Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches fyeahblackhistory: Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches John Henrik Clarke ‘Pan-Africanism and African Nationalism are too often misinterpreted as forms of Black Separatism, a move to organize blacks against whites. I think Pan Africanism might be understood if we also understood that for the last five hundred years the world has been ruled in the main by white nationalism. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Europe pulled out of the lethargy of the Middle Ages and began to expand into the broader world, no nation in Europe was against this move. If there was an argument among Europeans at all, it was an argument over the spoils of conquest. Europeans’ conquest and dominance over the land and commerce of most of the world was achieved by a form of Pan-Europeanism. Pan-Africanism was created as a means of relieving Africans of the burden of European dominance in order to create, at least symbolically, the concept of “One God, One Aim, One Destiny,” as advoeated by Marcus Garvey.’ click here for more
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Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches

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Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches

John Henrik Clarke

‘Pan-Africanism and African Nationalism are too often misinterpreted as forms of Black Separatism, a move to organize blacks against whites. I think Pan Africanism might be understood if we also understood that for the last five hundred years the world has been ruled in the main by white nationalism. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when Europe pulled out of the lethargy of the Middle Ages and began to expand into the broader world, no nation in Europe was against this move. If there was an argument among Europeans at all, it was an argument over the spoils of conquest. Europeans’ conquest and dominance over the land and commerce of most of the world was achieved by a form of Pan-Europeanism. Pan-Africanism was created as a means of relieving Africans of the burden of European dominance in order to create, at least symbolically, the concept of “One God, One Aim, One Destiny,” as advoeated by Marcus Garvey.’

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