Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century
“The establishment of the African Union exemplifies how the Pan-African ideology is widely accepted but is yet to be put into practice. Because of this, putting it into practice also poses a threat to state sovereignty and the political survival of African heads of states.”
“The same issues that concerned the Pan-African movements are still the same issues disrupting continental and national progress in Africa, hence, making it as relevant as it was over 50 years ago, to present-day Africa. Although the idea of Pan-Africanism and what it truly means as it was conceived five decades ago might be deemed as an old-fashioned or overromanticized approach in realizing and bolstering continental unity in Africa, by enabling the concept in its full competence without any limitations or reducing it to merely an economic project, and also incorporating it as a political agenda (demanding for political unification), Africa and Africans will reap tremendous benefits.”
“By reifying the political and economic union of the continent, the advantages comprise of, inter alia; having hegemony over continental economic and political development without the influence of external parties – concurrently eliminating the influence of neocolonialism in the guise of globalization, increased continental free trade, the dissolving of political borders, freedom of movement with the enforcement of the African passport.”
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