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Hakim Adi – LESETOUR: Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939
In Kooperation mit dem Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt Universität Berlin, der Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies und dem Arbeitskreis Panafrikanismus München präsentiert die WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN eine bundesweite Lesetour mit dem Autor und Geschichtsprofessor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester / England). Er stellt in Deutschland sein aktuelles Buch „Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939“ vor und zeichnet nach, wie die internationale Vernetzung afrikanischer und afro-diasporischer Kommunist_innen u.a. auch ihre Zentren in Hamburg und Berlin fanden .
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This book examines the interaction between the Communist International (Comintern) and the global struggle for the liberation of Africa and the African Diaspora during the inter-war period. In particular, it focuses on the history of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW), established by the Red International of Labour Unions (Profintern) in 1928 and its activities in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean and Europe.
Drawing on the Moscow archives of the Communist International, archival material from Africa, the United States, Britain and France, as well as other recently published sources, it also examines the evolution and development of the Comintern’s approach to the “Negro Question,” as issues related to Africa and the Diaspora were then called, an approach that played a pivotal role in the evolution of Pan-Africanism and anti-colonial and anti-racist politics during this period.
The book builds on earlier studies of the relationship between the Comintern and African Americans, as well as work on the history of the Communist Party of South Africa, to examine how and why a Pan-Africanist approach was adopted by the Comintern in relation to Africa and the African Diaspora and highlights the agency of African, African American and Caribbean activists in determining and implementing this approach.
It was in this period that many well-known activists and personalities, including Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay, Jacques Roumain, Jomo Kenyatta, Isaac Wallace-Johnson and George Padmore, embraced or were connected with the communist movement, while many others expressed a great sympathy for the Soviet Union. This relationship was established not just because of the prestige that the Soviet Union enjoyed at the time but also because the approach of the Comintern and the activities of the ITUCNW strongly suggested that the communist movement was perhaps the only international movement formally dedicated to a revolutionary transformation of the global political and racial order.
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Hakim Adi (Ph.D. SOAS, London University) is currently professor in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester in England. He is the author of West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (London, 1998); joint author (with M. Sherwood) of The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (London, 1995) and Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (London, 2003).
He has written widely on Pan-Africanism and the modern political history of the African Diaspora, especially on Africans in Britain and has also written three books for children. He is currently working on a film documentary on the West African Students’ Unionwww.wasuproject.org.uk. His latest book Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 was published by Africa World Press in 2013
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