Origin and Development of pan-AfricanismThe movement has roots in the trans-Atlantic slave trade that took place between 15th and 19th c. The trade was responsible for the dispersal of black people all over the world. The suffering the slaves underwent made them become conscious of their colour and origin.The Africans viewed themselves as having a common destiny. Even those who remained in Africa were later subjected to the colonial experience including forced labour, land alienation, taxation, poor wages, discrimination corporal punishment rape and murder.The movement first started as the Pan Black Movement for the American and Caribbean black only. Several African Americans wanted to uplift the lives of fellow Africans in USA and in Africa. They included Martin Delaney, Alexander Cromwell, Bishop James Johnson, Wilmot Blyden and Bishop Turner. The leading pan-Africanists in America were Booker T Washington, Marcus Moziah Garvey......
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