Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism be a nationalist movement wey dey aim make dem encourage den strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples den diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal wey dey date back to de Atlantic slave trade, de Trans-Saharan slave trade, de Indian Ocean slave trade, de Red Sea slave trade,  slavery insyd de Cape Colony (now South Africa), along plus slavery insyd Mauritius, de movement dey extend beyond continental Africans plus a substantial support base among de African diaspora insyd de Americas den Europe.

Na dem say Pan-Africanism get ein origins insyd de struggles of de African people against enslavement den colonizationAbdul-Raheem, Tajudeen (ed.), Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty-first Century, New York University Press, 1996. wey na dis struggle fi be traced back to de first resistance on slave ships—rebellions den suicides—thru de constant plantation den colonial uprisings den de "Back to Africa" movements of de 19th century. Based on de belief say unity be vital to economic, social, den political progress, e dey aim to unify den uplift people of African ancestry.Frick, Janari, et al. (2006), History: Learner's Book, p. 235, South Africa: New Africa Books.

At ein core, pan-Africanism be a belief dat "African people, both on de continent den insyd de diaspora, dem no dey share merely a common history, buh a common destiny." Pan-Africanism dey posit a sense of a shared historical fate give Africans insyd de Americas, de West Indies, den on de continent, na einself center on de Atlantic trade insyd slaves, African slavery, den European imperialism.

Na Pan-African thought influence de establishment of de Organisation of African Unity (since be succeeded by de African Union) insyd 1963."AU in a Nutshell", African Union. (Archived January 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine). De African Union Commission get ein seat insyd Addis Ababa den de Pan-African Parliament get ein seat insyd Midrand, Johannesburg.

 Overview 
Pan-Africanism dey stress de need for "collective self-reliance"."The objectives of the PAP", The Pan-African Parliament – 2014 and beyond. Pan-Africanism dey exist as a governmental den grassroots objective. Pan-African advocates dey include leaders such as Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe, François Duvalier, Aimé Césaire, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Patrice Lumumba, Julius Nyerere, Robert Sobukwe, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Kwame Nkrumah, King Sobhuza II, Robert Mugabe, Thomas Sankara, Kwame Ture, Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, Muammar Gaddafi, Walter Rodney, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, grassroots organizers such as Joseph Robert Love, Marcus Garvey, den Malcolm X, academics such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Anténor Firmin den odas insyd de diaspora.Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis, pp. 250–278.Maguire, K., "Ghana re-evaluates Nkrumah", GlobalPost, October 21, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2012. Na Pan-Africanists believe say solidarity go enable de continent make e fulfil ein potential to independently provide for all ein people. Crucially, an all-African alliance go empower African people globally.

De realization of de pan-African objective go lead to "power consolidation insyd Africa", wich na "go compel a reallocation of global resources, as well as unleashing a fiercer psychological energy den political assertion ... wey na go unsettle social den political (power) structures...insyd de Americas".Agyeman, O., Pan-Africanism and Its Detractors: A Response to Harvard's Race Effacing Universalists, Harvard University Press (1998), cited in Mawere, Munyaradzi; Tapuwa R. Mubaya, African Philosophy and Thought Systems: A Search for a Culture and Philosophy of Belonging, Langaa RPCIG (2016), p. 89. . Retrieved August 23, 2018.

People wey dey support pan-Africanism—dem dey call dem 'pan-Africans' or 'pan-Africanists'—dem sabi dey push socialist way and no dey really like make outside people control our politics and money matter for Africa. Some people they talk say this ideology dey make everybody life look alike, no be true for all wey get African blood. Dem sef dey talk say e no easy to join all di current divisions wey de happen for different countries and communities wey dey outside Africa.

 History 

Jamaican Marcus Garvey in a military uniform as the "Provisional President of Africa" during a parade on the opening day of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City, 1922

As a philosophy, pan-Africanism dey represent de aggregation of de historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific, den philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to de present. Pan-Africanism as an ethical system dey trace ein origins from ancient times, den dey promote values wey be de product of de African civilisations den de struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, den neocolonialism.

