Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood informs readers in their 2003, publication, “Pan-African History Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787, ” the following iconic individuals are Pan-Africanists; Dusé Mohamed Ali, Ahmed Ben Bella, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Amilcar Lopes Cabral, Aimé Césaire, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Constance Cummings-John, Martin Robinson Delany, Cheikh Anta Diop, Frederick Douglass, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe, Frantz Fanon, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Marcus Garvey, Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, James Africanus Beale Horton, W. Alphaeus Hunton, Cyril Lionel Robert James, Claudia Jones, Martin Luther King Jr, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Patrice Émery Lumumba, Ras T. Makonnen, Malcolm X, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Harold Moody, Jamal Abd al-Nasir [Nasser], Francis Nwia Kofi Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, George Padmore, Paul Leroy Robeson, Walter Rodney, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ladipo Felix Solanke, Sékou Ahmed Touré, T.A. Wallace-Johnson, Eric Williams, and Henry Sylvester Williams.
While being appalled by the omissions of numerous Pan-Africanists. This Mande is most reluctant to claim a number of individuals listed above were indeed Pan-Africanists. It’s well-known ; Paul Cuffee, David Walker, Robert Campbell, John B. Russwurm, Alexander Crummell, Henry Highland Garnet, Henry McNeal Turner, John Henrik Clarke, Yosef Ben Jochannan, Alexander Bedward, Joseph Robert Love, Theophilus E.S. Scholes , John Jacob Thomas, Samuel Celestine-Edwards, Cyril Valentine Briggs, John Albert Thorne, Joseph Anténor Firmin, Benito Sylvain, Peter Tosh, Wailers, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Olufela Anikulapo Kuti, Steve Biko, John George Urling, John Richard Moore, Henry Aaron Britton, Eusi Kwayana, John Alexander Barbour-James, Norman Eustace Cameron, Richard B. Moore, John Alcindor, Felix Eugene Michael Hercules, Jean Price-Mars, and Thomas Sankara and numerous others are renowned for their Pan-African efforts.
August 23, 2019 ·
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