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 […]
