Pan Africanism

                    Pan African movement

The pan African movement was a universal negro association formed by highly educated blacks in Europe,United States of America and the west Indies who still suffered racial discrimination. The association looked toward Africa as the real home of the black man and develop the idea that the whole Africa should be liberated from white rule(colonialism).
Another important aim of the association was to promote the cultural values of the African people and to create a single African nation-state. The founding members of the pan African movement included - Edward Blyden (a Liberian); Edmund Garvey; W.E.Du Bois and George Padmore (all west Indies). The first conference of pan African movement was held in Paris in 1918; the second in London and Brussels in 1921; the third in Lisbon in 1923 and the fourth in New York in 1927.
Marcus Garvey a Jamaican Negro founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. His motto was 'Africa for the Africans'.
                                       .....By B.C.Nwankwo,
                                .Authority in Government.