POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ahmed Ben Bella, Afrocentrism, Casablanca Group
2 Apr 2020
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Pan-africanism includes various political, cultural, and intellectual movements based on a series of shared presumptions and objectives. It was inspired by the desire to instill racial pride among african people on the continent and in the diaspora; To achieve their self-determination from european domination, to promote solidarity among them, and to foster their social and economic regeneration. Thus, pan-africanism had two main objectives: to liberate africans and the afican diaspora from racial degradation, political oppression and economic exploitation, to encourage unity or integration among african people in political, cultural, and economic matters. Pan-africanist ideas were derived from the experiances and struggles against slavery, colonialism and racism, as well as internationalist idas of democracy, Afro-centrism in us: belief in the need of the political unity, or at least much closer political, economic and cultural co-operation, between the states of the african continent or (in some variants, the sub-saharan sector)
