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'''Pan-Africanism''' is an [[Anti-colonialism|anti-colonial]] movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diaspora ethnic groups of African descent. Based on a common goal dating back to the [[Atlantic slave trade]], the movement extends beyond continental Africans with a substantial support base among the [[African diaspora in the Americas]] and [[Afro-European|Europe]].<ref>{{Citation|author=David Austin|title=All Roads Led to Montreal: Black Power, the Caribbean and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada|journal=Journal of African American History|date=Fall 2007|volume=92|issue=4|pages=516–539|doi=10.1086/JAAHv92n4p516|s2cid=140509880}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|author=Omotayo Oloruntoba-Oju|title=Pan Africanism, Myth and History in African and Caribbean Drama|publisher=[[Journal of Pan African Studies]]|volume=5|number=8|date=December 2012|pages=190 ff|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-316072934/pan-africanism-myth-and-history-in-african-and-caribbean}}</ref> Pan-Africanism advocates for the unification of Africa under a [[Socialism|socialist]] government against [[colonialism]] and [[neocolonialism]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[All African People's Revolutionary Party]]|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]|title=What is Nkrumahism-Touréism?|date=2022-09-28|url=https://blackagendareport.com/what-nkrumahism-toureism|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928170700/https://blackagendareport.com/what-nkrumahism-toureism|archive-date=2022-09-28|retrieved=2022-09-29}}</ref>
'''Pan-Africanism''' is an [[Anti-colonialism|anti-colonial]] movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diaspora ethnic groups of African descent. Pan-Africanism can be as broad as mere cooperation among Africans and as specific as the unification of Africa under a union government.


Pan-Africanism can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonization<ref>[[Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem|Abdul-Raheem, Tajudeen]], ''Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty-first Century''.</ref> and this struggle may be traced back to the first resistance on slave ships—rebellions and suicides—through the constant plantation and colonial uprisings and the [[Back-to-Africa movement|"Back to Africa" movements]] of the 19th century. Based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social and political progress and aims to "unify and uplift" people of African descent.<ref>Frick, Janari, et al. (2006), [https://books.google.com/books?id=_UA27TyBO0kC&pg=PA235 ''History: Learner's Book''], p. 235, South Africa: New Africa Books.</ref>
In May 2013, the [[African Union (AU)]] held its 20th summit, for which is defined Pan-Africanism in that issue of the ''Echo'' as follows<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=Hakim Adi|year=2018|title=Pan-Africanism: A History|page=1-3|city=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|lg=http://library.lol/main/281DB79D7E9036AC23417C3BA5360E40}}</ref>:<blockquote>"As defined Pan-Africanism is an ideology and movement that encouraged the solidarity of Africans worldwide. It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social and political progress and aims to ‘unify and uplift’ people of African descent. The ideology asserts that the fates of all African peoples and countries are intertwined. At its core, Pan-Africanism is ‘a belief that African peoples both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny."</blockquote>Most writers agree that the phenomenon emerged in the modern period (albeit some contend it has ancient roots and is only given a formulated concrete expression with the rise enslavement and colonialism)<ref>{{Citation|author=John Henrik Clarke|year=1988|title=Pan-Africanism : A Brief History of An Idea In the African World|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24351577|publisher=Présence Africaine, Nouvelle série, No. 145, 22-56|doi=10.2307/24351577 }}</ref> and is concerned with the social, economic, cultural and political emancipation of African peoples on the African continent and in the African diaspora.<ref name=":0" />


At its core, Pan-Africanism is a belief that "African people, both on the continent and in the [[African Diaspora|diaspora]], share not merely a common history, but a common destiny".<ref>Makalani, Minkah (2011), [http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-pan-africanism.html "Pan-Africanism"]. ''Africana Age''.</ref> Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" and sharing cultural unity. Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in America, West Indies and on the continent itself centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery and European imperialism.<ref>{{Citation|title=New Dictionary of the History of Ideas|publisher=The Gale Group, Inc.|year=2005}}</ref>
Central to the development of Pan-African thinking and action was the creation of the modern African diaspora, resulting from the trafficking of enslaved Africans. Pan-Africanism as a developing line of thought can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonization via slave rebellions etc. and the [[Back-to-Africa movement|"Back to Africa" movements]] of the 19th century.<ref>{{Citation|author=Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem|year=1996|title=Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty-first Century|chapter=Introduction: Reclaiming Africa for Africans- Pan Africanism: 1900-1994|page=1-25|city=London|publisher=Pluto Press}}</ref> This idea was given concrete early expression by early abolitionists, but especially by figures such as [[Martin Robinson Delany]], [[James Africanus Horton]] and [[Edward Wilmot Blyden]]<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=Hakim Adi|year=2018|title=Pan-Africanism: A History|chapter=The forerunners|section=|page=12-16|city=London|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|lg=http://library.lol/main/281DB79D7E9036AC23417C3BA5360E40}}</ref> etc, and in the development of [[Ethiopianism]]. "Ethiopia" via its reference to a bible verse came to be used as a synonym for Africa or black people,  first used in print by [[Prince Hall]] in 1797, out of which later (starting 1829 via [[Robert Alexander Young]]) the ideological current/movement of Ethiopianism developed.<ref name=":1" />  


