A Brief History of Pan-Africanism

Mr. Evans’ History Documents

The ‘New Internationalist Magazine’ is a British nonprofit publishing cooperative. This text contains excerpts pertaining to the history of and issues related to Pan-Africanism. One prominent debate among historians is the issue over whether the decolonization that occurred during the Cold War was caused by structural issues in the imperial nations, or by “human agency” on the part of the colonized people. In other words, did decolonization occur because the imperial countries no longer had the money or military strength to maintain their empires, or because of the success of efforts on the part of colonized people to throw off their oppressors?