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Pan-Africanism represents the expression of shared values and common interests of Africans across the diaspora. Intellectually, it tends to view Africans and descendants of Africa as belonging to a single race and sharing cultural unity. This group has a shared historical experience of domination and nationalist struggles for their cultural, economic, and political liberation. Pan-Africanism was thus conceived as a liberation movement designed to regroup and mobilize Africans in Africa and the diaspora against racial discrimination, foreign domination and oppression, and economic exploitation.⁸

Pan-Africanists led by Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and including Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Ahmed Sekou Touré of Guinea, and Modibo Keita of Mali, proposed, following the blueprint of “Africa Must Unite,” immediate political and economic integration in the form of a “United States of Africa.” This would consist of an African common market, African monetary union, African military high command, and a continent-wide Union government.⁹

Ignace Kissangou proposes the creation of a federation of African nation-states with a common defense and security policy, a continent-wide army, a common currency, and such Pan-African institutions as a security council for African development, an African parliament, and an African senate (or representative council of African institutions).¹⁰ In 2018, in response to the visit of the British Prime Minister Theresa May, Julius Malema, the leader of one of South Africa’s most significant opposition organizations, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), evoked the spirit of Pan-Africanism. Malema called for a united Africa with a common language and an end to Africa’s colonial borders. Ultimately, peoples of African descent, wherever they are, must take on the tradition of their forebear Pan-Africanists and unite their vision and talents to survive in the increasingly hostile global village.¹¹

In a departure from liberalism toward a more realist theoretical approach, African Americans realized with frustration that the expectation that emancipation would end exploitation of Blacks and restore their dignity was mistaken.¹² We can view Killmonger as realistic in this way. He was educated and had traveled the world, witnessing violence and destruction and the oppression of dark skin people everywhere. Killmonger was not out to dominate the world and become a global dictator. His goal was liberation.