Decolonizing Africa and African Development: The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge

The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankaras challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumbas call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africas underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the Pan-African movement, it argues for the revival of Pan-Africanism as a force for change and calls for a worthy successor to the Fifth Pan-African Congress.

As a background to this argument and call, the book revisits Pan-Africanisms history and founding ideals and conducts ruthless forensic examinations of the de facto Bantustanization of much of Africa and parts of the Caribbean, the alternative development fiascos of the late twentieth century, the contemporary globalization and democratization of African projects by imperialist interests, the Pan-Africanisms of imperialisms active collaborators and other obstructions to the decolonization of Africa and African development.

Finally, recognizing that the plights of many Afro-Latinos, Afro-Indians, Afro-Arabs and other lost or neglected tribes of Africa as well as those of the victims of black-empowered predators call out for urgent Pan-Africanist responses, the book contains numerous start-up project ideas for action-oriented Pan-Africanists.