Question

In no less than four sentences, discuss at least three reasons that African nationalism grew in the late 1940s and early 1950s

Answer 1

Answer:

In the "McCarthy era" (1950 ~ 1954) any actor who was suspected of being a communist sympathizer was put "black listed" and found it almost impossible to find work. Homosexuals were black listed and removed from government jobs.. We get the same thing today in a more subtle way when a person like an actor can't find work because of their political views, but that is more an industry thing than an official government policy. Certain movie studios or TV networks will only use people who have the same political view as the owners. You can rest assured that Rush Limbaugh will probably not end up as the News Anchor on CBS and Al Franken will most likely not host a show on Fox.

Answer 2

African nationalism relates primarily to the notion of national self-determination and national state formation within a coalition of political philosophies within Sub-Saharan Africa. During the 19th and 20th centuries, ideology emerged under European colonial rule, loosely driven by European nationalist ideas.  African nationalism attempted to transform the identity of Africans

Explanation:

• In mid-19th Century, nationalist ideals originated from the rising black middle classes in "West Africa" in "sub-Saharan Africa". Early nationalists hoped to overcome ethnic divide by establishing "nation-states"
• As a consequence of the change of the colonial rule nature as well as social change in Africa, African nationalism was first developed as a mass movement within the years after World War II.
• The first was main reason was the unhappiness of almost 2 million African soldiers who were in the Second War (1939-1945), upon returning to colonial States and being met with as slaves
• Secondly, Kwame Nkrumah's  " the Father of Pan Africanism"  inspired the African nationalist leaders against the "colonial rules" in order to fight for and accomplish freedom.
• The third reason was to "maintain the unity" amongst them after the "rejection of colonies" which  had oppressed African Nationalist.
• In most of the African colonies in the 1950s, "nationalist political parties" were established and were a major reason for decolonization of Africa from between 1957 to 1966.