Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance

Kini-Yen Kinni

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This Book is the outcome of a long project begun thirty years ago. It is a book on the makings of pan-Africanism through the predicaments of being black in a world dominated by being white. The book is a tribute and celebration of the efforts of the African-American and African-Caribbean Diaspora who took the initiative and the audacity to fight and liberate themselves from the shackles of slavery. It is also a celebration of those Africans who in their own way carried the torch of inspiration and resilience to save and reconstruct the Free Humanism of Africa. As a story of the rise from the shackles of slavery and poverty to the summit of Victors of their Renaissance Identity and Self-Determination as a People, the book is the story of African refusal to celebrate victimhood. The book also situates women as central actors in the Pan-African project, which is often presented as an exclusively masculine endeavour. It introduces a balanced gender approach and diagnosis of the Women actors of Pan-Africanism which was very much lacking. The problem of balkanisation of Africa on post-colonial affiliations and colonial linguistic lines has taken its toll on Africa's building of its common identity and personality. The result is that Africans are more remote to each other in their pigeon-hole-nation-states which put more restrictions for African inter-mobility, coupled by education and cultural affiliations, the communication and transportation and trading networks which are still tied more to their colonial masters than among themselves. This book looks into the problem of the new wave of Pan-Africanism and what strategies that can be proposed for a more participatory Pan-Africanism inspired by the everyday realities of African masses at home and in the diaspora. This book is the first book of its kind that gives a comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of Pan-Africanism. It is a very timely and vital compendium.

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• African Studies

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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 04 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9789956762651
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 47 Mo

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Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni
PAN-AFRICANISM
PAN-AFRICANISM
This Book is the outcome of a long project begun thirty years ago. It is a book on
the makings of pan-Africanism through the predicaments of being black in a world Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic
dominated by being white. The book is a tribute and celebration of the efforts of Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance
the African-American and African-Caribbean Diaspora who took the initiative and
the audacity to fight and liberate themselves from the shackles of slavery. It is also * * *
a celebration of those Africans who in their own way carried the torch of inspiration
Caribbean and African American Contributions and resilience to save and reconstruct the Free Humanism of Africa. As a story of
the rise from the shackles of slavery and poverty to the summit of Victors of their (VOLUME ONE)
Renaissance Identity and Self-Determination as a People, the book is the story of
African refusal to celebrate victimhood. The book also situates women as central
Fongot Kini-Yen Kinniactors in the Pan-African project, which is often presented as an exclusively masculine
endeavour. It introduces a balanced gender approach and diagnosis of the Women
actors of Pan-Africanism which was very much lacking. The problem of balkanisation
of Africa on post-colonial affiliations and colonial linguistic lines has taken its toll on
Africa’s building of its common identity and personality. The result is that Africans
are more remote to each other in their pigeon-hole-nation-states which put more Political Philosophy and
restrictions for African inter-mobility, coupled by education and cultural affiliations, Socio-Economic
Anthropology for African the communication and transportation and trading networks which are still tied more
Liberation and Governanceto their colonial masters than among themselves. This book looks into the problem
Caribbean and African of the new wave of Pan-Africanism and what strategies that can be proposed for a
American Contributions
more participatory Pan-Africanism inspired by the everyday realities of African (VOLUME ONE)
masses at home and in the diaspora. This book is the first book of its kind that gives a
comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of Pan-Africanism. It is a very timely
and vital compendium.
DR FONGOT KINI-YEN KINNI is Dean of the Faculty of Law and Deputy
Vice Chancellor in charge of Research and Cooperation, Bamenda University of
Science and Technology – BUST, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon. He is a
prolific researcher, writer, designer, artist, musician, philosopher and poet, who has
travelled widely in Africa and the world.
Langaa Research & Publishing
Common Initiative Group
P.O. Box 902 Mankon
Bamenda
North West Region
Cameroon

PAN-AFRICANISM
Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic
Anthropology for African Liberation and
Governance:
Caribbean and African American
Contributions
(Volume One)





