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Origins of Pan-Africanism - Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora (Paperback)
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Origins of Pan-Africanism - Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and
the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering
Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an
immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century.
Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the African
Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in
1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who
attended went on to work in various pan-African organizations in
their homelands. He became not only a qualified barrister, but the
first Black man admitted to the Bar in Cape Town, and one of the
first two elected Black borough councilors in London. These are
remarkable achievements for anyone, especially for a Black man of
working-class origins in an era of gross racial discrimination and
social class hierarchies. Williams died in 1911, soon after his
return to his homeland, Trinidad. Through original research,
Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and
the African Diaspora is set in the social context of the times,
providing insight not only into a remarkable man who has been
heretofore virtually written out of history, but also into the
African Diaspora in the UK a century ago.
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