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: According to Nkrumah, it “performs ideological function when it takes shape as political philosophy”, laying “down certain ideals for our pursuit and fortification”, and becoming “an instrument of unity by laying down the same ideals for all the members of a given society”. After decades of decolonisation, an inevitable question is whether a desired social, economic and political order as envisaged in pan-Africanism has been realised. Is Africa really for Africans? Africa is a construct of colonial imagination, which the 1885 Berlin conference perfected in the resolution to balkanise her for imperial ends. This destroyed “the cultural and linguistic boundaries established by the indigenous African population”. Africans became estranged from one another, separating into different nationalities. The Organisation of African Unity was established in 1963 to foster unity and solidarity. But it did not deconstruct the Berlin conference stratagem of continued domination of the continent. Its focus was on colonial freedom. It did not change the narrative of the scramble for Africa.