Pan Africanism: Echoes of History in the New Millennium

The paper did set out to examine the evolutionary trend of “Pan Africanism” through the several historical and sociological and into the new millennium. The new millennium is presenting Africa and Africans with mirage of problems with some of these problems are carried over from the colonial past into the present. All of Africa’s problems had kept the continent in constant state of flux with no clear cut direction on how to engender growth and development. Africa’s problems in the new millennium includes hunger and shelter, unemployment and under employment, bad government and governance, diseases, climate change, terrorism, woeful economic performances and debt and colonial legacies. The interplay of these problems culminated in the relegation of the African continent to the “backwaters” of global “politics and economics”. The question then is - what role has Pan Africanism played in the liberation of the African continent from the shackles of neo- colonialism. The attempt at proffering answers to the question did inadvertently lead the paper to several conclusions thus the recommendations canvass herein.