YOU ARE WELCOME TO THE PAN AFRICAN CONSIOUSNESS RENAISSANCE

We promote Africa culture,history and consiousness both in Africa and in the diaspora. You can find out a lot of things about African history here from the days of Mansa Musa until the famous Benin Empire. We are here to reawaken the long dead African Consiousness back into reality and we will not stop until we Africans realize and understand our own uniqueness. There are many wonderful things to discover in Africa both from history and even our natural environment. Africa is indeed the origin of everything. From music to art to architecture and mathematics and science but it seems at a stage, like a man suffering from forgetfullness or amnesia we contacted historical amnesia and forgot who we are. We need to re-discover our sense of identity. Corruption and bad leadership has also played a part in putting Africa in dire straits and we will also make mention of it in this site. Pan-Africanism has covered calls for African unity (both as a continent and as a people), nationalism, independence, political and economic cooperation and historical and cultural awareness.
WHAT IS PAN AFRICANISM Pan-Africanism is an ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide. It is based on the beleif that unity is vital to economic, social and political progress and aims to unify and uplift people of African descent.

It is a movement meant to realize and understand the consiousness and identity of Africans. Ever since the era of Ancient Egypt, Africa has been pillaged untill the point where we have lost our identity and consequently, we as Africans are in a psychological, socological, cultural and political trauma that has resulted in all sorts of underdevelopment and it's various manifestations.

HISTORY OF PAN AFRICANISM

Pan-Africanism has allways been there since the time of Ancient Egypt which is arguably the worlds oldest civilization but in purely modern terms, pan-africanism could be said to have started with the foundation of the African Association in London in 1897 and the first Pan-African Conference held, again in London in 1900.
Henry Sylvester Williams, the power behind the African Association, and his colleagues were interested in uniting the whole of the African Diaspora, and gaining political rights for those of African decent. Others were more concerned with the struggle against colonialism and Imperial rule in Africa and the Caribbean -- Duse Mohamed Ali, for example, believed that change could only come through economic development. Marcus Garvey combined the two paths, calling for political and economic gains as well as a return to Africa (either physically or though a return to an Africanized ideology). Between the world wars, Pan-Africanism was influenced by communism and trade unionism, especially through the writings of George Padmore, Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Paul Robeson, CLR James, WEB Du Bois, and Walter Rodney. Significantly, Pan-Africanism had expanded out beyond the continent into Europe, the Caribbean and Americas. WEB Du Bois organized a series of Pan-African Congresses in London, Paris, and New York in the first half of the twentieth century. International awareness of Africa was also heightened by the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1935. Also between the two world wars, Africa's two main colonial powers, France and Britain, attracted a younger group of Pan-Africanists: Aime Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Cheikh Anta Diop, and Ladipo Solanke. As student activists they gave rise to Africanist philosophies such as Negritude. International Pan-Africanism had probably reached its zenith by the end of World War II when WEB Du Bois held the fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester (in 1945).

African Independence

After the second World War, Pan-Africanist interests once more returned to the African continent, with a particular focus on African unity and liberation. A number of leading Pan-Africanists, particularly George Padmore and WEB Du Bois, emphasized their commitment to Africa by emigrating (in both cases to Ghana) and becoming African citizens. Across the continent, a new group of Pan-Africanists arose amongst the nationalists -- Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Ahmed Toure, Ahmed Ben Bella, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta, Amilcar Cabral, and Patrice Lumumba. In 1963, the Organization African Unity was formed to advance cooperation and solidarity between newly independent African countries and fight against colonialism. In an attempt to revamp the organization, and move away from it being seen as an alliance of African dictators, it was re-imagined in July 2002 as the African Union. Modern Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanism today is seen much more as a cultural and social philosophy than the politically driven movement of the past. People, such as Molefi Kete Asante, hold to the importance of ancient Egyptian and Nubian cultures being part of a (black) African heritage, and seek a re-evaluation of Africa's place, and the Diaspora, in the world.