African nationalism - wikipedia African nationalism Not to be confused with black nationalism which defines national identity in purely racial terms. Kenneth Kaunda, a leading anti-colonial nationalist, pictured at a political rally in Northern Rhodesia ( now Zambia ) in 1960 African nationalism is an umbrella term which refers to a group of political ideologies, mainly within Sub-Saharan Africa, which are based on the idea of national self - determination and the creation of nation states. The ideology emerged under European colonial rule during the 19th and 20th centuries and was loosely inspired by nationalist ideas from Europe. Originally, African nationalism was based on demands for self - determination and played an important role in forcing the process of decolonisation of Africa ( c. 1957 -- 66 ). However, the term refers to a broad range of different ideological and political movements and should not be confused with Pan-Africanism which may seek the federation of several or all nation states in Africa. Contents 1 History 2 Tribalism and ethnic nationalism 3 Women in African nationalism 3.1 Women in National Organisations 3.2 Women as National Leaders 3.3 Women and Informal Methods of Protest 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading History Ghanaian nationalists celebrating the 50th anniversary of national independence in 2007 Nationalist ideas in Sub-Saharan Africa emerged during the mid-19th century among the emerging black middle classes in West Africa. Early nationalists hoped to overcome ethnic fragmentation by creating nation - states. In its earliest period, it was inspired by African - American and Afro - Caribbean intellectuals from the Back - to - Africa movement who imported nationalist ideals current in Europe and the Americas at the time. The early African nationalists were elitist and believed in the supremacy of Western culture but sought a greater role for themselves in political decision - making. They rejected African traditional religions and tribalism as `` primitive '' and embraced western ideas of Christianity, modernity, and the nation state. However, one of the challenges faced by nationalists in unifying their nation after European rule were the divisions of tribes and the formation of ethnicism. Part of the Politics series on Pan-African Topics Arts African art Black Star of Africa Pan-African colours Pan-African flag Ideology African nationalism African philosophy African socialism Afrocentrism Black nationalism Garveyism Lumumbism Mobutism Négritude Nkrumaism Rastafari Sankarism Third International Theory Ujamaa People Yosef Ben - Jochannan Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof Cheikh Anta Diop W.E.B. Du Bois Frantz Fanon Muammar Gaddafi Marcus Garvey Félix Houphouët - Boigny C.L.R. James Patrice Lumumba Malcolm X Julius Malema Robert Mugabe Kwame Nkrumah George Padmore Walter Rodney Thomas Sankara Haile Selassie Ahmed Sékou Touré Omali Yeshitela Related Africa African and Black Topics Afro - Asian Afro - Latino Anti-Colonialism Black people Reparations for slavery Africa portal Politics portal African nationalism first emerged as a mass movement in the years after World War II as a result of wartime changes in the nature of colonial rule as well as social change in Africa itself. Nationalist political parties were established in almost all African colonies during the 1950s and their rise was an important reason for the decolonisation of Africa between c. 1957 and 1966. However, African nationalism was never a single movement and political groups considered to be African nationalists varied by economic orientation and degrees of radicalism and violence. Nationalists leaders struggled to find their own social and national identity following the European influence that controlled the political landscape during the colonial occupation. African nationalism in the colonial era was often framed purely in opposition to colonial rule and was therefore frequently unclear or contradictory about its other objectives. According to historian Robert I. Rotberg, African nationalism would not have emerged without colonialism. Its relation to Pan-Africanism was also ambiguous with many nationalist leaders professing Pan-African loyalties but still refusing to commit to supranational unions. African nationalists of the period have also been criticised for their continued use of ideas and policies associated with colonial states. In particular, nationalists usually attempted to preserve national frontiers created arbitrarily under colonial rule after independence and create a national sense of national identity among the heterogeneous populations inside them. Tribalism and ethnic nationalism African nationalism exists in an uneasy relationship with tribalism and sub-national ethnic nationalism which differ in their conceptions of political allegiance. Many Africans distinguish between their ethnic and national identities. Some nationalists have argued that tribes were a colonial creation. Women in African nationalism During the late 1950s and 1960s, scholars of African nationalist struggles have primarily focused on the Western - educated male elites who led the nationalist