United We Stand, Divided We Fall

The definition of Pan-Africanism is located in Chapter 17 on page 381. Pan-Africanism in America today correlates where current African leaders don’t utilized their platform to promote past visionaries messages about power and unity within their countries that is vital to economic, social, and political progress aimed to uplift and unify people of African descent. Sadly, Pan-Africanism has been weakened by external forces where Africans leaders are interested in their own personal gains. In addition, globalization and economic partnership agreements with Asian and European nations have allowed African nations to operate independently and not trade with other African nations. Furthermore, some politicians have become the victims of other people’s agendas where propaganda is proposed against a united Africa. Consequently, when past Pan-African leaders promoted the unification for their nations, however; they were assassinated by Western society because they wanted to keep Africa divided to control the economics and natural

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Europe and Africa have been linked together in evaluating the state formation process. Both regions have similarities, strengths, weaknesses, and room for improvement. To this day both regions are far from perfect. Some light can be shed on this subject, by evaluating Europe and Africa’s state formation process, evaluating what party benefits, and briefly explaining two economic consequences of European colonialism in Africa.

Within Africa, nations were trying to achieve independence with some achieving it easially. Most of Africa's nations share a consequence: weakness. This weakness, before decolonization, Patrice Lumumba, who is the Prime Minster of Congo, believes that Congo was prematurealy mocked, weakened, and partially dominated. Patrice believes that just because of their skin color, that was not an reason to be treated like the way they are treated now (Doc 4). Nkrumah Kwame, who was the president of the first nation to be decolonized in Africa, assumes the fact that many other African nations were struggling, weak, and helpless. With the fragmentation continuing, the outcome of the nations would be disastrous. He sites that South Africa is very wealth, but South Africa is also weak. This shows that hope is currently not on thier side, as a whole (Doc 5). Nelson Mandela was one of the largest known people that made a difference in Africa. Nelson, who was later tried due to revolts, believes that what he did for his people was not wrong. Infact, he believes that the whites are causing the problems againsts the blacks. Nelson tries to stop using peaceful revolts, but was later accused of planning to sabotage. In the situation he is in, it was hard to gain decolonization, but it was later gained (Doc 6). Assia Djebar, who grew up in Algeria which was still trying to decolonize, figured that new pictures form while decolonization was in

Documents two and three reveal the effort among Africans to react with diplomacy. In Document two, Ashanti leader Premph I rejects a protectorate status under British rule goes to great lengths not to offend “Her Majesty” and insists

The reason Maafa is important is that upon the rediscovery of Africa’s history prior to its oppressive influence, it also shines light on the bad seeds which were planted, and that has led to the Africa’s underdevelopment and the distortions that these seeds have caused by the growth of these weeds becoming rooted in the institutions and the psyche that world has become accustomed to today. Maafa is focuses on tracing and removing these roots in the hopes of nourishing the growth of not just Africa’s mind-state, but the overall Worldview. This is significant because it assists in the restoration of

From 1914 to the present, one of the most powerful trends of the postwar era was the importance of the developing world and their desire for independence. Nationalism was an important factor in the growing independence movements in Sub- Saharan Africa. Regardless of political changes, social conflict and tensions remained a problem. Tensions between Europeans and Africans, which had been a problem since the Europeans’ arrival and social unrest in communities didn’t change.

By going back to one’s roots, the future of developing countries resided in the “development of Africa is one of the most constructive and universally helpful missions” (Locke, 6). This direction was a form of modernization that was an improvement of relationships between African Americans and other races.

therefore, turn our eyes towards Africa, our ancestral home and free it from the thralldom of

Africa faced many serious negative consequences because of imperialism. The resolution of the All African People’s Conference held in Ghana in 1958 said, “...Whereas fundamental human rights… freedom to live a full and abundant life… are denied to Africans through the activities of the Imperialists,” (Document 3). This resolution said that human rights, which are rights entitled to all humans regardless of any difference, were taken away. Because of this, the Africans were made to feel inferior which is not healthy for people and can cause serious consequences like the Africans assimilating to the European culture instead of preserving their rich, diverse culture. Sekou Toure, an African nationalist, had similar ideas, he said, “Our continent possesses tremendous reserves of raw material… with its potential sources of power, give it excellent conditions for industrialization,” (Document 2). So as well as the Africans being stripped of their basic rights

“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.”- Haile Selassie. When Ann Jones went to Africa she noticed how each tribe worked and strived together for survival. That is when she saw the real Africa, a community working together to live. Throughout Jones’ experience during her journey she can conclude that Africa is a land like no other with its community strength, wonderful landscape, and culture.

With governmental shut-downs in Congress making more of an everyday occurrence, and presidential candidates representing a stark contrast of extremist opinions, now more than ever, we need to implore devices by which the discordant ills of this country may be remedied. Cohabitation seems to be the unintentional glue that fashions together democracy. It refers to the division and sharing of powers in a double executive which is composed of two people from two distinct political parties. French political systems had managed to survive a double executive 11 (Roskin 2016)shared by different factions, despite fears that such a combination could bring about grave political consequences. In 1986 when French Socialist President Mitterrand lost control of the National Assembly to the largest conservative party, the Neo-Gaullist, he called on party leader Jean Jacques Chirac to become premier and went along with Chirac’s cabinet choices and legislation and set a precedent for when the same situation occurred in 1993 and again in 1997 (Roskin 2016). So under what conditions will cohabitation occur in the United States executive? Most political scientist believes because of hyper partisanship, such an even would produce a dangerous crisis in public affairs. Some argue that such a combination is unlikely to occur at all. This research paper attempts to offer conditions by which having a president and a vice president of different political party’s might

Nelson Mandela spoke, “I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself”. Africa did have that peace, that sense of disclosure. Africans lived in a time when they did not have to worry about anyone else's religion, politics, or culture but their own; however, due to the European nation’s thirst for power, Africans now had to face those realities. Their individual countries began to turn against one another because of European influence. Some countries lost their roots and modernized to the European standards. Some countries, even lost hope in regaining the freedom they once had. Europeans wrote Africa’s single story through colonization, which left long lasting cultural, dehumanizing, and emotional effects upon each culture, furthermore changing

What is unification? It is the bringing into one unit. Unity refers to the state of being united or being together. It is the feeling of oneness and harmony for the common goal. It is a kind of co-operation for a common cause. It is very difficult to reach the unified action on a targeted problem, and very important to negotiate and build consensus towards a solution. Strength, practically speaking, underlies unity, and whenever people act in unison with one another, their strength increases thousand-fold. The importance of unity can never be overrated. Little drops of water make the mighty ocean and little drops of sand make this vast world. The stick that could easily be broken, when twisted in a bundle becomes sturdy and hard to break. It

Whatever the exact nature of the various African ethnogenesis processes, the states gaining independence were populated by groups which had differing loyalties. This scenario would fall foul of many theories of the state, in which the absence of the coherent link between the population and the power structure of the state calls it into question. Ethnic cleavages has been a factor in many of the numerous coups d'etat and armed conflicts throughout Africa, as rival groups see the power of state apparatus as a prize worth fighting for(Warner 2001, p89).