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<font size="5">'''An anarchist'''<br>'''in Africa'''</font>

<font size="4">'''[[Author:Jeremy Westall|JEREMY WESTALL]]'''</font>

<div style="text-align:justify;">{{sc|As an introduction to this article}} it is my intention to establish that, through my ancestors and myself, I can claim to be a person who is interested in helping Africa rather than exploiting her. This is worth mentioning because many Europeans who have been associated with Africa havee been greedy exploiters, taking rather than giving, destroying rather than building.

{{tab}}There is however a tradition in Africa which speaks for European radicals. It can be seen historically in the life-<wbr>work of {{w|Livingstone|David_Livingstone}}; today men like {{w|Guy Clutton-<wbr>Brock|Guy_Clutton-Brock}} and {{w|Terence Ranger|Terence_Ranger}} fit into this tradition. In Africa {{qq|the liberals}} are renowned for courage and determination, they are a proud example of belief being transferred into action; unlike the weak liberalism of the European countries Africa{{s}} liberalism is tough and practical. Its radical toughness places it close to the anarchist philosophy.

{{tab}}I can claim some association with the Livingstonian tradition. My great-<wbr>grandmother was the sister of {{w|Adam Sedgwick|Adam_Sedgwick}}, a close friend of Livingstone{{s}}. Adam Sedgwick as a {{w|Fellow}} of {{w|Trinity College|Trinity_College,_Cambridge}}, {{w|Cambridge|University_of_Cambridge}} was influential in assisting Livingstone. Of Livingstone Sedgwick wrote: {{qq|He stood before us a plain, single-<wbr>minded, cheerful man and he addressed us in unadorned and simple words.}} The authors of Sedgwick{{s}} biography<ref><font size="2">{{l|''Life and Letters of Sedgwick''|https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofrev01clarrich/page/n9}} by {{w|Clark|John_Willis_Clark}} & {{w|Hughes|Thomas_McKenny_Hughes}}. 2 Vols. (Cambridge Univ. Press).</font></ref> report that when Sedgwick spoke at a meeting in {{w|Cambridge|Cambridge}} after Livingstone {{qq|he entreated his hearers not merely to welcome and thank Livingstone for what he had said, but to carry forward the noble work which he had so auspiciously begun. His words were few, but well chosen, and when he sat down the applause told that they had gone streight to the hearts of his hearers.}}
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 {{tab}}Writ&shy;ing in [[Anarchy 3|{{sc|anarchy}} No. 3]] on {{qq|[[Anarchy 3/Africa and the future|Africa and the Future]]}} in May 1961 I wrote: {{qq|What&shy;ever one says or thinks of the Afri&shy;can na&shy;tion&shy;al&shy;ist polit&shy;i&shy;cians, it is good to see a people throw&shy;ing off the yoke of colon&shy;ial&shy;ism. To me the thought of one na&shy;tion for&shy;cing its cus&shy;toms and cul&shy;ture on to an&shy;other is so des&shy;pic&shy;able that I re&shy;joice in the fact that the Afri&shy;cans want to make their own way. This is what gains my qual&shy;if&shy;ied sup&shy;port for the vari&shy;ous strug&shy;gles for in&shy;de&shy;pend&shy;ence. What I do em&shy;phas&shy;ise how&shy;ever, is that the strug&shy;gle is ''only'' for in&shy;de&shy;pend&shy;ence and is, sadly, no&shy;thing to do with free&shy;dom.}} My re&shy;cent ex&shy;peri&shy;ences of Afri&shy;can na&shy;tion&shy;al&shy;ism as re&shy;lated above con&shy;firm, to my mind, this ap&shy;proach. A time has come to get the matter of Afri&shy;can na&shy;tion&shy;al&shy;ism in its true per&shy;spec&shy;tive. It is in fact a con&shy;cept which is dan&shy;ger&shy;ous to those ideals which anar&shy;chists hold dear. I have lost all pa&shy;tience with pacif&shy;ists who sup&shy;port the {{qq|non-<wbr>violent}} {{w|Kenneth Kaunda|Kenneth_Kaunda}} and greet the slaugh&shy;ter of 300 Afri&shy;cans by Kaunda{{s}} {{p|319}}Gov&shy;ern&shy;ment with si&shy;lence. No amount of double-<wbr>talk can just&shy;ify the per&shy;son who mouths words about fair play and turns a blind eye to the brutal and cruel treat&shy;ment meted out by Afri&shy;cans to other Afri&shy;cans who op&shy;pose them.
