Pan-Africanism
Pan-AfricanismA movement seeking unity within Africa. It became a positive force with the London Pan-African Conference of 1900 . An international convention in the USA in 1920 was largely inspired by the Jamaican Marcus Garvey . The invasion of Ethiopia by Italy in 1935 produced a strong reaction within Africa, stimulating anti-colonial nationalism. The Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945 was dominated by Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah , and by the ‘father of Pan-Africanism’, the American W. E. B. Du Bois . In...
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