Table of Contents
Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Early Visions of Independence
Introduction
1. Samuel Crowther – Letter to the Secretaries of the Church Missionary Society, 1841
2. James Africanus Horton – Advice to the Rising Generation in West Africa, 1868
3. The Fante Confederation Constitution, 1871
4. Edward Blyden – The Origin and Purpose of Colonization, 1881
5. W.E.B. Du Bois – To the Nations of the World, 1900
6. Mojola Agbebi – The West African Problem, 1911
7. J.E. Casely Hayford – Race Emancipation – Particular Considerations: African Nationality, 1911
8. Marcus Garvey – If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul, 1921
Part Two: Paths to Independence
Introduction
9. The Fifth Pan-African Congress – Resolutions, 1945
10. Jomo Kenyatta – Speech at the Kenya African Union, 1952
11. George Padmore – Communism and Black Nationalism, 1956
12. Félix Houphouet-Boigny – French Africa and the French Union, 1957
13. Charles de Gaulle – The Franco-African Community, 1958
14. The All-African People’s Conference – Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, 1958
15. Bibi Titi Mohammed – “Travel for TANU”: Interview, 1958
16. Sekou Touré - The Political Leader Considered as the Representative of a Culture, 1959
17. Gamal Abdel Nasser – The Philosophy of the Revolution, 1959
18. Harold Macmillan – Wind of Change, 1960
19. Henrik Verwoerd – Response to Macmillan
20. Patrice Lumumba – Two Speeches, 1960
21. The United Nations – Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960
22. K.A. Busia – The Challenge of Nationalism, 1962
Part Three: Independence Struggles
Introduction
23. Karari Njama – Reflections on the Mau Mau Oath, 1952
24. Albert Luthuli – The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross, 1952
25. The Algerian National Liberation Front – Proclamation of the FLN, 1954
26. The Federation of South African Women – The Women’s Charter, 1954
27. The South African Congress of the People – The Freedom Charter, 1955
28. The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, 1956
29. Ndabaningi Sithole – White Supremacy and African Nationalism, 1959
30. Nelson Mandela – I am Prepared to Die, 1964
31. Ian Smith – Announcement of Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1965
32. Harold Wilson – Position of the British Government on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Rhodesia, 1965
33. Amilcar Cabral – The Weapon of Theory, 1966
34. Andimba Toivo ya Toivo - Freedom for Namibia, 1968
35. Emeka Ojukwu – The Ahiara Declaration, 1969
36. Eduardo Mondlane – The Struggle for Independence in Mozambique, 1969
Part Four: Legitimating Independence
Introduction
37. Kwame Nkrumah – I Speak of Freedom, 1961
38. Tom Mboya – Tensions in African Development, 1961
39. Kabaka Mutesa II – Decision to Co-operate with Uganda, 1961
40. Sir Ahmadu Bello – Regional Government, 1962
41. Julius Nyerere – Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism, 1962
42. Organization of African Unity – Founding Charter, 1963
43. Haile Selassie I – A Call to African Leaders, 1963
44. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa – Addis Ababa, 1963
45. Nnamdi Azikiwe – Tribalism: A Pragmatic Instrument for National Unity, 1964
46. Jomo Kenyatta – A One Party System, 1964
47. Léopold Sédar Senghor – African Socialist Humanism, 1964
48. Kwame Nkrumah – Consciencism, 1964
49. Kanyama Chiume and Ex-Malawian Ministers – Appeal to the U.N. and O.A.U.
50. J.B. Danquah – Letter from Prison to Kwame Nkrumah, 1964
51. Vera Chirwa – Origins of the Cabinet Crisis, 1964
52. Obafemi Awolowo – Thoughts on Nigerian Constitution, 1966
53. Kenneth Kaunda – African Development and Foreign Aid, 1966
54. The Tanganyika African National Union – The Arusha Declaration: On the Policy of Self-Reliance in Tanzania, 1967