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127 Years of Pan-Africanism: Will Africa Ever Unite?

Pan Africanism (Across Africa) is a belief that people from Africa and their descendants should be united after being captured into slavery and used like they are not humans.  Since 1897 this movement for a United Africa has created several movements in the the United States of America spreading across continents and landing in Africa […]

Origin of Pan-Africanism

The modern conception of Pan-Africanism, if not the term itself, dates from at least the mid-nineteenth-century. The slogan, “Africa for the Africans,” popularized by Marcus Garvey’s (1887–1940) Declaration of Negro Rights in 1920, may have originated in West Africa, probably Sierra Leone, around this time. Pan-Africanist ideas first began to circulate in the mid-19th century […]