Pan_Africanism

Pan Africanism Pan Africanism is various movements in Africa that have as their common goal the unity of Africans and the elimination of colonialism and white supremacy from the continent. However, on the scope and meaning of Pan-Africanism, including such matters as leadership, political orientation, and national as opposed to regional interests, they are widely, often bitterly, divided. One catalyst for the rapid and widespread development of Pan-Africanism was the colonization of the continent by European powers in the late 19th cent. The First Pan-African Congress, convened in London in 1900, was followed by others in Paris (1919), London and Brussels (1921), London and Lisbon (1923), and New York City (1927). These congresses organized chiefly by W. E. B. DuBois and attended by the North American and West Indian black intelligentsia, did not propose immediate African independence; they favored gradual self-government and interracialism. In 1944, several African organizations in London joined to form the Pan-African Federation, which for the african, states, pan-africanism, london, pan-african, independence, first, congress, west, union, political, organization, nkrumah, national, manchester, malagasy, including, ghana, federation, convened, continent, common, africa, 1961, york, widespread, widely, white, while, wallace, various, unity, united, togo, time