Global Africana Review
Volume 3
Spring 2019
General Information
Global Africana Review is an undergraduate journal that is published yearly in the spring by the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies. All material is copyrighted. Written permission must be obtained from the editors before copying or reprinting figures or more than 500 words of text. Submissions for each volume are chosen by the journal’s Executive Editor and Advisory Board and go through a review process before publication. Each author is responsible for any omissions or errors in their article.
Global Africana Review
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies 104 Battle Hall, CB# 3395
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Chair’s Note
I am very delighted to launch Volume 3 of our annual undergraduate research journal: Global Africana Review (GAR). Special thanks to the students who made this volume possible and their faculty mentors. Further, thanks to Rebekah Kati and Julie Renee Rudder of Davis Library and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for supporting the publication of this journal.
Eunice N. Sahle, PhD, FAAS
Editorial Team: Global Africana Review, Volume 3, Spring 2019
Founding Editor
Eunice N. Sahle, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Executive Editor
Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Managing Editor
Angela R. Pietrobon, angelapietrobon.com
Editorial Assistant
Morgan Oddie, Queen’s University
Cover Designer
Stephanie R. Fore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Layout Designer
Robert Pietrobon, robertpietrobon.com
Advisory Board
Contributors: Global Africana Review, Volume 3, Spring 2019
Executive Editor Bio
Charlene Regester is an Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American,
and Diaspora Studies, and Faculty Affiliate with the Global Cinema Studies Minor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010; nominated for an NAACP Image Award). Regester also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Film and Video and Choice Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Author Bios
Angum Check is a Cameroonian immigrant raised in Prince Georges County, Maryland. She is
a senior studying Philosophy and African Studies with a minor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), an interdisciplinary study with Duke University. Check is the co-founder of Black Congress, a non-university affiliated organization that promotes Black Liberation through educational and community-focused means. Check is also the co-founder and director of Magik G.L.O.W. (Girls Learning and Owning their Worth), a mentorship program for Black girls at McDougle Middle School. Check hopes to be a civil rights lawyer and one day open her own clinic to serve marginalized communities directly.
Bailey Nelson is a graduating senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is
double majoring in Business Administration and African, African American and Diaspora Studies as well as minoring in History. She will be attending the Master of Accounting Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School starting this summer.
Alexander Peeples is a May 2018 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. While at UNC, his academic
focus was on African efforts to reorient discourses of rights and development toward the particular needs of African communities. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Law in International Justice at Maynooth University as a Mitchell Scholar, while working at the Irish Council on Civil Liberties.
Kevyn Robinson is a senior student from Charlotte, North Carolina, majoring in
African-American and Diaspora Studies and Art History. In her free time, she enjoys reading, writing, and working on short films.
André E. Tyson is a rising senior from Ansonville, North Carolina, pursuing a double major in
Table of Contents
General Information ... ii
Chair’s Note ... iii
Editorial Team ... iv
Contributors ... v
Introduction ... 1
Charlene Regester Migration Management Within Security and Development Narratives: A Case Study of Bilateral Relations between Senegal and the European Union ... 2
Emily Venturi More than Your Average Lawyer: Beyond the Call of Duty ... 11
Bailey Nelson Women’s Works: The Evolution of Tanzanian Women’s Movements from Late Colonialism to Post-Structural Adjustment ... 21
Alexander Peeples The Power of Solidarity: Anti-Apartheid Activism on US Campuses and at UNC-Chapel Hill . 32 Angum Check Review of Racquel Gates’ Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture ... 44
André E. Tyson Review of Adam Ewing’s The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics ... 47