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About the Author


Dr Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni is Dean of the Faculty of Law and Deputy Vice
Chancellor in charge of Research and Cooperation, Bamenda University of
Science and Technology – BUST, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon.
He is a prolific researcher, writer, designer, artist, musician, philosopher and
poet, who has travelled widely in Africa and the world.
As the Cross-Cultural Coordinator and Trainer of the United States of
America Peace Corps Volunteer Programme in Cameroon; he was nicknamed
the “renaissance man” by some of his American Peace Corps friends who
enjoyed him as a poet, a musician, a creative artist, designer, producer and a
writer who, apart from French, Italian, German and English, he could also
express himself in his mother-tongue “Mùngáàkà” and his father-tongue
“Tángíkóm” and also in Pidgin the Creole language of West Africa.
His academic prowess is what has marvelled his friends who used to call
him the “professional student”: with a BA in Philosophy, a BA in Theology
and MA in Philosophy and Theology from the Pontifical Urbanianan
University of Rome after eight years of study, as well as a BSc in the Social
Sciences from the International University of Social Sciences Pro Deo, Rome;
an MSc in Anthropology with specialisation in Industrial Anthropology, from
the University of Paris V Rene Descartes Sorbonne; an MA in History with
specialisation in Economic History, and a PhD in Anthropology from the
University of Paris VII Jussieu; an MSc in Political Science, with specialisation
in International Relations, an LLM in International Law with specialisation in
Comparative International and African Law and a PhD in Political Science
from the University of Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Homecoming to Cameroon after 26 years of study, research and travel all
over Europe, and Latin America where he researched in social change in a
Project for the Reforestation of the Andean countries - Columbia, Ecuador
Brazil and Peru – PREDESU, under the supervision of the Director of the
Bank of America for Development; and acquiring more Anthropological
knowledge and insights in the cross-cultural miscegenation of the migrant with
the native peoples and cultures of Latin America of the Pacific Coast, decided
to restudy and redefine Africa.
He was able to appreciate first-hand the forensic dynamic archaeology of
the peoples and cultures of the First Nation People (Native Indians) of the
Maya of Columbia, the Ketchua and the Guarani of Ecuador and Brazil, the
Inca of Ecuador and Peru with the Blacks and Europeans who have
contributed to what he identified as “The Chocolate-Black-and Coloured
Coast” of the Latin American Pacific Coast line which made him to call it the
“Pacific Africa.”. He also honed his research talents when he worked for
several years as a research assistant at the French National Centre for Scientific
Research – CRNS - at the Laboratory of Legal, Political and Economic
Anthropology of the University of Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne and became one of the privileged alumni who rigorously attended the Levy-Strauss
Conferences at College De France by the Sorbonne.
Back in Cameroon he plunged into fundamental research in various topic
areas including development studies, conflict and peace-building in Africa, Art,
Heritage Management and Public History. He now owns one of the largest Art
and Anthropological Museums in Africa with over two thousand African Art
Objects and Artefacts, with some dating up to two and three hundred years
old. He has taught at several State Universities in Cameroon; and since 2004
has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Aalto University School of Economics and
Business of Helsinki, Finland. Since last year he was recruited to teach Pan
Africanism at the newly created branch in Cameroon of the Pan African
University by The Afrin Union with Head Quarters at Addis Ababa. Table of Contents


Acknowledgement…………………………………………………... v
Prologue……………… xv
Introduction…………………………………………………………. xv
Glossary of Acronyms……………………………………………….. xxxv

Chapter 1: The Racist American Dream and Renaissance
of African-American Awareness…………………………………… 1


Chapter 2: The Launching of the First Pan-African Congress
and the Subsequent Pan-African Congresses by
African-American Men Actors……………………………………… 177


Chapter 3: Gender Consciousness and Pro-Agency:
Black Women Feminist Suffragettes And Civil Rights
Activists In The U.S.A., The Caribbean And Africa
In the Spread Of Pan Africanism…………………………………... 503


References/Bibliography…………………………………………… 867

iiiivAcknowledgement


My acknowledgement goes to Professor Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch who
was not only my teacher in economic history of Africa, but also the supervisor
of my M.A. thesis in History, who inspired and spurred me on to undertake
this research on Pan-Africanism. Her insights and stimulus on methodology
with regards to historiography and the applied Marxist approach of the
material history and foundations of socio-economic modes of production of
human societies gave me the strong foundation of my research approac