Africa
Articles about Africa from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Africa (43 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Africa.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Mar) | The Methodist Church, North | Condemns the Methodist Church, North for sidelining Black leadership and trading racial justice for reunion with the South. |
| 1912 (Mar) | Votes for Women | Urges Black voters to back women’s suffrage, tying democracy, racial justice, and uplift to universal enfranchisement. |
| 1913 (May) | Peace | Criticizes American peace leaders for ignoring colonial imperialism, urging democratic, anti-racist peace over aristocratic dignity. |
| 1913 (Nov) | The People of Peoples and Their Gifts to Men | Stages a 1913 pageant in The Crisis celebrating Black contributions to civilization, labor, faith and the struggle for freedom. |
| 1914 (Mar) | The Story of Africa | Celebrates Africa’s great civilizations and condemns the violence of empire, trade and slavery. |
| 1914 (May) | World War and the Color Line | Argues World War stems from imperialism and the color line, warning race prejudice fuels global conflict. |
| 1914 (Jun) | The Christmas Prayers of God | Condemns war, imperial exploitation, racial violence and lynching, pleading to God for justice and mercy. |
| 1916 (Feb) | Lies Agreed Upon | Denounces erasure of Black achievement, arguing racial prejudice rewrites history and denies nonwhite role in civilization. |
| 1916 (Feb) | That Capital ‘N’ | Argues that capitalizing Negro affirms racial dignity and rejects a legacy of slavery and editorial bias. |
| 1916 (Feb) | The Drama Among Black Folk | Champions Black pageantry as folk drama and racial education, shows its artistic promise and financial neglect. |
| 1916 (Mar) | The Battle of Europe | Argues WWI exposes Western civilization’s brutality, prompting racial pride, democratic change, and cultural renewal. |
| 1916 (May) | To the Rescue | Criticizes U.S. policy as Black troops fight to defend white liberties abroad, urging race-based self-defense and rights. |
| 1917 (Jun) | Resolutions of the Washington Conference | Urges Black Americans to join the war effort and demands race justice: voting, education, end to lynching and Jim Crow. |
| 1919 (Jan) | The Future of Africa | Urges ending colonial exploitation and racial prejudice, calling for Pan-African self-rule, education, and labor reform. |
| 1919 (Feb) | Africa | Shows how European colonial partition and WWI’s aftermath fueled Pan‑Africanism and demands for racial self‑determination. |
| 1919 (Feb) | Reconstruction and Africa | Exposes European colonial greed and hypocrisy, urging African self-rule and protection of native labor, culture and rights. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Labor Omnia Vincit | Argues labor must claim its due: racial justice, democratic equality, and Black workers’ rightful wages. |
| 1919 (May) | My Mission | Recounts organizing a Pan‑African Congress in Paris to press race, rights and League of Nations action for Black democracy. |
| 1920 (Jan) | Race Pride | Challenges race pride, arguing whites must choose segregation or true democracy and justice for all races. |
| 1920 (Feb) | Leadership | Condemns imperialist leadership - England and Wilson - for betraying democracy, racial justice, and labor in the League. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Pan-Africa | Calls a Pan‑African Congress in Paris to rally Black governments and activists for racial solidarity, democracy, and self‑rule. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Africa for the Africans | (1921, The Crisis) argues Africa must be governed for Africans, critiques colonial labor limits and urges self-rule over racial paternalism. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Charles Young | Honors soldier Charles Young, chronicling racist Army injustice that sacrificed his career and life for duty and race. |
| 1921 (Mar) | Investments | Warns Black investors to safeguard race capital—demand honesty, responsibility, feasibility and capable leadership. |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Second Pan-African Congress | Announces the Second Pan-African Congress in Paris, arguing logistics and anti-colonial solidarity unite Black communities. |
| 1921 (Nov) | Manifesto to the League of Nations | 1921 asks the League of Nations to affirm racial equality, study Negro labor, and appoint Black members to Mandates Commission. |
| 1922 (Apr) | The Negro and Labor | Exposes how race and labor intersect: white workers, employers, and imperialism pit Black labor against democracy and rights. |
| 1922 (May) | The Drive | Urges Black Americans to back the NAACP, fight lynching and Jim Crow at home, and defend democracy. |
| 1923 (Mar) | Florida | Advises Black migrants against emigrating to Liberia without capital, skills, and health, stressing labor realities. |
| 1924 (Jan) | The Black Man and the Wounded World | Argues income-seeking elites, backed by propaganda and law, sustain racial imperialism and deny labor, democracy, education. |
| 1924 (Jan) | Helping Africa | Critiques paternalism toward Africa, arguing Africans claim land, self-determination, and resist colonial control. |
| 1924 (Mar) | Sketches from Abroad | Recounts travel sketches across Europe toward Africa, critiquing imperialism, whiteness, and noting Pan-African ties. |
| 1924 (Apr) | Little Portraits of Africa | Celebrates Africa’s landscape, people, and spiritual culture and critiques the heavy cost of colonial civilizing labor. |
| 1924 (May) | A Lunatic or a Traitor | Condemns Marcus Garvey as a dangerous traitor or lunatic who undermines race progress and Black democracy. |
| 1925 (May) | Our Book Shelf | Reviews Johnson’s Negro Spirituals and Woofter’s racial study, praising musical heritage and calling for racial fairness. |
| 1925 (Jun) | The Firing Line | Argues the U.S., not Africa or the West Indies, is the racial firing line, urging democratic struggle and voting rights. |
| 1927 (Jan) | League of Nations | Critiques the League of Nations for excluding Black labor and colonial voices, urging racial and labor representation. |
| 1927 (Mar) | Liberia | Urges sympathy for Liberia, critiques missionary overreach and paternalism, defends Firestone lease, warns corporate power. |
| 1928 (Mar) | The Name Negro | Argues that naming cannot erase racism; the real work is affirming Black humanity and democracy, not changing labels. |
| 1929 (May) | Missionaries | Exposes racial discrimination in U.S. missionary societies, blocking Black missionaries to Africa. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Smuts | Exposes Jan Smuts’ white-supremacist vision, arguing it denies Black education, labor, and democratic rights. |
| 1932 (Nov) | If I Had a Million Dollars: A Review of the Phelps Stokes Fund | Faults the Phelps Stokes Fund for favoring surveys and white education over Black scholarships and leadership |
| 1933 (Oct) | Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy | Urges Pan‑African unity to confront racial labor exploitation and economic injustice, reclaiming Black agency. |
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