pan-Africanism
Diaspora 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. (Standard capitalization is Pan-Africanism.)
Wholeness through cohesion
- solidarityUnity among allies
- liberationRelease from constraint
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
sovereignty · anticolonialism · emancipation · consciousness · empowerment · independence · self-reliance · autonomy
Inherited cultural legacy
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- languagesSystems of human communication
- artHuman creative expression
- musicOrganized auditory art
literature · ubuntu · spirituality · cosmology · aesthetics · folklore · oral tradition · drumming
Formal return to homeland
- LiberiaWest African coastal republic
- Sierra LeoneWest African country, capital Freetown
- African AmericansAmericans of African descent
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
Rastafari · motherland · homecoming · roots · Middle Passage · slavery · return · reconnection
Continental intergovernmental organization
- integrationCombining into a whole
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
- regional cooperationNearby areas collaborating jointly
- common marketIntegrated trading zone
free movement · economic community · political union · collective security · infrastructure · development · Addis Ababa · intergovernmental
- TubmanAbolitionist and freedom guide
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
unity
Wholeness through cohesion
- solidarityUnity among allies
- liberationRelease from constraint
- decolonizationEnding imperial control
self-determination · sovereignty · anticolonialism · emancipation · consciousness · empowerment · independence · self-reliance · autonomy · resistance
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- languagesSystems of human communication
- artHuman creative expression
music · literature · ubuntu · spirituality · cosmology · aesthetics · folklore · oral tradition · drumming · textiles
repatriation
Formal return to homeland
- LiberiaWest African coastal republic
- Sierra LeoneWest African country, capital Freetown
- African AmericansAmericans of African descent
Caribbean · Rastafari · motherland · homecoming · roots · Middle Passage · slavery · return · reconnection · heritage
African Union
Continental intergovernmental organization
- integrationCombining into a whole
- federationUnion of semi-autonomous states
- regional cooperationNearby areas collaborating jointly
common market · free movement · economic community · political union · collective security · infrastructure · development · Addis Ababa · intergovernmental · member states
Du Bois
- TubmanAbolitionist and freedom guide
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- CaribbeanJamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
- African historyNubia, Dahomey, Oyo Empire, Scramble for Africa, scramble for Africa
- African studiesAfrican history, African culture, African languages, African literature, African art
- EthiopiaEthiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopian coffee, regions, birr
- African politicsNigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, apartheid
pan-Africanismethnic nationalism
Nation as extended kinship group
tribalism · balkanization · nationalism · separatism · secessionism
pan-Africanismwhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
colonialism · apartheid · Eurocentrism · white nationalism · racial segregation
pan-Africanismcolonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
imperialism · neocolonialism · European imperialism · white supremacy · apartheid
Africans, Afrocentrism, Afrocentric, non-African, Africanized, Africanism