movements and assumed power after independence. The history of studies of women 's involvement in African nationalist struggle, mobilization, and party politics can be traced along intellectual and political paths that initially followed, later paralleled, but have seldom deviated from or led the course of Africanist historiography. The goal of these women involved in the African nationalism movement was to recover Africa 's past and to celebrate the independent emergence of independent Africa. It was necessary to raise awareness of this cause, calling to the new emerging generation of African women, raised in a better, more stable society. Although, the challenges they faced seemed increasingly more significant, they however had it better than past generations, allowing them to raise awareness of the African Nationalist moment. Whereas women 's historians interested in effecting changes in the process and production of American or European history had to fight their way onto trains that had been moving through centuries on well - worn gauges, the `` new '' Africanist train had barely left the station in the early ' 60s. With a few exceptions, scholars have devoted little more than a passing mention of the presence of African women as conscious political actors in African nationalism. Anne McClintock has stressed that `` all nationalisms are gendered. '' Undoubtedly, women played a significant role in arousing national consciousness as well as elevating their own political and social position through African nationalism. It is with this in mind, that both feminism and the research of these women become critical to the re-evaluation of the history of African nationalism. In 1943, a prominent organization called the African National Congress Women 's League used its branches throughout the country to build a national campaign. Women in national organisations As leaders and activists, women participated in African nationalism through national organisations. The decade of the 1950s was a landmark because of the significant number of women who were politically involved in the nationalist struggle. A minority of women were incorporated and affiliated into male - dominated national organisations. Founded by women in 1960, The National Council of Sierra Leone was to become, in 1968, the women 's section of the ruling All People 's Congress and dedicated primarily to the vigorous support of head of state, President Stevens. Women activists extended and conveyed militant behaviours. Nancy Dolly Steele was the organizing secretary and co-founder of the Congress, and has been noted for her militant political and nationalist activities. In the same way, throughout Africa, the influence of trade union movements, in particular, became the spawning ground for women organisers as such. South African women, for instance, emerged as primary catalysts for protests against the Apartheid regime. These women first participated in resistance movements through women 's branches of the larger male dominated liberation organizations, as through the African National Congress ( ANC ). Nevertheless, in 1943, the ANC adopted a new constitution which included a new position for women to become full members of the national movement. Women also formed their own national organisations, such as the Federation of South African Women in 1954, which boasted a membership of 230,000 women. Though at the time women viewed themselves primarily as mothers and wives, the act of their joining in political organisations illustrated a kind of feminist consciousness. Women as national leaders Women were fundamental nationalist leaders in their own right. Under the inspiration of Bibi Titi Mohammed, a former singer in Dar es Salaam who became a Tanganyikan nationalist, Tanzanian women were organised into a Women 's Section of the Tanganyikan African National Union. Mohammed, who was semi-illiterate, was an impressive orator and later combined her nationalist work in the 1950s with her political ambitions. She was one of the most visible Tanganyikan nationalists during the struggle against colonialism and imperialism. She was the only nationalist leader, besides Julius Nyerere, who was recognized across the country at the time of Tanzanian independence. Her legacy as a leader, speaker, organiser and activist is testimony to the pivotal role played by many uneducated women in spreading a national consciousness, a political awareness and securing independence from British rule in Tanzania. Women and informal methods of protest Whilst some female - oriented initiatives may have been conceived and presented to women by male party - leaders, others were clearly created by women themselves. These women used nationalism as a platform to address their own concerns as wives, mothers, industrial workers, peasants, and as women affiliated to the ANC. The 1940s Anti-tax protest in Tanzania involved the women of Peasant Pare, where women employed methods of direct confrontation, provocative language and physical violence. Explicit use of sexual insult was also central to the powerful Anlu protest of the Cameroon in 1958, where women refused to implement agricultural regulations