A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism, 1964–1974 (Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora)

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Between 1964 and 1974 Tanzania came to be thought to be a model nation and a leading frontline state in the struggle for African liberation at the continent and beyond. All over this time, plenty of African American and Caribbean nationalists, leftists, and pan-Africanists traveled to and settled in Tanzania to sign up for the country that many believed to be leading Africa’s liberation struggle. This historical study examines the political landscape of that the most important moment when African American, Caribbean, and Tanzanian histories overlapped, shedding light at the challenges of creating a new nation and the nature of African American and Caribbean participation in Tanzania’s nationalist project. In examining the pragmatic partnerships and exchanges between socialist Tanzania and activists and organizations associated with the Black Power movements in the US and the Caribbean, this study argues that the Tanzanian one-party government actively engaged with the diaspora and sought to utilize its political, cultural, labor, and intellectual capital to further its national building agenda, but by itself terms, creating tension within the pan-Africanism movement. A very good resource for academics and nonacademics alike, this work is the first of its kind, revealing the significance of the radical political and social movements of Tanzania and what it means for us as of late.

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