مجلة الحقيقة
Volume 3, Numéro 2, Pages 151-161
2004-12-30
Lgeria And The Pan-african Movement (with Special Reference To The Colonial Period)
Authors : R. Aziz Mostefaoui .
Abstract
Pan-Africanism was first born in exile, that is in the United States of America and the West Indies. It was in those parts of the world that Pan-African ideas developed throughout the years thanks to the efforts of a great number of Afro-American and West Indian thinkers and leaders. This may be explained by the fact that the process of the Africans’ enslavement started a long time before that of their colonisation. It was the African slave who had been uprooted from his homeland and suffered greatly from the ill-treatment of the white masters. The plantation system which was introduced in the New World by the European owners, and which was based on the institution of slavery, made of the African exile a mere means of production. This situation was likely to generate movements of protest and slave revolts, which indeed had taken place since the sixteenth century in different parts of the New World. These were based on solidarity and unity against the whites’ encroachments and protracted injustice, and the retrieval of the Africans’ lost freedom. These ideas were later to constitute the pillars upon which Pan-Africanism was built. The movement was, therefore, conceived at the outset to fit the conditions of the New World Africans. The continental Africans’ aspirations were somehow excluded from the list of Pan-African objectives, since their conditions were unknown to New World Pan-Africanists. However, contacts between Africans on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean started to multiply in the twentieth century, when an important number of African students went to the United States in particular to further their studies. This enabled them to discover the conditions of their brothers in this part of the world, and allowed them to imbibe some Pan-African ideas. In addition, New World Pan-Africanists organised a series of Pan-African congresses after the First World War, under the leadership of William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1867-1963), often referred to as the ‘Father of Pan-Africanism.’ These congresses helped Pan-Africanism find its way into the African continent. Nevertheless, it is necessary to know the historical events that served as catalysts for the emergence of Pan-Africanism, in order to understand the ideals that govern this movement.
Keywords
Algeria, the Pan-African Movement (With Special Reference to the Colonial Period)
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