McCann, Gerard orcid.org/0000-0003-0509-319X (2019) Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian solidarity? Africa's 'Bandung moment' in 1950s Asia. Journal of World History. pp. 89-123. ISSN 1527-8050
Abstract
Africans are staged but not often heard in discussions of the ‘Bandung moment’, a high-watermark of decolonial possibility and Afro-Asian connection. This article foregrounds the agency and perspectives of African activists who travelled across Asia in the 1950s. In Delhi, Rangoon and Bandung, Africans engaged, co-produced and made useable the dialogical Afro-Asian world to deconstruct colonialism and engineer alternative futures. The piece tracks these dynamics through three interlocked arenas of Afro-Asian affinity: journeys of African students to India from the 1940s; African participation in the Asian Socialist Conference in Burma, 1953–1956, and, as the geographies of Afro-Asianism shifted, radicalized and splintered, African activism within the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization in Cairo from 1957. It reveals how the overlapping internationalisms of these fora reinforced a dyad of anti-colonial politics and development in the construction of African nationhood and pan-African community. This article breaks new ground in privileging the Afro in Afro-Asian.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2019 13:30 |
Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2025 00:05 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2019.0014 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/jwh.2019.0014 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:143555 |
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