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For those who’ve been asking me to summarize what I study in grad school, here is a very brief definition of my view on Pan-African studies.

Because it had its beginnings as organized resistance to colonialism, Pan-Africanism is a political vehicle intended to alleviate the economic and social damages of slavery and disenfranchisement. This political impetus has resulted in African national independence, the Civil Rights movement in the United States and other successes in the Diaspora.

However, as expressed by its intellectual and cultural proponents, Pan-Africanism has evolved from a purely political manifestation into a dynamic philosophy that investigates and reconstructs African historical authenticity, espouses the validity of African worldviews and seeks to reestablish the African and her descendants to eminence in the world community. It is a philosophy representative of the African’s historical, social, cultural, psychological and technological experience and, as such is a deep reservoir of answers to age-old human questions. As human endeavor, Pan-Africanism is not limited to the construct of race. It is a body of thought with the potential to instruct those of us with the visible genetics typically associated with Africa and those of us without them.

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