Pan-Africanism: How Can We Achieve It?

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Education.

Gotta beat back the simple minded thought process
People are too comfortable in their current state, or too scared to make a change.

Folks have got to see the merit in this, possess the tools to contribute and extract value for themselves as well as others.

Otherwise you'll just have folks disingeniusly bickering online about plans to move when they have absolutely no intention of stepping a foot abroad.
 

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Thanks for proving my point

They are STILL fighting in 2021 but will still band together to keep White Supremacy air tight

Any more random photos from the internet you want to show me?


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IMO, the US has to do right by AAs first before true pan-africanism can take place.

The origins of the beef has its roots in WS. Whites pick and choose. And some blacks, from all sides, want to be chosen.

I have more to say, but I know how this is going to go down in TLR...
 

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No, all of them weren't victims. The Transatlantic slave trade couldn't have happened on the scale it did without collusion. If there's any hope for pan-africanism the first step is to treat Black people like humans with distinct history and flaws like anybody else. Too many people think slapping "We all Black" on every problem as a solution
Collusion was certainly the case.
But most weren’t in power themselves to be able to facilitate large-scale enslavement. In fact, many families are still enslaved today in their perspective countries.

Im not absolving actual participants of any blame b/c that certainly needs to be unpacked.
But at the same time, I don’t think it’s impossible to overcome.

Efforts like these (though symbolic in nature), certainly seem like a step in the right direction…

African chiefs urged to apologise for slave trade

Nigerian Civil Rights leaders applying pressure to acknowledge and apologize seems pretty powerful to me. It’s a start towards accountability and healing.
 

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But at the same time, I don’t think it’s impossible to overcome.
Honestly I think most people just aren't that interested. I think if you went around any city in the world and asked Black people about pan africanism it would be fairly low on their list of priorities
 

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Just a FYI. Europeans have been in-fighting and bloody wars for literally 1000 years and still band together with Pan Europeanism to keep White Supremacy alive

It's unfortunate how we fall for this divide and conquer tactics by the White Man every...single...time

I think this is a very simplistic take on European affairs. They don't band together at all. NATO will crumble in the next few years. Brexit has also shown that the pan-European project, barely 50 years old, has failed. The only reason they stopped warring with each other was because they became too weak after suffering the consequences of two world wars and needed some type of alliance against the Soviet Union so they wouldn't get completely stomped in the event of a third. Now that's not a factor anymore, there is no Soviet Union, and Russia is just as weak as any given European power. So its going to be every man for himself once again, as it always was.
 

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1.Competitive trade amongst ourselves
2.Intensive research and development partnerships between universities in the continent and diaspora.
3. Making transport within the continent easier.

Sadly, the 4th and most important in all this is that the African electorate and political class need to work towards reducing levels of corruption in our governments. It is too upfront and ridiculous.
 

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Pan-Africanism is an ideal that is totally unrealistic and doesn’t take into account peoples history, their culture and the fact that black people live on different continents centuries removed from Africa.
It’s important to not be xenophobic and respectful towards other Black people but I don’t like that “we are one and the same.” pan-Africanist tends to require. I’ve been to “Africa” and didn’t feel the need to act like I “know/am them.” Same with other nations.

I’m separatist about reparations, culture, etc. in general.
 
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