A Critical Reappraisal of Pan-Africanism: A Quest for SupraState Formation and Authentic Development in Africa

Abstract

As philosophy and ideology, pan-African nationalism incorporates the political, historical, cultural, spiritual, and scientific legacies of African people and the “diaspora ” . Pan-Africanism is also a cultural and political movement which promotes moral values, social norms, traditional principles, and customary laws that are the product of the ancient African civilizations. Moreover, pan-Africanism as a system has struggled against slavery, racism, colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonialism. Major actors of the Pan-African movement believed that the African people had brought peace and survived long until the coming of European colonizers by the help of these traditional moral values and customary laws.