Notes on Pan-African Nationalism

Pan-Africanism is the worldwide concept of Black Unity. Black Nationalism can be looked at as the actual working component to sustain Black Power, international independence, and unity.

- Khabyr Hadas

"Once you put all the purely African people or people of African descent together, you've got a formidable force in the world; And what keeps us from greatness is our inability to unify our culture and make a connection with Africa." Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Dr. Chancellor Williams, author of Destruction of Black Civilization, teaches us that "it is impossible to keep a whole people permanently enslaved. Instead of being the development of a regional scheme of an international collaboration between fully developed nation-states, Pan-Africanism emerges ahead of its time, as it serves both as a continental protection for newly independent states and the driving force for those not yet free.

What has been thought to be a real barrier to unity has been overridden or ignored. Pan-African leaders from different areas are not waiting to learn each other's language; tribal languages and religious differences are tactically being ignored. Black hands reach out to grasp Black hands all across the continent. When two leaders meet and can't understand each other's speech, the medium of communication becomes each other's hands, the eyes, and the heart. The urge toward unity is so great that Africans are getting together without wanting to understand each other's tongue.