![]() The partitioning of Africa at the Berlin Conference (colonialism) created pseudo-nation states out of what was initially seen as an undivided continent. ![]() ![]() They associated the continent of Africa with freedom. That is, they realized that they were enslaved because they came from the same continent and shared the same racial heritage. For formerly enslaved Africans, Pan-Africanism was an idea that helped them see their commonalities as victims of racism. We also show its evolution, beginning with formerly enslaved Africans in the Americas, to the colonial borders of the 1884 Berlin Conference, and conclude with the independence movements in Africa. Our paper examines the place of Pan-Africanism as an educational, political, and cultural movement which had a lasting impact on the on the relationship between liberation and people of African descent, in the continent of Africa and the Diaspora.
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