Off-campus University of Miami users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your University of Miami CaneID and Password.

Non-University of Miami users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.

Publication Date

2010-05-08

Availability

UM campus only

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PHD)

Department

History (Arts and Sciences)

Date of Defense

2010-04-12

First Committee Member

Edmund Abaka - Committee Chair

Second Committee Member

Donald Spivey - Committee Member

Third Committee Member

Kate Ramsey - Committee Member

Fourth Committee Member

Ayele Bakerie - Committee Member

Abstract

"A Pan-African Imagined Community" is a multilayered exploration of black internationalism that highlights the linkages between Africa and its diaspora at the points of both theory and praxis. It illuminates how Pan-African bonds were solidified and challenged when Jamaican Rastafarians sought the ideological and physical realization of repatriation to Africa in post-colonial Tanzania. Drawing on previously undiscovered archival documents and oral sources, my work offers a nuanced examination of how notions of Pan-African solidarity are forged and complicated by the realities of economics, law, culture and religion.

Keywords

Black Nationalism; Julius Nyerere; Walter Rodney; Michael Manley; Repatriation; Pan-Africanism

Download

Share

COinS