The Africa Institute hosts 'Global Ghana: Sites of Departure/Sites of Return', the second edition of its ‘country-focused season’-an annual initiative exploring one African country or African diaspora community through a range of scholarly and public programs.
About the Panel Discussion:
Ghana’s independence in 1957 was a transformative moment for Pan-Africanism. The global movement that sought to unite the past, present, and futures of African and Africa-descended peoples found a welcoming home in the new nation and a powerful proponent in its first prime minister and president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. But as Nkrumah sought to build the United States of Africa, as part and parcel of that Pan African vision, the movement faced a range of divisions, some longstanding and some specific to the geopolitics of a Cold War world. This panel explores Pan-Africanism across the divides - political, geographic, and gendered - from Ghana’s independence to the present.
Panelists:
Hakim Adi, Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora, University of Chichester, UK
Robert Vinson, Director, The Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, USA
Takyiwaa Manuh, Professor Emerita, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
Mjiba Frehiwot, Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
Moderator:
Jean Allman, History Professor, The Africa Institute and Professor, African and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
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