Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa: the peace maker, true East African and Pan-Africanist: President Benjamin Mkapa at the end of his tenure in December 2005. Mwanzo Millinga/AFP via Getty Images)The former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa, who died on July 24, was the country’s third president. He was in office from 1995 to 2005. Born in 1938 in Masasi south-eastern … [Read more...] about Tanzania’s Benjamin Mkapa: the peace maker, true East African and Pan-Africanist | The Conversation
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Sobukwe’s pan-Africanist dream: an illusive idea that refuses to die | The Conversation
ShutterstockFoundation essay: Our foundation essays are longer than usual and take a wider look at key issues affecting society. Is Africa really for Africans? American commissioner to Africa and abolitionist Martin Delany asked this question a century and a half ago following his sojourn in Africa and Europe. Attempts to answer it spawned pan-Africanism - an idea that … [Read more...] about Sobukwe’s pan-Africanist dream: an illusive idea that refuses to die | The Conversation
