Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 28 - "Leina's Blood, Part 2” (リィナの血 (後)) discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Pan-Africanism.

• Wikipedia pages for the Pan-African colors and Pan-African flag.
• Ethiopian history, and a source for the Ethiopian flag as the source of the Pan-African colors: Smith, Whitney. Flag Lore of All Nations. Millbrook Press, 2003.
• About Theodosia Okoh, the artist and statesperson who designed Ghana's flag (including her description of the symbolism of the flag's colors).
• Pages about Pan-Africanism from Wikipedia and the Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme.
• BBC article about the Organisation of African Unity conference in 1963.
• Article examining the different views of Japanese Imperialism by Black intellectuals in the United States.
• Series of Articles from “Africana Age: African and African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century,” a project from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (accessed via Wayback Machine): 1. Pan Africanism 2. W. E. B. Du Bois 3. Marcus Garvey 4. Africa - 1980-2010 5. The Black Power Movement
• Timeline of decolonization in Africa.
• About the Angolan Civil War.
• Wikipedia pages for Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah.
• The definition of neocolonialism that I referenced.
• The poem from the farewell is Auf Wiedersehen by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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