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Pan-Africanism and Pentecostalism in Africa: Strange Bedfellows or Perfect Partners?
Clifton Clarke, PhD Introduction What has Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B Du Bois and the Marcus Garvey got to do with speaking in tongue? Perhaps more than might be initially imagined. The title of this paper is Pan-Africanism and Pentecostalism in Africa: Strange Bedfellows or Perfect partners . My plan for this paper is a simple one. In addressing ourselves to the issue of Pan-Africanism and African Pentecostalism, I want to explore whether African Pentecostalism can assist in the constructing a Pan-African political theology. The inspiration for this paper came from three sources. First and foremost from my reading of the various nineteenth and twentieth century prominent West Indian Pan-Africanist over the years, including Marcus Garvey, Henry Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Edward Wilmot Blyden as well as significant African advocates such as Kwame Nkrumah, James (Holy) Johnson, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta along with American Pan-Africanist such as W.E. B. Du Bois, Henry G...
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