ABSTRACT

This chapter offers some reflections on pan-African education and its manifestations in the interests of pan-Africanism, as submitted by President Kwame Nkrumah and Marcus Garvey. Pan-Africanism recognizes that there are enough agricultural resources within Africa that should be developed to feed the continent and to be marketed to other world regions. Pan-Africanism and pan-African education are necessary for Africa's salvation and development; the education of the masses of African people for continental African citizenship, social, cultural political, and economic integration are the major concerns of pan-African education. Pan-Africanism and pan-African education are ineluctable constituents in the process of African people's 'evolution' from micro-nationalism to pan-African nationalism in order to transcend balkanization. Pan-African education will empower African people to be most critically conscious of their responsibilities for continental development and integration. Pan-African education's objective is to socialize Africans to obtain what Professor Molefi Asante of Temple University has termed 'Collective Cognitive Imperative'.