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Essays on Pan-Africanism begins with essays by Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdulla, Issa Shivji, Firoze Manji, Sabatho Nyamsenda, Willy Mutunga and Noosim Naimasiah on various aspects of Pan-Africanism. This is followed by Remembering the Champions of African Liberation, with articles on Patrice Lumumba by Antoine Lokongo, Abdulrahman Babu by Amrit Wilson, Makhan Singh by Hindpal Singh and Piyo Rattansi, followed by Tajudeen Abdul Raheem's last Pan African Postcard (2009) and Debating and Documenting Africa - A Conversation. The Preface, Pan-African Thought, is by Prof. Issa Shivji. The book inc

Abstract
Trade unionism was at the leading edge of African freedom struggle in the 1940s and 1950s. It was an incubator where different visions of decolonized futures vied for ascendency after WWII. This article analyzes international labor networks and trade union activism in Kenya to explore the entanglements of decolonization and Cold War from Africa in the 1940s to 1960s, an era when competing modes of anticolonial internationalism laid paths to independence. This story is told in two phases. Through Makhan Singh, the article assesses the influence of Indo-African connection, Marxism and the radical left on labor organization over the 1940s. Then, through Tom Mboya, the article charts Kenyan affiliation to the anticommunist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) from the early 1950s. It shows how this internationalist volte-face transformed Kenya's trade union landscape, propelled anticolonial agitation and, by the late 1950s, wrought irreparable fractures in fledgling pan-African institutions over the very nature of postcolonialism. The article argues that mobile African labor leaders coproduced, domesticated, and molded Cold War networks—that the conduits of early global Cold War agency ran both ways. Singh and Mboya were interlocutors in pluripotent world conversations marshaled for African decolonization. They also helped delineate the terms of global dialogue at a moment of neocolonial peril and decolonizing opportunity. This calls on historians to define alternative chronologies of globalist possibility masked by the tighter constraints placed on African states in the later twentieth century.

A comparative analysis of the Asian communities in both Kenya and Rhodesia. ; Asians in Rhodesia form a small minority group which has been neglected consistently by all commentators. This neglect, at first sight, is justifiable. Rhodesian Asians have never possessed the economic or political power of the Asians in Kenya. An examination of the characteristics of Kenyan Asian association with Africans provides a scale of reference which can then be applied to Rhodesia. When Rhodesian Asian association with Africans is examined in terms of this scale, it becomes clear that they have an importance out of all proportion to their numbers and have played a role relatively more important in modern Rhodesian politics than Asians have played in modern Kenyan politics. Four phases of association emerged in Kenya. The first one involved individuals only. It commenced in 1921, when M. A. Desai gave publicity to Kikuyu demands in the East African Chronicle and provided assistance to Harry Thuku.1 It continued throughout the 1930s, when Isher Dass voiced Kikuyu views on the Carter Commission in 1934, assisted the Kamba over de-stocking in 1938 and expressed Kikuyu and Kavirondo opposition to the Order in Council defining the White Highlands in 1939,2 the year in which Makhan Singh became involved in the Mombasa strike.3