Title: Sobukwe's pan-Africanist dream: an elusive idea that refuses to die
Headings: Sobukwe’s
pan-Africanist
dream: an elusive idea that refuses to die

Sobukwe’s pan-Africanist dream: an elusive idea that refuses to die
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The fathers of pan-Africanism
Africa for the African race and black men to rule them
So what is it?
guides and seeks to connect the actions of millions of persons towards specific and definite goals.
Is Africa really for Africans?
mutual and reciprocal surrender of sovereignty among states on the basis of common interest and free popular consent.
Securing African future a pan-African way
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Content: This suggests that the African Union and African Parliament are used as a means to achieve this rather than pan-Africanism. Most African leaders are stuck in the sovereignty of their nationalism. So are their followers. Burundi’s stand against the African Union’s decision to deploy peacekeepers is a case in point. Pan-Africanism is pitted against nationalism. This makes Africa weak and vulnerable. It gives way for “a continuity of preoccupation”. As the decoloniality scholar Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni explains, the colonial matrices of power continue
to exist in the minds, lives, languages, dreams, imagination, and epistemologies of modern subjects in Africa and the entire global South. For Africa to be for Africans, pan-Africanism should be a lived experience, not an ideological project for political rhetoric. A body of pan-African thought exists.