The [[Organization of African Unity]] (now the [[African Union]]) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the [[United Nations]].<ref>[http://www.au.int/en/about/nutshell About the African Union] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129055921/http://www.au.int/en/about/nutshell|date=January 29, 2011}}.</ref> The [[African Union Commission]] has its seat in Addis Ababa and the [[Pan-African Parliament]] has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand.<ref>{{Web citation|title=Pan-Africanism|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pan-Africanism|newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=May 24, 2020}}</ref>
Pan-Africanism as an international movement emerged at the latest with the organisation of the [[Pan-African Conference (1900)|Pan-African Conference in 1900]] in London (organised by Henry Sylvester Williams)<ref>{{Citation|author=J. R. Hooker|year=1974|title=The Pan-African Conference 1900|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2934952|page=20|publisher=Transition No. 46, 20-24|doi=10.2307/2934952}}</ref>, and the first [[Pan-African Congress|First Pan-African Congress]] by [[W.E.B. Du Bois]] in 1919.<ref>{{Citation|author=Clarence G. Contee|year=1972|title=Du Bois, the NAACP, and the Pan-African Congress of 1919|title-url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717070|page=13|publisher=The Journal of Negro History, Vol.57, No.1, 13-28|doi=10.2307/2717070}}</ref> W.E.B Du Bois already says in 1897:<blockquote>"If the Negro were to be a factor in the world's history it would be through a Pan-Negro movement."<ref>{{Citation|author=Colin Legum|year=1965|title=Pan-Africanism: A Short Political Guide|chapter=Chapter II: Growth in the Diaspora, 1900-1958|page=24|pdf=http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Books/Legum.S.pdf|city=New York|publisher=Frederick A. Prager, Publiishers|series=Revised Edition}}</ref></blockquote>The [[Organization of African Unity]] (now the [[African Union]]) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the [[United Nations]]. The [[African Union Commission]] has its seat in Addis Ababa, [[Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] and the [[Pan-African Parliament]] has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand, [[South Africa]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Peter Kuyla|newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica|title=Pan-Africanism|date=2023-07-11|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pan-Africanism|retrieved=2023-08-10}}</ref>


== History ==
== History ==
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=== Black Power ===
=== Black Power ===


=== The Formation of the New African Union ===
=== The Formation of the African Union ===
 
== Pan-african thought ==


== Cultural History of Pan-Africanism ==
== Cultural History of Pan-Africanism ==
== The Structure and Function of the African Union ==


== Important Thinkers and (Revolutionary) Leaders ==
== Important Thinkers and (Revolutionary) Leaders ==
Some important thinkers and leaders situated broadly within the Pan-african tradition are listed here as follows<ref>{{Citation|author=Hakim Adi & Maika Sherwood|year=2003|title=Pan-African History: Poltical figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787|city=London|publisher=Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)|lg=http://library.lol/main/E8087913CCB257467BCFC38BB88BFD66}}</ref>:


== The Structure and Function of the African Union ==
* [[Dusé Mohamed Ali]]
* [[Ahmed Ben Bella]]
* [[Edward Wilmot Blyden]]
* [[Amilcar Cabral|Amilcar Lopes Cabral]]
* [[Aimé Césaire]]
* [[Quobna Ottobah Cugoano]]
* [[Constance Cummings-John]]
* [[Martin Robinson Delany]]
* [[Cheikh Anta Diop]]
* [[W.E.B. Du Bois]]
* [[Olaudah Equiano]]
* [[Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe]]
* [[Frantz Fanon]]
* [[Amy Ashwood Garvey]]
* [[Marcus Garvey]]
* [[Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford]]
* [[James Africanus Beale Horton]]
* [[W. Alphaeus Hunton]]
* [[C.L.R. James]]
* [[Claudia Jones]]
* [[Patrice Lumumba|Patrice Émery Lumumba]]
* [[Ras T. Makonnen]]
* [[Malcolm X]]
* [[Nelson Mandela|Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela]]
* [[Harold Moody]]
* [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Jamal Abd al-Nasir [Nasser]]]
* [[Francis Nwia Kofi]]
* [[Kwame Nkrumah]]
* [[Julius Nyerere|Julius Kambarage Nyerere]]
* [[George Padmore]]
* [[Paul Robeson|Paul Leroy Robeson]]
* [[Walter Rodney]]
* [[Léopold Senghor|Léopold Sédar Senghor]]
* [[Ladipo Felix Solanke]]
* [[Ahmed Sékou Touré|Sékou Ahmed Touré]]
* [[I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson]]
* [[Eric Williams]]
* [[Henry Sylvester Williams]]
* [[Modibo Keita]]
* [[Muammar Gaddafi]]
* [[Samora Machel]]
* [[Robert Sobukwe]]
* [[Julius Malema]]


== Contemporary Pan-Africanism and Pan-African Organizations ==
== Contemporary Pan-Africanism and Pan-African Organizations ==
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== References ==
== References ==
[[Category:Pan-Africanism]]

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Pan-Africanism is an anti-colonial movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diaspora ethnic groups of African descent. Pan-Africanism can be as broad as mere cooperation among Africans and as specific as the unification of Africa under a union government.

