ABSTRACT
Pan-Africanism developed in the new world in the face of racial discrimination and dehumanization of people of African descent. The following African American and Afro-Caribbean activists and intellectuals were the key actors in its creation: W.E.B Du Bois, Paul Robeson, CL.R. James, George Padmore and Marcus Garvey. This chapter examines the relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century by focusing on conflict, forced migration and poverty as well as education. Africa has an area of 11.7 million square. miles. The continent is so large that the following areas can fit in it and yet there would be more space: Argentina, China, India, New Zealand and USA. Based on 2017 estimates, Africa’s population was 1.2 billion with 94 persons per square mile. Historically, the African state was created for extraction purposes like labor, markets and raw material to fulfill the economic needs of the colonizing countries.
