ABSTRACT
The perspective of Pan-Africanism was first advanced in the international context by barrister Henry Sylvester Williams of Trinidad and Tobago at the London conference of 1900. The movement to realize Pan-Africanism was directly reinforced by a wide variety of concomitant social protest and resistance struggles. The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of the new color line: the global boundaries of inequality and exploitation between North and South. The new color line is the permanent expansion of poverty in capitalist states and throughout the Third World, the crisis of hunger and homelessness, of famine and social disruption. The new Pan-Africanism of the twenty-first century must take a progressive stand on environmental issues and the state of the world's ecology. The Pan-Africanism of the next century must define itself not in terms of biology, genetics, or race, but in terms of politics and social vision.
