Open AccessNON-ALIGNEMENT IN AFRICA
Author(s) -
Glenn Jacobs
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/10-2-706
Subject(s) - solidarity , nationalism , zenith , politics , kwame , political science , gender studies , history , ancient history , sociology , geography , law , anthropology , geodesy
The first indications to the Western world that African non-alignment had achieved conscious political form became apparent only in the late 1940's. This strand of thought within the tapestry of Africanism reached its zenith with the declarations of Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere in the years after the Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945. The causes of the movement go back far beyond the first official expressions of an African solidarity in the 1940's. As a mature expression of group attitudes tqwards foreign pol icy, nonalignment can be traced back to the roots of African nationalism