Building the African Nation

Ethan R. Sanders is an associate professor of history at Regis University in Denver. He is a scholar of global intellectual history with a focus on East Africa. His work has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Studies Review, and the Journal of History.

• Introduction; 1. Ethiopianism, redemptive pan-Africanism, and the African nation in the thought of James Aggrey; 2. Local and regional influences in creating a pan-African political program; 3. Building the African nation: Paul Sindi Seme and the creation of a pan-African network, Zanzibar and the Mainland, 1935–1946; 4. African identity and practical pan-Africanism in the African association; 5. African identity and practical pan-Africanism among the women of the African association; 6. Competing nationalisms and shifting loyalties: the creation and dissolution of the African association's pan-African project; 7. Uafrika na Umoja: the African political thought of Julius Nyerere; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

'Drawing on a wide range of institutional and private archives, including Julius Nyerere's library, Ethan Sanders offers a new way of thinking about eastern African political thought, moving us beyond the limitations of territorial nationalism. Building the African Nation fundamentally challenges our understanding of African intellectual history by showing how the African Association first imagined a united political community across eastern Africa.' Jonathon L. Earle, Centre College