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W.E.B. Du Bois's Pan-Africanism and the African National Liberation Movement

W.E.B. Du Bois is of unprecedented and unequaled importance to the development of Pan-African political thought, the Pan-African movement. and the African national liberation movement. Born and educated in the North during Reconstruction and its aftermath. Du Bois came to identify himself as African after experiencing the black slave culture of the South and understanding its origins in Africa. Du Bois's intellectual and political efforts to confront the issue of race in the United States compelled him to explore the world historical dimension of race and formulate his view that the most significant problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color-line. Indicting the political subjugation, economic exploitation, cultural impoverishment, and depreciation of African history that European imperialism had spawned in colonial Africa. Du Bois propagated the perspective that Africa was the central driving force of modern world history. In a series of Pan-African congresses, which he organized, Du Bois tried to unify native Africans and the peoples of African descent world-wide and empower them to combat colonial imperialism and fight for liberation. Du Bois's contribution to Pan-Africanism resides in his uncompromIsing endeavor to eradicate racism. his abiding commitment to expose and resist the imperial exploitation of colonized Africans. and his Afro-centric outlook that Africa has the primary cultural and historical resources required for African independence and post-colonial development.