Table of Contents
Contents: IntroductionPart One: Early Visions of Independence Introduction 1. Samuel Crowther – Letter to the Secretaries of the Church Missionary Society, 1841 2. James Africanus Horton – Advice to the Rising Generation in West Africa, 1868 3. The Fante Confederation Constitution, 1871 4. Edward Blyden – The Origin and Purpose of Colonization, 1881 5. W.E.B. Du Bois – To the Nations of the World, 1900 6. Mojola Agbebi – The West African Problem, 1911 7. J.E. Casely Hayford – Race Emancipation – Particular Considerations: African Nationality, 1911 8. Marcus Garvey – If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul, 1921 Part Two: Paths to Independence Introduction 9. The Fifth Pan-African Congress – Resolutions, 1945 10. Jomo Kenyatta – Speech at the Kenya African Union, 1952 11. George Padmore – Communism and Black Nationalism, 1956 12. Félix Houphouet-Boigny – French Africa and the French Union, 1957 13. Charles de Gaulle – The Franco-African Community, 1958 14. The All-African People’s Conference – Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, 1958 15. Bibi Titi Mohammed – “Travel for TANU”: Interview, 1958 16. Sekou Touré - The Political Leader Considered as the Representative of a Culture, 1959 17. Gamal Abdel Nasser – The Philosophy of the Revolution, 1959 18. Harold Macmillan – Wind of Change, 1960 19. Henrik Verwoerd – Response to Macmillan 20. Patrice Lumumba – Two Speeches, 1960 21. The United Nations – Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960 22. K.A. Busia – The Challenge of Nationalism, 1962 Part Three: Independence Struggles Introduction 23. Karari Njama – Reflections on the Mau Mau Oath, 1952 24. Albert Luthuli – The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross, 1952 25. The Algerian National Liberation Front – Proclamation of the FLN, 1954 26. The Federation of South African Women – The Women’s Charter, 1954 27. The South African Congress of the People – The Freedom Charter, 1955 28. The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, 1956 29. Ndabaningi Sithole – White Supremacy and African Nationalism, 1959 30. Nelson Mandela – I am Prepared to Die, 1964 31. Ian Smith – Announcement of Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1965 32. Harold Wilson – Position of the British Government on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Rhodesia, 1965 33. Amilcar Cabral – The Weapon of Theory, 1966 34. Andimba Toivo ya Toivo - Freedom for Namibia, 1968 35. Emeka Ojukwu – The Ahiara Declaration, 1969 36. Eduardo Mondlane – The Struggle for Independence in Mozambique, 1969 Part Four: Legitimating Independence Introduction 37. Kwame Nkrumah – I Speak of Freedom, 1961 38. Tom Mboya – Tensions in African Development, 1961 39. Kabaka Mutesa II – Decision to Co-operate with Uganda, 1961 40. Sir Ahmadu Bello – Regional Government, 1962 41. Julius Nyerere – Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism, 1962 42. Organization of African Unity – Founding Charter, 1963 43. Haile Selassie I – A Call to African Leaders, 1963 44. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa – Addis Ababa, 1963 45. Nnamdi Azikiwe – Tribalism: A Pragmatic Instrument for National Unity, 1964 46. Jomo Kenyatta – A One Party System, 1964 47. Léopold Sédar Senghor – African Socialist Humanism, 1964 48. Kwame Nkrumah – Consciencism, 1964 49. Kanyama Chiume and Ex-Malawian Ministers – Appeal to the U.N. and O.A.U. 50. J.B. Danquah – Letter from Prison to Kwame Nkrumah, 1964 51. Vera Chirwa – Origins of the Cabinet Crisis, 1964 52. Obafemi Awolowo – Thoughts on Nigerian Constitution, 1966 53. Kenneth Kaunda – African Development and Foreign Aid, 1966 54. The Tanganyika African National Union – The Arusha Declaration: On the Policy of Self-Reliance in Tanzania, 1967
