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Article: Making Pan-Africanism relevant today

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October 1, 2009
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There could be no more appropriate place to reflect on the practice of Pan-Africanism than in this New African 10th anniversary Black History Month special issue. Readers are invited to weigh in on where they see Pan-Africanism today and what their vision is for the Pan-African tomorrow.

In August I had the opportunity to participate in a special plenary session on the practice of Pan-Africanism sponsored by the Accra-based W.E.B. Ou Bois Centre for Pan-African Culture and the Association for the study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) at the letter's biennial conference, which was held in Accra. Having just 10 minutes to address the authence forced me to identify and tersely ...

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