Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power Concept – Panafricanism
Oct, 25, 2010
Posted byStokely Carmichael not only stressed a return “to the roots”, but urged for a more vivid and active collaboration with the states from the African continent that had just obtained their independece. Carmichael expected this collaboration to be a kind of spark for the African-American struggle for freedom. As Stuart Towns reported, Stokely Carmichael
[…] began to connect the struggle in the rural South […] with the worldwide struggle of non-white people against imperialism and colonialism
Taking inspiration from Malcolm X he outlined an analogy between Black People in the United States and those from African states. More precisely, Carmichael was convinced that African-Americans faced a kind of internal colonialism similar to colonialism in the Third World. He therefore believed that the Third World’s liberation from its European oppressors would speed up an African-American emancipation:
Black people must do things for themselves. […] The reality of black men ruling their own natives gives blacks elsewhere a sense of possibility, of power, which they do not now have
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