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Hajj Humanitarianism

This article explores how pilgrimage to Arabia became the catalyst for Northern Nigerian Muslim leaders to develop a kind of humanitarianism for the poor to expand their political power in the era of independence from Britain and postcolonial Afro-Arab alliance-making. Muslim elites forced the British to provide welfare for poor pilgrims who conducted the pilgrimage over land through Sudan and then undertook their own relief and reform as means to resist national integration with Southern Nigeria and bolster their reputation and influence in the Muslim world. Muslim West Africans did not simply side with Sudanese or Saudi Arabian officials in the matter of hajj but instead critiqued Arab racism and enslavement of Africans while also playing on British and American fears of communism in Africa and attempts to use Islam and religious discourse more broadly to create alliances with Muslim Nigerians. Hajj humanitarianism reveals careful Nigerian negotiations of global politics during the Cold War and non-Western involvement in international humanitarianism, which has been treated as a largely Euro-American phenomenon.

Africa's 'agitators': militant anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939

The period between the two World Wars were troubling years for colonial empire. Individuals and organizations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to anticolonial activity not only in Africa but the United States and Europe as well. In this compelling history, Jonathan Derrick recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised both by Africans living on the continent and by European anticolonialists and members of the Black Diaspora. He covers campaigns waged by an early incarnation of the ANC and other groups in South Africa who fought against legal and other aspects of white minority rule. He also analyses the Kikuyu protests against the settler regime in Kenya; Marcus Garvey's African American movement and its role in sparking interest in Africa; the Etoile Nord Africaine, formed mainly by Algerians in France, that called for the independence of French North Africa; protests led by European critics against forced labor in Kenya and French Equatorial Africa; and the activity of small militant groups like the Ligue de Defense de la Race Negre (LDRN) in France and George Padmore's International African Service Bureau (IASB) in Britain. Derrick also examines the role of the Comintern and Western Communist parties that were opposed to Western colonialism and ready to support militant action against it. He shows that, although colonial rulers greatly feared the specter of Communism in Africa, actual Communist activity was in fact quite small. The onset of the Second World War pushed colonial issues to the background, but as Derrick argues, in the long term the anticolonialists of the interwar era helped pave the way for later decolonisation.

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa. Edited by David E. Albright. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1980. x, 277 pp. $12.95.

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Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa. Edited by David E. Albright. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp. viii + 277. $12.95.)

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Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Communism in Africa

Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision, African Outline and Communism in Africa

Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision, African Outline and Communism in Africa

Africa's Red Harvest

Journal Article Africa's Red Harvest Get access Africa's Red Harvest An Account of Communism in Africa. Pieter Lessing. Michael Joseph. 21s. Eva L. R. Meyerowitz Eva L. R. Meyerowitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 250, January 1964, Pages 68–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095174 Published: 01 January 1964

RELIGION AND COMMUNISM IN AFRICA

The Heythrop JournalVolume 3, Issue 3 p. 219-231 RELIGION AND COMMUNISM IN AFRICA WALTER KOLARZ, WALTER KOLARZSearch for more papers by this author WALTER KOLARZ, WALTER KOLARZSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1962 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.1962.tb00292.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume3, Issue3July 1962Pages 219-231 RelatedInformation

The Impact of Communism on West Africa

N event which took place far away from the African continent, in Moscow, may best serve as an introduction to the subject of World Communism and Africa. This event was the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union last October, which enabled observers to obtain within a fortnight a picture of the Communist movement all over the globe, and therefore also to gain an insight into the strength and the political attitude of organized Communism in Africa. The congress confirmed that the world Communist movement can count in Africa only on a most insignificant contingent. Out of the 40 million Communists scattered over the five continents only about 50,ooo are in Africa. This tiny number of African Communists must be d'ivided up among six parties which at present are recognized by the leaders of world Communism. Of these parties four-those of the Sudan and the three Maghreb countriesoperate in the Arab North of the continent, while two work at its southern periphery in the Republic of South Africa and the small island territory of Reunion. In addition there is the dubious case of Egyptian Communism. The Communistpress frequently reports on the persecution in Egypt of individual Communists and even groups of Communists, but no representative of an Egyptian Communist Party has ever appeared at a more recent international Communist gathering. This absence may be due to the lack of unity within the Egyptian Communist movement, which is notoriously divided into various groups and factions. A Communist Party also exists in Madagascar; it was founded as recently as March i960, and although it has established contact with Moscow it has not yet been granted international Communist recognition. As far as the recognized Communist Parties of Africa are concerned, only two-those of Tunisia and Reunion-have a legal existence. The other four are subject to various forms of illegality and exposed to various degrees of political oppression. In view of the difficult position in which these African Communist Parties find themselves, it was generally believed that the African Communists prefer the Chinese recipe of violent revolutionary struggle to Mr Khrushchev's concept of legal and parliamentary roads to socialism, which they must find inapplicable to their own conditions. The 22nd Soviet Party Congress introduced an important correction I56

Communism and Nationalism in Tropical Africa

A LMOST overnight Communism in Africa has become an / international problem of the first magnitude. Ten years * ago, or even five, all that was known, or needed to be known, about the subject could be stated in two or three sen tences mainly of a negative character. Now, in 1961, Africa has replaced the Middle East as the world's chief trouble center, and it is likely to remain the main area of contest between West and East for many years to come. On the African continent the So viet bloc and China have succeeded in gaining important foot holds within a very short space of time. The Communist states are represented in most of the newly independent countries and their envoys are untiring in their exertions. There is a constant stream of cultural and trade missions and other visitors between Moscow, Peking and some African capitals. These activities un doubtedly constitute a serious challenge to the West; but even more important are the efforts of local pro-Communist or na tional Communist groups to gain the upper hand in the struggle for the future of Africa; one can hardly exaggerate the implica tions of the outcome of this struggle. Discussion of the problems facing Communism in tropical Africa (meaning Africa south of the Sahara excluding the Union of South Africa) is frequently hampered by the absence of relia ble facts. To give but one example: On August 2, i960, the exist ence of a Congolese Communist party, with a central committee headed by M. Mwamba-Mukanya, was announced in Leopold ville; it was said to have been in existence for the past decade. This was the first and the last to be heard about this party and its central committee. Shortly afterwards M. Mwamba-Mukanya was introduced to the Soviet public as no more than a Congolese public figure; his party had apparently vanished into thin air. It would be unwise to assume that such practices are designed merely to confuse the outside observer. There are good reasons to believe that Russian, Chinese and other Communists are at least as bewildered as everybody else by the frequent upheavals and the changing allegiances on the African scene. But it is hardly less difficult to arrive at a realistic appraisal