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Is Pan-Africanism Dead?: The Relevancy of Garveyism in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Black Self-Determination in the Southeastern United States

Lumumba, Bakari K.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1110-9963
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1526039138419958

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, African Studies (International Studies).
Since the 1960s, Pan-Africanism has steadily lost its currency amongst leaders and citizens in the African continent and throughout the African Diaspora. During the past fifty years, Pan-Africanism has suffered a series of seemingly insurmountable setbacks, including the assassinations of prominent activists and statesmen such as Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Malcolm X, and Thomas Sankara to name a few. Furthermore, Pan-Africanism flagship organization the African Union (AU) has had its fair share of challenges, and criticism leading its detractors to call it a “toothless bulldog.” Additionally, the growing disillusionment amongst Africans in the continent and throughout the Diaspora towards an ideology that has promised so much but delivered so little has caused Pan-Africanism to be seen as an antiquated model of resistance to global white hegemony. This stance has also caused many to question the efficacy of the philosophies and opinions of Marcus Garvey in the age of globalization, in which the forms of oppression African people face have evolved through sophisticated social structures that produce contradictory forms of consciousness. Moreover, the pessimistic undercurrent toward Pan-Africanism that permeates the African world leads one to ask the question, is Pan-Africanism dead?
Loren Lybarger (Committee Chair)
Robin Muhammad (Committee Member)
Akil Houston (Committee Member)
84 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; African Studies; Political Science
Marcus Garvey; Pan-Africanism; Twenty-first Century

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  • Lumumba, B. K. (2018). Is Pan-Africanism Dead?: The Relevancy of Garveyism in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Black Self-Determination in the Southeastern United States [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1526039138419958

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  • Lumumba, Bakari. Is Pan-Africanism Dead?: The Relevancy of Garveyism in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Black Self-Determination in the Southeastern United States . 2018. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1526039138419958.

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  • Lumumba, Bakari. "Is Pan-Africanism Dead?: The Relevancy of Garveyism in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Black Self-Determination in the Southeastern United States ." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1526039138419958

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