1.
African Nationalism- African Nationalism was a
movement across Africa to fight against colonialism and demand independence.
2.
African
Unity/African Union – 1963
African National Congress – 1912
National Congress of West Africa – 1920
3.
Pan-Africanism is a movement for to create
co-operation amongst Africans.
4.
Pan-Africanism is a movement for co-operation
and African Nationalism was a movement for independence.
5.
Kwame Nkrumah - An important 20th-century
believer of Pan-Africanism, Kwame Nkrumah was a founding member of the
Organization of African Unity and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe - was a South
African political dissenter, who started the Pan Africanist Congress in disapproval
to the apartheid government. In 2004 Sobukwe was voted 42nd in the SABC3's
Great South Africans.
6.
The song
says that an African was sold as a slave to America, where he lived. The
Rastafarian religion believes in Africans “returning to their roots” in Africa.
The song is 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 showed
in this song. Bob Marley explains the leaving of America, a place of
non-African oppression (African Nationalism), and the returning to a unity in
Africa (Pan-Africanism).
