Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporas of African ancestry. The ideal Pan-Africanist development can be seen as a multi-step process that involves the following:
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New Ideologies: Africans required new ideas, new cosmologies, and new ideologies to understand and function in new environments.
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Political Unity: Pan-Africanism stresses the need for "collective self-reliance" and the need for unity in order to combat political dependence and economic exploitation. Pan-Africanists envision a unified African nation where all people of the African diaspora can live.
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Cultural Unity: Pan-Africanism also involves the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific, and other achievements of Africans.
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Education: Pan-Africanism has been an educational, political, and cultural movement that had a lasting impact on the relationship between Africa and its diaspora. Universities and education have played a significant role in the development of Pan-Africanism.
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Liberation: Pan-Africanism is a quest for liberation and the pursuit of a united Africa. It posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in America, West Indies, and on the continent, itself centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism.
Overall, the ideal Pan-Africanist development involves the unification of people of African descent, both on the continent and in the diaspora, through political, cultural, and educational means, in order to achieve collective self-reliance and combat exploitation.
