Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities
Abstract
Pan-Africanism has been one of the responses to the systematic and brutal efforts by colonial powers to negate the worth and humanity of African peoples. Emerging in the Caribbean and the United States in the 19th-century, it flowered with the independence movements of the 20th. Historian Kwame Anthony Appiah defines Pan-Africanism as “a political project calling for the unification of all Africans into a single African state to which those in the African diaspora can return” (Appiah 1992, 174).
Pan-Africanism sought to heal the catastrophic ruptures of slavery, throw off the shackles of colonialism, and to fight the racist ideologies that underpinned both. The leaders who shaped this movement were brilliant in their vision and determined in their execution, even as they came up against formidable, entrenched obstacles built up over resistance and oppression.
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Preston, Adisa
(2025)
"Sankofa in Action: Reclaiming Our Future,"
Tapestries: Interwoven voices of local and global identities: Vol. 14:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/tapestries/vol14/iss1/8
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