A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBALIZATION FOR PAN AFRICANISM

Globalization promotes the idea of intensified worldwide social relations which link distant localities with one another. Its project blurs geographical boundaries and sovereignties with the aims of both unity and politico-economic advancement of nations. Pan Africanism on the other hand espouses the idea of African personality (Negritude), independence, unity and African nationalism hence, it is often adjudged as a refusal or protest against centuries of African slavish contact with the oppressive European world with its attendant denials and dehumanization. While the Westerners conceive this ideology as a matter of vague emotion and an irrational Africentric adventure, the Africans rather consider it as an emancipatory agenda. Considered against today’s political and socio-economic realities, which have turned the world into a global village, one wonders how the Pan African Project could survive in the face of the pressures of globalization. This study in consequence, examines the implications of globalization for Pan Africanism. It suggests greater African unity as a panacea for realization of the goals of Pan Africanism. We adopted the analytical method in this paper.