omowalejabali said:
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.
Today i belive pan africanism has change in to a economic activity.
It is in this area of economic activity that Pan-African integration has promised and disappointed in equally large measure.
What i don't understand is what does Pan-Africanism stand for today ?
It looks like everyone has they own definition of what it stand for or what it should stand for
On the continent and in the diaspora the definition of Pan-Africanism is therefore the subject of a new contestation. Will it be for the people or at their expense?
Pan-Africanist orientation has to adjust with changing times.
Although many of you may clam to be Pan-Africanist, We still have a lack of Pan-Africanist solidarity.
We have not been able to organize a sense of direction from inside using our own intellectual resources and our own sense of destiny, of history.
It is a lack of organization of pan africanist that has left African unity a theme
since 1900 and has continued to be the theme of countless meetings and conferences organized by the OAU and other bodies.
Africa and Africans are very far from the goal of unity, Not only is Africa very far from unity on any front, it is today the most marginal, the most oppressed, the most exploited, the most poverty-stricken, the most debt-ridden, the most unstable, and the most denigrated continent in the world. Africa has more than half of the world's refugees, and it is the least industrialized of all the developing regions
Lets stop talking like we have moved forward.
PAN AFRICANISM today has nothing to show for,Africa is still Oppression, criminal human rights abuses, the lack of opportunities, discrimination on the basis of ethnic, racial, regional and religious considerations, ruthless exploitation of the already impoverished, wars, instability, corruption, maniacal leadership, illiteracy, dilapidated institutions, roads full of pot holes, hunger, disease, and disillusionment characterize the African socio-political landscape.
lets start asking if pan africanism can solve this problems, and if so were will it start and how will it deal with them ?