ABSTRACT
W.E.B. Du Bois declared, advance guard of the Negro people—the 8,000,000 people of Negro blood in the United States of America—must soon come to realize that if they are to take their just place in the van of Pan-Negroism, then their destiny is not absorption by the white Americans. The African Association, however, was “not necessarily opposed to colonial rule, nor ‘civilizing’ mission” and, in a sense, continued the kind of moderate “Pan-Negroism” that colored and characterized most of what has been identified as inchoate, nineteenth century Pan-Africanism. Featuring presentations on slavery, colonialism, racism, and other forms of oppression Africans endured, conference participants were preoccupied with finding solutions to Africa and Africans’ most pressing problems. Culminating with the end of World War I, Du Bois “imagined the immediate creation of a far more effective Pan-African Movement.” Nineteen years after Pan-African Conference of 1900, and a decade after he helped to establish the National Association for Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
