Africa: Pan-Africanism and Trade Unions in the Post-Colonial Era

16 May 2019
analysis

Workers' protests and resistance movements that preceded Africa's independence demonstrated the working class's quest for a continental effectual workers alliance.

Western imperialism was built off of the exploitation of African land and labour from the mid-to-late 15th century through the conclusion of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the consolidation of classical colonialism at the end of the 1800s.

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