that would have undermined their farming system. In the same way, women used music, dance and informal methods to convey their solidarity for African nationalism. The production of Tanganyikan nationalism in Tanzania can be seen as `` woman 's work, '' where women evoked, created and performed nationalism through their dances and songs. Equally, women were considered the best sloganeers, as traditional story - tellers and singers using ideas, images and phrases that appealed to the non-elite population. Market women in coastal Nigeria and Guinea also used their networks to convey anti-government information. ' Ordinary ' women themselves had transformed `` traditional '' methods for networking and expressing disapproval against individuals, into mechanisms for challenging and unsettling the local colonial administration. However, although these women contributed to African nationalist politics, they had limited impact as their strategies were concerned with shaming, retaliation, restitution and compensation, and were not directly about radical transformation. This problem was a reflection of the extent to which most African women had already been marginalized politically, economically and educationally under colonial regimes in Africa. See also Africa portal Politics portal African Nationalist Movement African socialism African Union Black nationalism Black supremacy Organisation of African Unity Types of nationalism By state Afrikaner nationalism Algerian nationalism Ethiopian nationalism Libyan nationalism Nigerian nationalism By ethnicity Amazighism Igbo nationalism Kabylism Notes Jump up ^ African nationalism Archived 21 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. ^ Jump up to : Rotberg 1966, p. 33. Jump up ^ Berman, Bruce J. ( 1998 ). `` Ethnicity, Patronage and the African State : The Politics of Uncivil Nationalism ''. African Affairs. 97 : 305 -- 341. doi : 10.1093 / oxfordjournals. afraf. a007947 -- via EBSCOhost. Jump up ^ Davidson 1978, p. 165. Jump up ^ Davidson 1978, pp. 166 - 7. Jump up ^ Davidson 1978, p. 167. Jump up ^ Davidson 1978, p. 202. ^ Jump up to : Davidson 1978, p. 374. ^ Jump up to : Rotberg 1966, p. 37. Jump up ^ Isabirye, Stephen ( April 30, 1995 ). `` Tribalism in Africa ''. hartford-hwp.com. Jump up ^ Southall, Aiden ( 2010 ). `` The Illusion of Tribe ''. Perspectives on Africa : A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation ( 2nd ed. ). Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. p. 3. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4051 - 9060 - 2. Jump up ^ A. McClintock, ' `` No Longer in Future Heaven '' : Gender, Race and Nationalism, ' in Dangerous Liaisons : Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives ed. A. McClintock, A. Mufti, E. Shohat ( United States, 1997 ). Jump up ^ S. Geiger, J.M Allman and N. Musisi, Women in African Colonial Histories ( Bloomington, 2002 ). Jump up ^ L.L. Frates, ' Women in the South African National Liberation Movement, 1948 -- 1960 : An Historiographical Overview, ' Ufahamu : A Journal of African Studies Vol. 21, No. 1 - 2 ( 1993 ). Jump up ^ S. Geiger, `` Women in Nationalist Struggle : Tanu Activists in Dar es Salaam, '' The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, ( 1987 ), 1 -- 26. Jump up ^ Jean O'Barr, ' African Women in Politics, ' in African Women South of the Sahara, ed. M.J. Hay and S. Stichter ( London, 1984 ). Jump up ^ S. Geiger, ' Women and African Nationalism, ' Journal of Women 's History Vol. 2, No. 1 ( SAPRING, 1990 ), 227 -- 244. Jump up ^ E. Schmidt, ' Top Down or Bottom Up ? Nationalist Mobilization Reconsidered, with Special Reference to Guinea ( French West Africa, ' American Historical Review ( October, 2005 ), 975 -- 1014. Jump up ^ S. Geiger, ' Women and African Nationalism, ' Journal of Women 's History Vol. 2, No. 1 ( SAPRING, 1990 ), 227 -- 244. References Davidson, Basil ( 1978 ). Let Freedom Come : Africa in Modern History ( First US ed. ). Boston : Little - Brown. ISBN 0 - 316 - 17435 - 1... Rotberg, Robert I. ( May 1966 ). `` African Nationalism : Concept or Confusion ? ''. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 4 ( 1 ) : 33 -- 46. doi : 10.1017 / s0022278x00012957. JSTOR 159414. Geiger, S. ( 1990 ). `` Women and African Nationalism ''. Journal of Women 's History. 2 ( 1 ) : 227 - 244. Schmidt, E. ( 2005 ). `` Top Down or Bottom Up ? Nationalist Mobilization Reconsidered, with Special Reference to Guinea ( French West Africa ) ''. American Historical Review : 975 - 1014. Geiger, S. ( 1987 ). `` Women in Nationalist Struggle : Tanu Activists in Dar es Salaam ''. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 20 ( 1 ) : 1 - 26. Geiger, S. ; Allman, J. ; Musisi, N. ( 2002 ). Women in African Colonial Histories. Frates, L. ( 1993 ). `` Women in the South African National Liberation Movement, 1948 -- 1960 : An Historiographical Overview ''. Ufahamu : A Journal of African Studies. 21 ( 1 / 2 ). O'Barr, J. ; Hay, M. ; Stichter, S. ( 1984 ). African Women South of the Sahara. 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Question: what is the name of the african nationalist movement that started in the 1950s
Answer: Back-to-Africa movement