Building the African Nation The African Association and Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa
Book contents
- Building the African Nation
- African Identities: Past and Present
- Building the African Nation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Usage
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ethiopianism, Redemptive Pan-Africanism, and the African Nation in the Thought of James Aggrey
- 2 Local and Regional Influences in Creating a Pan-African Political Program
- 3 Building the African Nation
- 4 African Identity and Practical Pan-Africanism in the African Association
- 5 African Identity and Practical Pan-Africanism among the Women of the African Association
- 6 Competing Nationalisms and Shifting Loyalties
- 7 Uafrika na Umoja
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Ethiopianism, Redemptive Pan-Africanism, and the African Nation in the Thought of James Aggrey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2025
Book contents
- Building the African Nation
- African Identities: Past and Present
- Building the African Nation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Usage
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ethiopianism, Redemptive Pan-Africanism, and the African Nation in the Thought of James Aggrey
- 2 Local and Regional Influences in Creating a Pan-African Political Program
- 3 Building the African Nation
- 4 African Identity and Practical Pan-Africanism in the African Association
- 5 African Identity and Practical Pan-Africanism among the Women of the African Association
- 6 Competing Nationalisms and Shifting Loyalties
- 7 Uafrika na Umoja
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
James Aggrey was the most influential pan-Africanist in the Anglophone African world in the 1920s and was the single greatest influence on the early leaders of the African Association (AA). This chapter does a deep dive into Aggrey’s intellectual biography and his connection to the AA to argue that Aggrey transmitted Ethiopianist ideas to East Africans. It carefully examines the life of this remarkable global African intellectual by investigating the Gold Coast political milieu of his youth, his educational formation in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church in the American South, and his time in New York at Columbia and as a member of the Negro Society for Historical Research. It argues that Aggrey helped directly tie East Africans in the 1920s into a network of black thought that shaped their understanding of African identity and their role in the continent’s past and future, inspiring some of them to become redemptive pan-Africanists.
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- Building the African NationThe African Association and Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa, pp. 39 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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