As Ghanian President and Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once famously stated, ‘Pan-Africanism or perish!’
When Pan-Africanists talk about the need to fight for a unified Pan-African state with a single government and universal citizenship for all Africans, we are often told that we are not being realistic. But, let’s slow down and think about it.
Nowhere in the world is the desire for continent-wide unity greater than on the African continent, as Kwame Ture remarks in this clip. Every country you go to in Africa, you can meet Pan-Africanists. Ture, a founding member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, was born in Trinidad and organised in the United States before moving to Africa.
The masses understand that, after 500 years of enslavement, kidnapping, colonialism, theft, genocide, terrorism and neo-colonialism, the only way we can build a new future is if Africans across the world come together as one.
What do you think of Ture’s remarks? Let us know in the comments.
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The supposedly “inaudible” name is Major (John Major) who was UK PM when Ture made this speech.
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I’m more of an African anarchist so I don’t believe in creating a singular centralized nation-state, i would love nationhood without a nation-state just people united in making Africa great again that’s all, i guess that’s what Pan-Africanism means to me but again what do I know anyways