Why has pan-Africanism failed to deliver on its promises ?
As we celebrate the rich ideological platform of Pan-Africanism through blood, sweat and struggles of Black men and women.
We must also examine why Pan-Africanism has not yet delivered as the total emancipator of the Africans.
Todays Pan africanism was meant to:feeding the people,creating jobs and strengthening the middle class, prevent conflicts through preemptive or resolution templates,enhancing ecological well-being and preventing uncontrolled spread of plagues.
In my opinion Pan africanism today is different from The first Pan-Africanists or Pan-Negroists were African Americans were fighting racism as well as racially-legitimised colonialism.
Than Pan-Africanism was an adversarial, radical, anti-Western democracy struggle or an anti-white racial program.
Today we see it as a Renaissance movement that focuses on establishing a particularly unified African identity while also positioning for global trade
partnerships, poverty alleviation, qualitative education, superior healthcare deliveries, infrastructure development and maintenance, capacity
development and utilization, scientific and technological development, investment and private sector development in a free market economy.
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.
As we celebrate the rich ideological platform of Pan-Africanism through blood, sweat and struggles of Black men and women.
We must also examine why Pan-Africanism has not yet delivered as the total emancipator of the Africans.
Todays Pan africanism was meant to:feeding the people,creating jobs and strengthening the middle class, prevent conflicts through preemptive or resolution templates,enhancing ecological well-being and preventing uncontrolled spread of plagues.
In my opinion Pan africanism today is different from The first Pan-Africanists or Pan-Negroists were African Americans were fighting racism as well as racially-legitimised colonialism.
Than Pan-Africanism was an adversarial, radical, anti-Western democracy struggle or an anti-white racial program.
Today we see it as a Renaissance movement that focuses on establishing a particularly unified African identity while also positioning for global trade
partnerships, poverty alleviation, qualitative education, superior healthcare deliveries, infrastructure development and maintenance, capacity
development and utilization, scientific and technological development, investment and private sector development in a free market economy.
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.