In May 2013, the African Union (AU) held its 20th summit, for which is defined Pan-Africanism in that issue of the Echo as follows[1]:

"As defined Pan-Africanism is an ideology and movement that encouraged the solidarity of Africans worldwide. It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social and political progress and aims to ‘unify and uplift’ people of African descent. The ideology asserts that the fates of all African peoples and countries are intertwined. At its core, Pan-Africanism is ‘a belief that African peoples both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny."

Most writers agree that the phenomenon emerged in the modern period (albeit some contend it has ancient roots and is only given a formulated concrete expression with the rise enslavement and colonialism)[2] and is concerned with the social, economic, cultural and political emancipation of African peoples on the African continent and in the African diaspora.[1]

Central to the development of Pan-African thinking and action was the creation of the modern African diaspora, resulting from the trafficking of enslaved Africans. Pan-Africanism as a developing line of thought can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonization via slave rebellions etc. and the "Back to Africa" movements of the 19th century.[3] This idea was given concrete early expression by early abolitionists, but especially by figures such as Martin Robinson Delany, James Africanus Horton and Edward Wilmot Blyden[4] etc, and in the development of Ethiopianism. "Ethiopia" via its reference to a bible verse came to be used as a synonym for Africa or black people, first used in print by Prince Hall in 1797, out of which later (starting 1829 via Robert Alexander Young) the ideological current/movement of Ethiopianism developed.[4]

Pan-Africanism as an international movement emerged at the latest with the organisation of the Pan-African Conference in 1900 in London (organised by Henry Sylvester Williams)[5], and the first First Pan-African Congress by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1919.[6] W.E.B Du Bois already says in 1897:

"If the Negro were to be a factor in the world's history it would be through a Pan-Negro movement."[7]

The Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the United Nations. The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand, South Africa.[8]

History[edit | edit source]

Early History of Panafricanism (until 1900)[edit | edit source]

Pan-Africanism and Garveyism[edit | edit source]

Pan-African Congresses and Du Bois[edit | edit source]

Pan-Africanism and Communism[edit | edit source]

Precursors to Negritude and Negritude[edit | edit source]

From the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia to the Manchester Congress (1935-1945)[edit | edit source]

Pan-Africanism between World War II and Decolonization[edit | edit source]

Founding of the Organisation of African Unity[edit | edit source]

Black Power[edit | edit source]

The Formation of the African Union[edit | edit source]

Pan-african thought[edit | edit source]

Cultural History of Pan-Africanism[edit | edit source]

The Structure and Function of the African Union[edit | edit source]

Important Thinkers and (Revolutionary) Leaders[edit | edit source]

Some important thinkers and leaders situated broadly within the Pan-african tradition are listed here as follows[9]:

Contemporary Pan-Africanism and Pan-African Organizations[edit | edit source]

Former Pan-Africanist Organisations[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hakim Adi (2018). Pan-Africanism: A History (pp. 1-3). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [LG]
  2. ↑ John Henrik Clarke (1988). Pan-Africanism : A Brief History of An Idea In the African World. Présence Africaine, Nouvelle série, No. 145, 22-56. doi: 10.2307/24351577  [HUB]
  3. ↑ Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (1996). Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty-first Century: 'Introduction: Reclaiming Africa for Africans- Pan Africanism: 1900-1994' (pp. 1-25). London: Pluto Press.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hakim Adi (2018). Pan-Africanism: A History: 'The forerunners' (pp. 12-16). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [LG]
  5. ↑ J. R. Hooker (1974). The Pan-African Conference 1900 (p. 20). Transition No. 46, 20-24. doi: 10.2307/2934952 [HUB]
  6. ↑ Clarence G. Contee (1972). Du Bois, the NAACP, and the Pan-African Congress of 1919 (p. 13). The Journal of Negro History, Vol.57, No.1, 13-28. doi: 10.2307/2717070 [HUB]
  7. ↑ Colin Legum (1965). Pan-Africanism: A Short Political Guide: 'Chapter II: Growth in the Diaspora, 1900-1958' (p. 24). Revised Edition. [PDF] New York: Frederick A. Prager, Publiishers.
  8. ↑ Peter Kuyla (2023-07-11). "Pan-Africanism" Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  9. ↑ Hakim Adi & Maika Sherwood (2003). Pan-African History: Poltical figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). [LG]
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