Manchester University Press
4 ‘A constant stream’
Abstract
George Padmore saw 'trusteeship' as a concept invoked as far back as the late nineteenth-century conferences that divided up Africa. Padmore interviewed Yagoub Osman for the Socialist Leader and the Crisis and sent an article to his friend Ivar Holmes in Norway with the hope that it could be published there. In Africa: Britain's Third Empire, probably already underway at this point, he wrote at length about the Sudanese situation, offering an analysis more complex than his journalistic reports. Pan-Africa, a monthly periodical T. Ras Makonnen put out, reported that Richard Wright urged his listeners to form an international network of 'cultured progressives'. Although part of the Pan-African Federation, West African National Secretariat (WANS) had its origins in a desire to move beyond what its organisers saw as the moderate declarations of the Pan-African Congress and actually seize power in Africa.
Abstract
George Padmore saw 'trusteeship' as a concept invoked as far back as the late nineteenth-century conferences that divided up Africa. Padmore interviewed Yagoub Osman for the Socialist Leader and the Crisis and sent an article to his friend Ivar Holmes in Norway with the hope that it could be published there. In Africa: Britain's Third Empire, probably already underway at this point, he wrote at length about the Sudanese situation, offering an analysis more complex than his journalistic reports. Pan-Africa, a monthly periodical T. Ras Makonnen put out, reported that Richard Wright urged his listeners to form an international network of 'cultured progressives'. Although part of the Pan-African Federation, West African National Secretariat (WANS) had its origins in a desire to move beyond what its organisers saw as the moderate declarations of the Pan-African Congress and actually seize power in Africa.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- General editor’s introduction ix
- Preface xi
- List of abbreviations xviii
- 1 ‘Misery laid bare’ 1
- 2 ‘Generals without an army’ 23
- 3 Writing while the bombs fall 53
- 4 ‘A constant stream’ 75
- 5 Strategist, publicist 96
- 6 Acts of betrayal 118
- 7 Their own histories 145
- Select bibliography 175
- Index 181
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- General editor’s introduction ix
- Preface xi
- List of abbreviations xviii
- 1 ‘Misery laid bare’ 1
- 2 ‘Generals without an army’ 23
- 3 Writing while the bombs fall 53
- 4 ‘A constant stream’ 75
- 5 Strategist, publicist 96
- 6 Acts of betrayal 118
- 7 Their own histories 145
- Select bibliography 175
- Index 181
