This article is the continuation of yesterday's "Pan Africanism: an overview". I give you the link right here if you want to have a look at it: https://www.blogalkebulan.com/post/pan-africanim-overview.
Today we will see how did the movement had an impact in Africa and the rest of the African diaspora. For those more interested in the subject, I will give you more link so you can go deeper in your knowledge. Enjoy!
In the 20th century, the movement saw new leaders and thinkers becoming part of the movement. Among them, were intellectuals such as Aimé Césaire in Martinique (French Caribbean) or even Jomo Kenyatta from Kenya. Through their ideas, it could still be noticed a strong influence of their African American predecessors. In Fact, WEB Du Bois still had a huge influence within the movement.
However, the leader who was the most important figure at that time was Kwame Nkrumah. He was a Ghanaian revolutionary who obtain the independence from Britain in 1957. His belief was that Africa should unite in order to be free from the European colonial rules, which reminds us of the belief that WEB Du Bois had few years earlier. The influence of Kwame Nkrumah crossed the frontiers and also had a huge impact on African American who were more and more embracing their African heritage, through their clothing, for instance.
This period was very important for the African continent and Afro descendants in general because, countries were being decolonized from European countries. They were expecting to prosper economically and culturally. Kwame Nkrumah’s wish was to create a union of the decolonized countries from the continent. A year later, the All African People’s Conference was hosted in Accra (Ghana). Many independent African countries were present. It is also important to precise that it was the first biggest coalition of the Arabic countries with Black African countries. The objectives were to talk about the difficulties that those countries were facing since their independence, caused by the European colonialism and to find solutions to create an economic growth which would help them to prosper.
However, in 1960, when the second Conference occurred, some disagreements occurred. Despite those disagreements, the movement continued to rise even after the death of Kwame Nkrumah in 1972. The new leader became Muammar Qaddafi.
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