Activity 8
African Nationalism
1.
African
Nationalism-The sense of pride in being of Africa. This involved the people of
Africa rising up against the colonial occupation and achieving independence. To promote the African traditions and ideals.
2.
Abboriginies Rights Protection Society - 1897
African National Congress – 1912
National Congress of West Africa – 1920
3.
Pan-Africanism
is the political and social movement to create better co-operation between Africans. It is to unify those of African descent to one great African Community.
4.
Pan-Africanism is the idea that Africans
should form a unity, while African Nationalism is a movement for Africans to obtain
independence from colonialism and promote African traditions and ideals.
5.
They have both fought for the independence
from colonial rule and strongly supported the idea of Pan-Africanism, believing
in a unity of Africans. Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaen leader that fought for independence from the British in his home country. Robert Sobukwe was the founder of the Pan-Africanist party.
6.
The song
obviously tells the story of an African sold as a slave to America, where he
continued to live in hardship. It describes the struggle for freedom. The Rastafarian religion strongly believes in Africans
“returning to their roots” in Africa. The song is perhaps a call for African
Americans to ‘come back home’ to Africa. It is the idea of African unity and
freedom from non-African oppression that is conveyed in this song. Bob Marley
explains the abandoning of America, a place of non-African oppression (African
Nationalism), and the returning to a unity in Africa (Pan-Africanism). AFRICANS REMOVED FROM THEIR HOME COUNTRY AND FIGHTING TO BE FREE.
