• Dzodzi Tsikata (dt48@soas.ac.uk) is a Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Before this, she was a Professor of Development Sociology and is the immediate past Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. Her research in the last 30 years has been in the areas of gender and development policies and practices; agrarian change and rural livelihoods; the labour relations of the informal economy and transformative social policy.

• Mjiba Frehiwot (mfrehiwot@ug.edu.gh) is a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Dr. Frehiwot researches, debates, and thinks deeply about Pan-African consciousness and how to decolonize and re-Africanize knowledge production in Global Africa.

• Edem Adotey (eadotey@ug.edu.gh) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He is a historian, and his primary research lies in African borderlands, particularly the intersection between the international borders and chieftaincy, electoral politics, nationalism, citizenship, and Pan-Africanism.

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    The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation: Revisiting The 1958 All-African People’s Conference

    Dzodzi Tsikata, Mjiba Frehiwot, Edem Adotey
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    The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation: Revisiting The 1958 All-African People’s Conference

    Dzodzi Tsikata, Mjiba Frehiwot, Edem Adotey

    This 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. The four-day conference was a collaboration between the Institute of African Studies, Trades Union Congress of Ghana, Socialist

    Forum of Ghana, Lincoln University, and the Third World Network Africa.

    The book consists of three sections. The first contains ten 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. The second section features speeches delivered at the Conference – the welcome and closing addresses, solidarity messages from prominent pan-Africanists as well as an interview with the last living delegate of the 1958 All-African People’s Conference. The last section contains the conference background documentation and the Statement of Issues and Recommendations adopted by the Conference. The bookends are two poems by pan-Africanist scholar-poets. The book offers valuable perspectives on Africa’s current predicaments and what a truly liberated Africa can offer to the world.

     

     

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Invocation

    • Ancestral Roll-Call – Kofi Anyidoho

    Introduction- Back to the Future: The 1958 AAPC and the Power of Optimism

    Section 1

    1. Revisiting The 1958 All-African People’s Conference –The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation – Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
    2. Revisiting The 1958 All-African People’s Conference –The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation – Horace Campbell
    3. Pan-Africanism in Mwalimu Nyerere’s Thought – Issa Shivji
    4. Ghana (1957 – 1966): Reflections and Lessons From a 20th Century Pan-African Liberated Nation-State – D. Zizwe Poe
    5. Transnational Citizenship on the Borderlands: Towards Making (Non)Sense of National Borders in Africa – Edem Adotey
    6. Looking Backwards to Run Forward: A Critical Examination of the 60th Anniversary of the 1958 All-African People’s Conference – Mjiba Frehiwot
    7. Generating Inclusive and Sustainable Growth: Challenging Neoliberal Approaches to Gender Mainstreaming in Regional Economic Integration in Africa – Adryan Wallace
    8. A Brief History of Development Initiatives in Africa – Anthony Yaw Baah
    9. Pan-African Epistemologies of Knowledge Production: A Deconstruction-Based Critical Reflection – James Dzisah & Michael Kpessa Whyte
    10. Hip-Hop Studies as a Model for Anti-imperialist Research in Africa – Msia Kibona Clark

    Section 2

    1. Speech by the chair of the Secretariat 60th Anniversary of the All-African People’s Conference – Dzodzi Tsikata
    2. Speech by H.E Thabo Mbeki former president of South Africa
    3. Speech by the Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Kwesi Quartey
    4. Speech by the Chair of the 60th Anniversary of the All-African People’s Conference – Akilagpa Sawyerr
    5. In-conversation: Speaking with History (participant at the 1958 AAPC) – G. A. Balogun interview – Edem Adotey

    Section 3

    1. AAPC @ 60 Conference Background Documentation
    2. On culture at the AAPC @ 60 – Eric Tei-Kumado and Edem Adotey
    3. AAPC @ 60 Conference Recommendations and Issues for the Future

    Exhortation

    • De Geas of Rickydoc: an Exhortation – Arthur Flowers
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