Dey coincide plus chaw New World slave insurrections (hallmark by de Haitian Revolution), na de end of de 19th century birth an intercontinental pro-African political movement wey seek make e unify disparate campaigns insyd de goal to end oppression. Na e be diasporic Africans dema removal from de continent wey enable dem make dem view am as a whole.Reid, Richard; Parker, John (October 1, 2013), Parker, John; Reid, Richard (eds.), "Introduction African Histories: Past, Present, and Future", The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History, Oxford University Press, p. 0, ISBN 978-0-19-957247-2, retrieved January 26, 2025

Important women insyd pan-Africanism
Na Pan-Africanism see de contribution of chaw female African activists thru out ein lifespan, despite de systemic lack of attention dem pay to dem by scholars den male pan-Africanist alike.

 Amy Jacques Garvey, wey found de international newspaper Negro World.
 Na Claudia Jones be anoda pan-Africanist. In order to fight against racism towards black people insyd Britain, na Jones set up de West Indian Gazette.
 Insyd de United States, na Audley Moore den Dara Abubakari play a vital role in developing Pan-African thought.
 Peggy Antrobus
 Na dem born Alice Victoria Alexander Kinloch insyd 1863 insyd Cape Town, South Africa, before na ein family move to Kimberley.
 Na Jeanne Martin Cissé be instrumental insyd de independence of Guinea.
 Na dem born Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (FRK) insyd 1900 wey na she study insyd England insyd 1922.

Political parties den organizations
Insyd Africa
 Formal political bodies 
 Organisation of African Unity, wey de African Union succeed am
 Pan-African Parliament, African Union

Political groups den organizations
 African Unification Front
 Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, defunct
 All-African People's Revolutionary Party
 Pan-African Women's Organization
 All Africa Conference of Churches (Kenya)
 All-African Trade Union Federation, defunct
 Convention People's Party (Ghana)
 African National Congress (South Africa)

 Insyd de Caribbean 

 De Pan-African Affairs Commission for Pan-African Affairs, a unit within de Office of de Prime Minister of Barbados.
 African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa, defunct (Guyana)
 Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement (Antigua den Barbuda)
 Clement Payne Movement (Barbados)
 Marcus Garvey People's Political Party (Jamaica)
 Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (Jamaica)

 Insyd Europe 

 Pan-African Federation (United Kingdom), defunct
 Pan-African Women's Association (Norway)Pan African Women Association.

 Insyd de United States 

 De Council on African Affairs (CAA): dem found insyd 1937 by Max Yergan den Paul Robeson.Duberman, Martin. Paul Robeson, 1989, pp. 296–97.

 Na dem found de US Organization insyd 1965 by Maulana Karenga, dey follow de Watts riots.

 TransAfrica be a non-profit organization dem found insyd 1977 by Randall Robinson.

Pan-African concepts den philosophies
Maafa studies
Afrocentric pan-Africanism
Kawaida
Hip-hop

 Pan-African art den media 

 Les Afriques, a weekly African financial newspaper. E dey claim e be de first pan-African financial newspaper.
 Pan African Writers' Association

 References 

Bibliography

 Kemi Séba, Philosophie de la panafricanité fondamentale – Édition Fiat Lux, 2023  
 Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism: A History. London: Bloomsbury, 2018
 Hakim Adi & Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787, London: Routledge, 2003
 Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, 
 Imanuel Geiss, Panafrikanismus. Zur Geschichte der Dekolonisation. Habilitation, EVA, Frankfurt am Main, 1968, English as: The Pan-African Movement, London: Methuen, 1974, , and as: The Pan-African Movement. A history of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa, New York: Africana Publ., 1974, 

 Blain N. Keisha, Asia Leeds, and Ula Y. Taylor, Women, Gender Politics and Pan-Africanism, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2016), pp. 139–145
 Colin Legum, Pan-Africanism: A Short Political Guide, revised edition, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1965
 Tony Martin, Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond, Dover: The Majority Press, 1985
 Willie Molesi, Black Africa versus Arab North Africa: The Great Divide, 
 Willie Molesi, Relations Between Africans and Arabs: Harsh Realities, 

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