Title: Pan-Africanism : - WHY HAS PAN AFRICANISM FAILED TO DELIVER | Black Discussion Forum
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WHY HAS PAN AFRICANISM FAILED TO DELIVER

Pan-Africanism : WHY HAS PAN AFRICANISM FAILED TO DELIVER
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Omowale Jabali
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Content: Sadly ALMOST a hundred years after the first Pan-African Conference, it has failured to do any of this things. Pan-Africanism - aims at African unity first and foremost. But yet it has failured to prevent African states remaining economically dependent on Western metropolitan structures. Most of our Ideally Pan african leaders are merely servants,icons of the social
group they stand for.we end up hating
Those who are leader-oriented equate, for instance, Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's Chimurenga. This implies the need to rubbish all Zimbabweans who feel that Mugabe no longer speaks for them: " They are brainwhitewashed, ungrateful, treacherous and deserve being disciplined." Pan african leaders made the mistake of thinking Attainment of independence was an end in itself. There was failure to see that while the colour of those in power had changed, those who took over the reins were still human like their predecessors. Omowale Jabali
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The Pan African movement was largely anti-Colonial and now there does not seem to be much collective effort in eradicating neo-colonialism as crisis has become more localized. Building A Global e-Networking Community Focusing on Black Genealogy/Family History and the Cultural/Spiritual Traditions of African people worldwide.