Opinion: Commemorating the 1900 Pan-African Conference, By Adeoye O. Akinola
On July 23, Africa, its diaspora and other pro-black races in the global community commemorated the 120-year anniversary of the first Pan-African Conference in London. This was to honour the selfless commitment of all Pan-Africanists who had sacrificed their time, energy and lives for the emancipation of Africans and the black race from the shackles of enslavement, imperialism, colonialism and, by extension, contemporary socio-economic slavery.
After Germany’s emergence as a European imperial power, its chancellor, Otto von Bismarck hosted the infamous Berlin Conference at which Africa was effectively partitioned. The African diaspora reacted to this development through hosting the Chicago Congress on Africa in 1893, which laid the foundation for black political, social, and artistic movements in the 20th century.
At the top of the agenda of the 1945 congress was the dislodgement of European colonial overlords from Africa. Manchester provided the platform for Pan-Africanist patriarchs, like Kwame Nkrumah, to resurrect the spirit of the political, socio-economic, intellectual, and philosophical movement birthed in 1900.
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