2.4 Modern Nationalism in Africa

• Meaning of nationalism and modern African nationalism
• Factors that influenced nationalism in Africa
• Lessons from key leaders: Thomas Sankara, Desmond Tutu, Julius Nyerere and Anwar Sadat
• Best practices adopted by African nations to strengthen nationalism
• Advancing modern nationalism today

• explore factors that have influenced nationalism in Africa
• draw lessons from key leaders who contributed to nationalism in African countries
• illustrate best practices that have been adopted by African nations to strengthen nationalism
• acknowledge modern African nationalism in the development of modern African states

“How can you advance modern nationalism?”

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1. What drives African nationalism, and what four leaders teach
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   The forces behind nationalism from the independence struggle to today, and lessons from Sankara, Tutu, Nyerere and Sadat.
2. Best practices, and how you can advance nationalism
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   What African states have done to strengthen nationalism, what has worked, and what a learner can do now.
3. What nationalism means
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   Nation, state and nationalism distinguished, and what made twentieth-century African nationalism modern.
4. What the World Wars changed
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   Returning soldiers, broken promises, exposed European weakness and new international principles - and the argument they made possible.
5. Education, the press and the towns
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   How colonial rule produced the educated group, the newspapers and the mixed towns that ended it.
6. Pan-Africanism and the wider world
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   The Pan-African congresses, the example of India and Ethiopia, the United Nations, and how each independence made the next easier.
7. Thomas Sankara
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   Four years in Burkina Faso: self-reliance, literacy and land, austerity in office - and the coup and repression that belong in the same answer.
8. Julius Nyerere
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   Building one nation from a hundred communities, the failure of Ujamaa, and the rarest thing a leader can do.
9. Desmond Tutu
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   Opposing apartheid without calling for revenge, chairing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and criticising the new government too.
10. Anwar Sadat
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    Fighting a war and then making peace with the same enemy: the Nobel Prize, regional isolation, and assassination.