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A new Pan-Africanism for a New Century
Following the Eurocentric pathways to identity and development are a fallacy that is holding Africa back, ROGER McKENZIE argues
PAST INFORMS FUTURE: Bronze statues, in a free arrangement, of four Tikar slaves, three men and a woman, being marched by a Moorish colonial guard and a Mboum royal guard toward the coast to be exported to the Americas, by Nji Gbetkom Salifou, a Bamoun sculptor from Cameroon’s Grasslands [David Reed/The Bamoun Collection/CC]

THE story of the remaining three quarters of the 21st century will be the phoenix-like rise of the Third World.

A key part of this new beginning will be the development of a new pan-Africanist movement to end what is increasingly being labelled as the 500 years of exploitation and humiliation faced by people of African descent.

It will also be an indispensable cog in the machinery that will build a new multilateral world.

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