Pan-Africanism as Progressive Panacea: Retooling the Visions of Revolutionary “Positive Action,” Ujamaa, and Ubuntu

Excerpt: In the 75 years or so since Kwame Nkrumah wrote the influential essay ‘What I Mean by Positive Action,’ social movement theorists and historians of civil resistance alike have pointed to this key text as evidence of the leading 20th century Pan-Africanist’s interest in and possible commitment to nonviolence.