About the Movement

Pan-Africanism emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a global network of ideas, activism, and solidarity linking Africa and its diasporas. Its origins lay in early congresses — beginning with the 1900 Pan-African Conference in London — where women and men, as intellectuals and organizers, challenged imperial domination and articulated a shared vision of Black freedom. Across the decades that followed, Pan-Africanism developed into a dynamic political and cultural movement, uniting campaigns for racial equality, self-determination, and economic justice from the Caribbean and the Americas to Europe and the African continent.