

DuBois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Biography from The African American Almanac, 7th ed., Gale, 1997. http://www.gale.com/freresrc/blkhstry/bio/duboisw.htm

Encyclopaedia Africana - Ghana

Gives a history of the project "information on W.E.B. Du Bois' dream of an all-African Encyclopaedia Africana. The publishing of these volumes began in 1962--one year before Du Bois' death--in Accra Ghana, and continues today under the direction of Grace Bansa, Secretariat to the Encyclopaedia Africana Project (EAP)." Three volumes have been published; information on ordering is provided. Site architect is Prema Qadir. http://www.endarkenment.com/eap/

Garvey - Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project

This is the web site for the project, directed by Robert A. Hill, at the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA. Has the text of the book jackets, the introductions and sample documents for the African series, 1913-1945, American series, and Caribbean series. Has photos and, for those with multimedia computers, sound files of two speeches by Garvey, the only known recordings of his voice.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/mgpp/

Garvey - Benin Fabric Depiction

A Benin fabric panel honoring the 1987 centennial of Marcus Garvey's birth which depicts Garvey as politician, scholar, admiral is used to illustrate a conference, Prophets, Visionaries and their Publics in the Afro-Atlantic World, October 9-10, 1998, at the University of Maryland. http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Prophets

H-Afro-Am

A moderated discussion list for African American Studies "(also called Afrocentricity, Africology, Africana Studies, Afro-American Studies, Black Studies, and Pan-African Studies)." H-AFRO-AM is owned by H-Net. To subscribe, send email to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu
In the Message area write: sub h-afro-am firstname lastname, institution
Example: sub h-afro-am Jane Doe, U of Pennsylvania

Halsall, Paul - Internet African History Sourcebook

Has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes the Black Athena Debate, Nkrumah, and many other historical topics. Maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

Henry Sylvester Williams. Pan-African conference. 7th-12th January 2001

Conference at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, in commemoration of the First Pan-African Conference organized by Henry Sylvester Williams of Trinidad and Tobago in London, England, in July 1900. http://www.crosswinds.net/~uwiconference/index.html

[King] Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958 contains an interview by Etta Moten Barnett with King, 6 March 1957 in Accra, Ghana after the midnight independence celebration, in which King discusses Ghana's independence and "its worldwide implications and repercussions." Has King's sermon,7 April 1957 in Montgomery, Alabama, "The Birth of a New Nation" (16 p.) on the Gold Coast / Ghana history, his experience at the Independence ceremony, and on Kwame Nkrumah. There is a one page letter to Richard M. Nixon, 15 May 1957, referring to their meeting at Ghana's independence celebration. The Chronology for Vol. IV records King's visit to Ghana and West Africa March 1957. The Project is located at Stanford University. [KF] http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

Nkrumah Infosite

A biography, bibliography of books on Nkrumah, photographs, audio clips. Designed by Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli for R4R productions. http://www.nkrumah.net/indexes/z1.html

Pan African Movement (Kampala)

Articles, statements, letters by Horace Campbell, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (the General-Secretary of the PAM), and others on Congo-Kinshasa, Angola, Nigeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan-Africanism, Clinton's Africa trip, etc.. Based in Kampala, Uganda.  http://www.prairienet.org/acas/panafrican.html

Pan African Political and Organizational Information

Documents, links to Pan-African sites. Includes Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, etc. Maintained by Art McGee. http://www.panafrican.org/panafrican/

 

Ture, Kwame - Stokely Carmichael

Site about the African-American civil rights leader who lived much of his life in Guinea. http://www.interchange.org/KwameTure/

See also: "Kwame Ture (In His Words): a Selective Bibliography, by Dorothy Ann Washington. http://www.purdue.edu/bcc/library/ture.htm

"Kwame Turé: Tribute to a Departed Pan-Africanist" by Prof. Tony Martin. http://www.usafricaonline.com/KwameTure.html

 

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