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“Pan-Africanism and Education is a rich, thoughtful and thought-provoking book….”
The Journal of African History
“This is a significant book…. King has broken some very important fresh ground.”
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
“King’s analysis of the Phelps-Stokes Commission and its work with regard to[Black] education in the… United States and African education in East Africa is an extremely significant contribution.”
African Studies Review
“[T]his [is a] well-written and comprehensive study [and] a major contribution to, and a new interpretation of, our existing knowledge of African education in its political and social setting.”
The Journal of Modern African Studies
This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to pattern politics and education in colonial Africa upon the example of the U.S. South. This export of United States race relations to Africa was resisted by Black intellectuals in the United States and many of the early nationalists in Africa. At another level, the study offers an original account of the parallel and related development of the education systems of the U.S. South and Kenya, revealing in both spheres the essentially political nature of African and Black American education. Through extensive research in Black colleges, philanthropic foundations, and Christian missions, a wealth of new material has been collated also on early pan-African politicians, Black missionaries to Africa, and African students in the United States.