Pan-Africanism as Progressive Panacea: Retooling the Visions of Revolutionary “Positive Action,” Ujamaa, and Ubuntu
Matt Meyer
Vol 10, Issue 1 · pp. 105–117 · 2024 · DOI https://doi.org/10.63961/2025.195
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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.
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