ABSTRACT

This chapter argues that pan-Africanism and pan-African education are the only effective alternatives to the 'entrenched' colonial and neocolonial educational systems and the political balkanization of continental Africa. Mobility and tolerance for diversity must therefore be institutionalized in pan-African education. The existence of Animism, Christianity, Islam and other religions in Africa compel the pan-Africanist to be tolerant and to guard against tribalism, regionalism and other forms of parochialism. Pan-African education will also redirect the non-beneficial academic migration and give renewed credibility and commonality to the African educational experience. Pan-African education', in fact, has been seen more in the West where various Africans from diverse African countries have met chiefly in schools and on university campuses. The proper education of the pan-Africanist calls for the concerted effort of teachers, politicians, journalists, novelists, pan-African organizations, cultural agents and businesses and all others directly and indirectly engaged in the socialization process.