Pan-Africanism
African unity movement
Pan-Africanism is a movement and ideology promoting unity, solidarity, and cooperation among people of African descent worldwide.
It emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, advocating for the political and economic empowerment of African nations and the African diaspora.
The movement influenced independence movements across Africa and continues to shape discussions of African identity and development: Pan-Africanism was central to the formation of the African Union. (Sometimes written pan-Africanism.)
Devotion to one's country
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- anti-colonialismOpposition to foreign domination
- NégritudeAfrican cultural consciousness movement
Interconnected humanity, or its namesake OS
- AfrobeatWest African funk-jazz fusion
- NégritudeAfrican cultural consciousness movement
- AfrofuturismAfrican diaspora speculative movement
- SwahiliBantu language of East Africa
Release from legal bondage
- independenceFreedom from external control
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
decolonization · civil rights · resistance · struggle · revolution · abolitionism · empowerment · activism
Unity among allies
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- sisterhoodBond among women
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
- allianceFormal union of parties
federation · unification · collective security · non-alignment
Inherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- Afro-BrazilianOf African ancestry in Brazil
Afro-Cuban · transatlantic · Middle Passage · roots · Rastafarianism · Liberia · Sierra Leone · maroons
nationalism
Devotion to one's country
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- anti-colonialismOpposition to foreign domination
Négritude · anti-imperialism · postcolonialism · Black Power
Ubuntu
Interconnected humanity, or its namesake OS
- AfrobeatWest African funk-jazz fusion
- NégritudeAfrican cultural consciousness movement
- AfrofuturismAfrican diaspora speculative movement
Marcus Garvey
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- independenceFreedom from external control
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
autonomy · decolonization · civil rights · resistance · struggle · revolution · abolitionism · empowerment · activism · Uhuru
solidarity
Unity among allies
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- sisterhoodBond among women
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
alliance · federation · unification · collective security · non-alignment
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
Afro-Brazilian · Afro-Cuban · transatlantic · Middle Passage · roots · Rastafarianism · Liberia · Sierra Leone · maroons · Gullah
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Algeria
- CaribbeanJamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti
- Black CultureNAACP, HBCUs, Black churches, civil rights movement, Harlem Renaissance
- African politicsNigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, apartheid
- Cultural MovementsRenaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Harlem Renaissance, Enlightenment
- decolonizationanticolonialism, independence movement, independence movements, freedom fighter, anti-colonialism
Pan-Africanismethnic nationalism
Nation as extended kinship group
tribalism · separatism · parochialism · balkanization · sectionalism
Pan-Africanismcolonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
imperialism · neocolonialism · colonial rule · Berlin Conference · European imperialism
Pan-Africanismwhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
apartheid · Eurocentrism · white nationalism · colonialism · racism