The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa s 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-Africanism s history and founding ideals and conducts ruthless forensic...
The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo ...