W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Pan-Africanism in Liberia, 1919-1924.

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: M'bayo, Tamba E. | Copyright information

PAN-AFRICANISM--the perceived need to mobilize all peoples of African descent against racism and colonialism--was perhaps one of the most enduring responses to the legacy of European slavery and imperialism. Although a project centered around the notion of Africa, however, Pan-Africanism was in fact heavily influenced by Western discourses on Africa and Africans. It was this Western understanding that profoundly affected the thinking of Africans in diaspora, and that in turn someti...

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