ABSTRACT
Pan-Africanism is an ideal and a movement aiming at uniting African people with people from the African diaspora—particularly from the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe—against cultural marginalization, political domination/oppression, and economic exploitation. Thus, the three dimensions of Pan-Africanism are: cultural, political and economic. Culturally, Pan-Africanism aims at reclaiming Africa’s heritage, history, culture, traditions and values. In 1957, under the dynamic and influential leadership of its first President Kwame Nkrumah—an ardent Pan-Africanist—Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to become independent. Since Kwame Nkrumah’s passing from the African political scene in February 1966 and his death in exile in 1972, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi became the main advocate of Radical Pan-Africanism and of African continental unity in Africa.
