The many countries in Africa each pursue their own interests which sometimes results in intra-African conflict. This division makes Africa easy prey for imperialism. This can be remedied by a United States of Africa with a common currency, common defense and foreign policy.
Pan-Africanism Is The Answer To Africa’s Problems
When you look at the many problems that plague Africa today: theft of her resources,
heightened militarization, declining life expectancy, the AIDS epidemic, religious and ethnic
conflicts – it is difficult to avoid the obvious and inevitable question: Can Africa overcome these
problems? The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) boldly and unequivocally
answers “YES!” Despite their magnitude and complexity, the challenges confronting Africa can
be effectively addressed with revolutionary organization and the achievement of Pan-
Africanism, which means the liberation of Africa from foreign control and the unification of the
African continent under a single socialist government.
The history of Pan-Africanism is a history of patient commitment. Between 1900 and 1945,
there were several Pan-African conferences and congresses. They were attended by Africans
from around the world in search of greater ideological and organizational clarity. The Pan-
African Congress of 1945 stands out because of its militant character. While the previous
congresses were oriented toward making appeals to the colonizers for freedom, the 1945
congress called for Africans to create mass political parties to free Africa. Subsequent to this
call, political parties proliferated throughout Africa and around the world. They included among
others: the Convention People’s Party (CPP) (Ghana), the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG),
the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the
African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) (South
Africa).
Assessing the political landscape in Africa in 1968, Kwame Nkrumah saw the various liberation
organizations fighting colonialism/imperialism in their respective countries with little or no
central coordination. He believed the liberation of Africa could be accelerated if one political
entity guided the process. In his book, The Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, Nkrumah
called for the formation of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party to play the central
coordination role.
The many countries in Africa each pursue their own interests which sometimes results in intra-
African conflict. This division makes Africa easy prey for imperialism. This can be remedied by
a United States of Africa with a common currency, common defense and foreign policy. Africa
also needs socialism, an economic system that will properly harness the resources of Africa to
meet the needs of the masses of the continent’s people rather than limiting the benefits to a
small elite and foreign capitalists.
The A-APRP is working to put Pan-Africanism on the lips and in the hearts of Africans around
the world because we know that when Africans everywhere accept this idea, there is no power
on earth that can stop us from freeing Africa from imperialist exploitation, redirecting the
continent’s vast resources to meet the needs of the people, and making Africa a force for
peace and justice in the world.
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