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Pan Africanism and Reparations

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Our great historian and departed ancestor, Dr. John Henrik Clarke described in his classic book, Notes for an African World Revolution, that, “The ides of uniting all Africa had its greatest development early in this [20th] century.” According to Dr. Clarke there were only thirty delegates to the conference that came mainly from England, the…

June 26, 2008 1 min read Free to read

Our great historian and departed ancestor, Dr. John Henrik Clarke described in his classic book, Notes for an African World Revolution, that, “The ides of uniting all Africa had its greatest development early in this [20th] century.”

According to Dr. Clarke there were only thirty delegates to the conference that came mainly from England, the Caribbean, and the United States. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois led the small delegation from the United States. It is in this connection that the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC), at their International Conference in July 2000, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the First Pan African Conference in London.

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