Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is the unity of the different manifestations of Africanity, a theology of liberation (to use a concept dear to Dom Helder Camara) in the Afro-centric sense. It is a current that follows the unitary tradition of the great Empires of pre-colonial Africa (Manden Empire, Wagadu Empire, Ashanti Empire, Kongo Empire, Zulu Empire, Dahomey, Ethiopian Empire, Kemet). Solidarity and the desire for union is a characteristic of African Civilization, and this desire has been projected into its Diaspora in History.

For years I have been addressing the topic of micronationalism, highlighting how this model was incapable of definitively liberating Africa, which can only inevitably lead to imagining an Empire (Federation / Confederation / Pole) which would therefore overcome the notion of Nation and nationalism in its Western vision, but also of Franco-Atlantic imperialism.

Eurasian integration is one of Russia's top geopolitical priorities, while African integration is a priority for African countries. Both concepts were formed within their respective ideological currents: Eurasianism and Pan-Africanism. Despite the outward differences between Eurasianists and Pan-Africanists, there are serious structural similarities between these ideologies, which can be summarised in Arnold Toynbee's 'challenge-response' scheme. In essence, these are problems of similar civilisations, of non-Western civilisations confronting the problems of Westernisation, modernisation, historical memory and the project of a future rooted in tradition.