Pan-Africanism and Political Economy: Conceptions and the African Search for Development
This dissertation analyzes the different pan-African conceptions about the political economy of African development, in order to draw a definition of what would be “economic panAfricanism”. To this end, it initially investigates the role and thinking of different pan-African leaders and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA / CEA, created in 1958) in the materialization of one of the ideological pillars of pan-Africanism: integration . Finally, it seeks to interpret how the thinking of the Bissau-Guinean economist and sociologist Carlos Lopes - one of the main African intellectuals of today - may (or may not) be inserted in this intellectual tradition (“economic pan-Africanism”). To this end, bibliographic reviews will be carried out on the perspective of some Pan-Africanist African intellectuals (continental and diasporic) on the subject, bring a definition of this economic pan-Africanism, and carry out an analysis of the works and the political-intellectual performance of Carlos Lopes.