ABSTRACT
The British prime minister Harold Macmillan gave a famous speech to the all-white South African parliament in February 1960, in which he declared that there was a wind of African consciousness blowing across the African continent which Europeans in Europe and in the diaspora (i.e., the white settlers in Africa) must recognize for what it was. Macmillan was raising an intriguing point: If colonization was good for Africans as the Europeans had been contending all along, why then did some Africans have to take up arms to fight for their freedom? Where did this political consciousness come from?
