TERMS & CONCEPTS

Pan-Africanism

This concept is a dynamic one that is fully discussed in the Pan-Africanism section of this site (coming in January 2001).  This term addresses a set of ideas and actions that seek to establish an optimal zone for macro-African agency.  Nkrumah has stated it as an objective while others have described it in its adjectival form as an indicator of cross-group participation of African peoples.  Some authors have also described it as an ideology.  In this site, it is made synonymous with the African Personality, African Genius, and African Community as described by Nkrumah.