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The Essence of Pan-Africanism

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This chapter reviews the scholarship, the context, and the history of Pan-Africanism, in an attempt to shed more light on the concept. One of the major reasons for this misunderstanding rests with the fact that in their attempt to broaden the meaning of such a complex idea, scholars and policymakers have thrown everything African into the basket of Pan-Africanism. This explains, in part, why to date there is still no universally accepted definition of Pan-Africanism. This chapter attempts to integrate the various perspectives on Pan-Africanism.

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  1. Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA

    Thierno Thiam

  2. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Gilbert Rochon

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Thiam, T., Rochon, G. (2020). The Essence of Pan-Africanism . In: Sustainability, Emerging Technologies, and Pan-Africanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22180-5_2

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