Title: A Critical Reappraisal of Pan-Africanism: A Quest for SupraState Formation and Authentic Development in Africa
Abstract: As philosophy and ideology, pan-African nationalism incorporates the political, historical, cultural, spiritual, and scientific legacies of African people and the "diaspora " .Pan-Africanism is also a cultural and political movement which promotes moral values, social norms, traditional principles, and customary laws that are the product of the ancient African civilizations.Moreover, pan-Africanism as a system has struggled against slavery, racism, colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonialism.Major actors of the Pan-African movement believed that the African people had brought peace and survived long until the coming of European colonizers by the help of these traditional moral values and customary laws.In light of the above statements, we can deduced two major goals of pan-Africanism.The first is; to abolish slavery and colonialism by using Africanized ideology.The second one is; to realize the Pan-Africanist dream of "United States of Africa".With the same token, Pan-Africanism has carried a mission of correcting the historical injustices of slavery, colonialism and racism.At the same time, Pan-Africanism also shouldered the goal of building a "Supra-State Authority" by eliminating colonial and artificial boarders.To strengthen this assertion, Abdalla Bujra has proposed the following claim: