Required Readings (on Talis)

Gerard McCann. Possibility and Peril: Trade Unionism, African Cold War, and the Global Strands of Kenyan Decolonization , Journal of Social History (31 pages)

Charles A. Orr Trade Unionism in Colonial Africa. The Journal of Modern African Studies (17 pages)

Stephen H. Goodman. Trade Unions and Political Parties: The Case of East Africa Economic Development and Cultural Change (8pages)

Guy Pfeffermann. Trade Unions and Politics in French West Africa during the Fourth Republic, African Affairs (19 pages).

Further Readings (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

‘Trade unions were experimental engine rooms for African nationalist possibility, soldering mass, grassroots movements to grand African nationalist and pan-African ideology—ideas inextricably entangled with broader geopolitical conflict from the 1940s to 1960s.’ Gearald McCann.

What role did trade unions play in nationalist movements in Africa?