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The book features essays, speeches, and reflections from the 60th-anniversary commemoration of the All-African People's Conference (AAPC), an epochal event in the history of the emancipatory struggles of African people. It includes essays on some of the conference's key themes - decolonising knowledge production, a new politics for substantive democracy and security, economic liberalisation and the crises of work, and Pan-Africanism yesterday, today, and tomorrow. These themes are deeply relevant to Africa's current predicaments. Included also are speeches delivered at the Conference and an interview with the last living delegate of the 1958 All-African People's Conference. The book offers valuable perspectives on Africa's current challenges and what a truly liberated Africa can offer the world.
The Unfinished Business of African Liberation is a path-breaking collection of proceedings commemorating the 1958 landmark All African People's Conference. The volume is essential reading for all those interested in pursuing African decolonization and liberation in the 21st century. - Amina Mama, Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies, University of California, Davis, former Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies at the University of Ghana.
It is a must-read for all who care about the contemporary plight of African people. - Sylvia Tamale, Decolonial feminist & Professor of Law, School of Law, Makerere University, Uganda.
This collection presents critical thinking by a wide spectrum of Pan-African workers, youth, women, students, intellectuals, businesspeople, activists, academics, and politicians.- Adotey Bing-Pappoe, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and International Business, University of Greenwich,
