Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
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But Nkrumah's success as, you know, lighting the way meant that this would not win in the day.
So where's pan-Africanism today?
I think that on the African continent, we have a situation where almost all of the leaders of African countries are
either pay lip service to watered-down notions of Pan-Africanism, or simply have no interest in the idea and don't even talk about it, right?
Where you have a small number of states which are openly wrestling with this legacy and openly trying to pull on strands of incriminism.
to try to reinvent themselves and to find more viable paths forward.
The most obvious examples of these are the Sahelian states that have radically broken with France and are talking about trying to join forces in various ways.
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and to a lesser extent, Chad, right?
They're trying to work along these lines.
It's not clear to me where this is going to go.
It's not clear to me how much of this is populism and demagoguery versus actual serious commitment or whatnot.
But it's very different from what we see on the rest of the continent, right?
You could also throw maybe Senegal in a more peripheral way into this because
The Senegalese also have provided some intellectual and emotional or sympathetic support to these states.
You could also look at actually Ghana right now, which has just elected a government which flows from the Nkrumah tradition.
We don't know much yet about what this new presidency in Ghana is going to produce.
So this is just to say that at the elite level, at the state level, Pan-Africanism is not altogether dead.
What's most interesting to me
is that I believe on the African continent, rank and file, ordinary, everyday Africans, listen, I've been to almost every African country.
I've spent a great deal of time in an enormous, unusually large number of African countries.
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