Essays about: "pan-Africanism"

Found 5 essays containing the word pan-Africanism.

1. 1. Digesting the Pan-African Failure and the Role of African Psychology : Fanonian understanding of the Pan-African failure in establishing oneness and ending disunity/xenophobia in South Africa

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Aisha Mohamed; [2021]
   Keywords : Gradual Pan-Africanism; Radical Pan-Africanism; Collective-unconsciousness; Abandonment-neurotic; Black-Consciousness; Political unity; Neo-colonialism; Otherness; Mimicry; Subaltern.;

   Abstract : The study insists on understanding the miscarriage of “Pan-Africanism” and the role of “African” mentality with the help of Fanon’s psychoanalysis “Black Skin, White Mask,” exemplifying the immense colonial, slavery, and apartheid psychological damages experienced by Black individuals resulting Blacks/Africans self-hate and a desire to be “white” throughout the domain of Western culture, ideology, and language. To provide accurate analysis of the “Pan-African” failure to solve increasing blacks-hate-against-blacks/xenophobia in South Africa, concepts othering, mimicry, subaltern from the critical theory (postcolonialism) were applied. READ MORE

3. 2. The Neo-Colonial Europeanization of Africa : A post-developmental perspective on the communication of the AU-EU Partnership

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Angela Brouwers; Elsa Le Ber; [2020]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Despite the declared end of colonization and the successive obtention of independence by African countries in the 1960s, this thesis argues that the African continent is still faced with neo-colonial practices. Deriving from post-development theory, this thesis analyzes how the Western development discourse is manifested in modern-day North-South relations. READ MORE

4. 3. Do the objectives of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 aspirations harmonize with a Pan-African and African Renaissance vision? – A critical review.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Haddy Njie; [2019]
   Keywords : Agenda 2063; Pan Africanism; African Renaissance; Integration; African policies; African Union; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Pan-Africanism is a diverse philosophy and political ideology that has conflicting views about how unity among Africans can be achieved economically and within a single political system. Some versions of Pan-Africanism support market capitalism and other theorists take the position that the collective ownership of capital and resources is essential for creating a national unity. READ MORE

5. 4. Constructing the Rainbow Nation : Migration and national identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Arvid Anagrius; [2017]
   Keywords : Migration; South Africa; Nationalism; National Identity; Discource analysis;

   Abstract : Post-Apartheid South Africa has seen xenophobic sentiments towards migrants increase, culminating in several deadly riots. The words of equality and diversity, nurtured during the fight for independence seem to be far away. READ MORE

6. 5. A study of pan-African ideas of a collective identity in Africa

   University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

   Author : Anna Gabrielsson; [2011]
   Keywords : African Union; pan-Africanism; identity; Africa; regional identity; social;

   Abstract : The intention of this paper has been to look at how pan-African ideas about a common identity hav e been expressed and developed on the African continent since the period of decolonisation in the 1960s. By using social constructivist identity-theory I have looked at how identity can be constructed by the use of myths, stories, symbols and ‘othering’. READ MORE