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Pan-Africanism
Contents
Origins
Concept
Key figures in Pan-Africanism
Pan-African banner
Maafa studies
Political parties and organizations
Africa-based
Barbados
British-based
US-based
Pan-African concepts and philosophies
Afrocentric Pan-Africanism
Kawaida
Hip Hop
Pan-African art
See also
Literature
References
External links

Content: Contents
1 Origins
2 Concept
3 Key figures in Pan-Africanism
4 Pan-African banner
5 Maafa studies
6 Political parties and organizations
6.1 Africa-based
6.2 Barbados
6.3 British-based
6.4 US-based
7 Pan-African concepts and philosophies
7.1 Afrocentric Pan-Africanism
7.2 Kawaida
7.3 Hip Hop
8 Pan-African art
9 See also
10 Literature
11 References
12 External links
Origins
In the United States, the term is closely associated with Afrocentrism, an ideology of African American identity politics that emerged during the civil rights movement of the 1960s to 1970s. " Pan-African" unity is especially important in African-American identity politics, because the African ancestry of Afro-American community cannot be derived from any identifiable African people. Therefore it has become necessary to minimize the differences between the various peoples of Africa in favour of a generalized "African" heritage. As a philosophy, Pan-Africanism represents the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan-Africanism as an ethical system traces its origins from ancient times, and promotes values that are the product of the African civilization and the struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. Pan-Africanism can be seen as a product of the European slave trade. Enslaved Africans of diverse origins and their descendants found themselves embedded in a system of exploitation where their African origin became a sign of their servile status. Pan-Africanism set aside cultural differences, asserting the principality of these shared experiences to foster solidarity and resistance to exploitation. [ citation needed]
Alongside a large number of slave insurrections, by the end of the eighteenth century a political movement developed across the Americas, Europe and Africa which sought to weld these disparate movements into a network of solidarity putting an end to this oppression. In London, the Sons of Africa was a political group addressed by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano in the 1791 edition of his book Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery.