Pan-africanismo e teoria social: uma herança crítica

Abstract

Pan-Africanism was born of the struggle of black activists to promote the construction of their ethno-racial community. His original characteristic is to build positive and internationalist views about this identity, understood as the black community: African and African descent. Stand out among its representatives intellectuals as E. Blyden, W. E. Du Bois, M. Garvey, Franz Fanon and K. N’Krumah. In the second half of the twentieth century, this tradition had been submitted to severe criticism in theoretical and political scene. Above all, as supposed to be creating an essentialist view of the black community. This essay seeks to explain, briefly, the dispute over the pan-African ideals. Finally, it will highlight how some guiding principles of this tradition can be useful as theoretical resources of the new black African research