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 {{tab}}In Septem&shy;ber 1963 I left Britain to teach at the High&shy;field Com&shy;mun&shy;ity School. A re&shy;turn to Living&shy;stonia was evid&shy;ent in the fact that a trustee of the school, Sir {{w|Robert Tred&shy;gold|Robert_Clarkson_Tredgold}} is re&shy;lated to Living&shy;stone. It was not my first visit to Rhod&shy;esia, those inter&shy;ested in my earlier ex&shy;peri&shy;ences with the {{w|North&shy;ern Rhod&shy;esia|Northern_Rhodesia}} Gov&shy;ern&shy;ment can find them re&shy;lated in the {{qq|Uni&shy;vers&shy;ity Liber&shy;tarian}} No. 11.
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 {{tab}}Sedg&shy;wick<!-- 'Sedgewick' in original -->, as can be seen, was a rather senti&shy;mental Chris&shy;tian and his at&shy;ti&shy;tude was a trifle ex&shy;alted but when Living&shy;stone{{s}} {{qq|{{l|Lec&shy;tures|https://archive.org/details/cambridgelecture00liviuoft/page/n5}}}} were pub&shy;lished and Sedg&shy;wick<!-- 'Sedgewick' in original --> wrote the {{l|pre&shy;face|https://archive.org/details/cambridgelecture00liviuoft/page/n47}} the auth&shy;ors of his bio&shy;graphy write that {{qq|prob&shy;ably no&shy;thing con&shy;trib&shy;uted more di&shy;rectly to the estab&shy;lish&shy;ment of the {{w|Uni&shy;vers&shy;it&shy;ies Mis&shy;sion to Cen&shy;tral Africa|Universities'_Mission_to_Central_Africa}} than this short essay.}}
-{{tab}}Writ&shy;ing of the Living&shy;ston&shy;ian trad&shy;i&shy;tion in {{w|Cen&shy;tral Africa|Federation_of_Rhodesia_and_Nyasaland}} {{l|Patrick Keat&shy;ley|https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/12/broadcasting.pressandpublishing}}<ref><font size="2">{{l|''The Polit&shy;ics of Part&shy;ner&shy;ship''|https://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-of-partnership/oclc/1377713}} by {{l|{{popup|Patrick Keat&shy;ley|Patrick Crawford Keatley, British journalist (1920‒2005)}}|https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/12/broadcasting.pressandpublishing}} (Pelican).</font></ref> men&shy;tions the two {{w|em&shy;pire build&shy;ers|Empire-building}} of {{w|Rhod&shy;esia|Rhodesia}}, {{w|Cecil Rhodes|Cecil_Rhodes}} who {{qq|built with money and mil&shy;it&shy;ary power}} and David Living&shy;stone who {{qq|built his empire in the abid&shy;ing al&shy;le&shy;gian&shy;ces of men.}} Keat&shy;ley quotes an old Afri&shy;can friend of Living&shy;stone{{s}} who wrote of Living&shy;stone {{p|316}}as a person who {{qq|treated black men as brothers}} and whose {{qq|words were al&shy;ways gentle and man&shy;ners kind, and who knew the way to the hearts of men.}}
+{{tab}}Writ&shy;ing of the Living&shy;ston&shy;ian trad&shy;i&shy;tion in {{w|Cen&shy;tral Africa|Federation_of_Rhodesia_and_Nyasaland}} {{l|Patrick Keat&shy;ley|https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/12/broadcasting.pressandpublishing}}<ref><font size="2">{{l|''The Polit&shy;ics of Part&shy;ner&shy;ship''|https://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-of-partnership/oclc/1377713}} by {{l|{{popup|Patrick Keat&shy;ley|Patrick Crawford Keatley, British journalist (1920‒2005)}}|https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/12/broadcasting.pressandpublishing}} (Pelican).</font></ref> men&shy;tions the two {{w|em&shy;pire build&shy;ers|Empire-building}} of {{w|Rhod&shy;esia|Rhodesia_(region)}}, {{w|Cecil Rhodes|Cecil_Rhodes}} who {{qq|built with money and mil&shy;it&shy;ary power}} and David Living&shy;stone who {{qq|built his empire in the abid&shy;ing al&shy;le&shy;gian&shy;ces of men.}} Keat&shy;ley quotes an old Afri&shy;can friend of Living&shy;stone{{s}} who wrote of Living&shy;stone {{p|316}}as a person who {{qq|treated black men as brothers}} and whose {{qq|words were al&shy;ways gentle and man&shy;ners kind, and who knew the way to the hearts of all men.}}
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