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India’s Poverty and the Origins of African Nationalism*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2017

Ali A. Mazrui
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In 1965 and 1966 Africa and India shared once again the adversity of widespread famine in their respective areas. A Commonwealth initiative by Britain, Canada, and Australia – designed to cope with aspects of the famine problem – was announced early in January 1966. And the United States launched a programme of food aid for the areas. Such rescue operations were crucial under the pressure of an emergency. What persisted after the worst was over was the basic vulnerability of such areas as India and Africa to the whims of their climates.

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Research Article
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Government and Opposition , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , October 1966 , pp. 83 - 88
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1967

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Footnotes

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This is part of a longer paper on ‘Africa and the Third World’ presented at the City University of New York as part of a special series of faculty seminars on the International Politics of Africa. The series was under the chairmanship of Professor Benjamin Rivlin.

References

1 See Coleman, James S., Nigeria, Background to Nationalism, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1958, p. 191 Google Scholar.

2 See Lagos Weekly Record, 10 April 1920.

3 The Keys, Official Organ of the League of Coloured Peoples (in the United Kingdom), 1933-38. Cited by Coleman, op. cit., p. 203.

4 Awolowo, , Path to Nigerian Freedom, London, 1947, pp. 50-3Google Scholar.

5 Opening speech to a motion appealing for national unity, delivered to the Legis lative Council at Kaduna, on 4 March 1958. See Zik, , A Selection from the Speeches of Nnamdi Azikizve, Cambridge, 1961, p. 102 Google Scholar.

6 Convention People’s Party, Forward to Freedom with the Common People: Mani festo for the General Election, 1954 Accra, National Executive of the Convention People’s Party, 1954, partly reproduced in The Political Awakening of Africa, edited by Rupert Emerson and Martin Kilson, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1965, pp. 110-17. The emphasis in the quotation is original.

7 See Ghana, , The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, Edinburgh, 1959, p. 92 Google Scholar.

8 See Tomlin, , The Oriental Philosophers, New York, 1963, p. 231 Google Scholar.

9 This point is discussed in a related context in my book The Anglo-African Commonwealth, due for publication by Pergamon early in 1967.

10 Nkrumah, Autobiography, op. cit., p. 96.

11 ‘Political Python of India’, New York Times Magazine, 20 February 1966, p. 26.

12 See DuBois, W. E. B., The World and Africa (first published 1946), New York, 1965, Enlarged edition, p. 35 Google Scholar. DuBois, an American Negro, was one of the founding fathers of the Pan-African movement. He became a citizen of independent Ghana and died three years ago.