Yet, the realities of neocolonialism, the movement for the emancipation of Africans, is persistence of overt and covert systems of oppression alive and strong, having overcome numerous at economic and political levels, the undermining and challenges. [...] Often, the power of the response is evident in the In the last century, among the many goals that Pan- fact that a plurality of people, in diverse and distant Africanism had historically advanced, two were pri- parts of the world, are galvanised into action to forge oritised: national independence for a colonised Africa, united rebuttals against such oppressive conditions and continental unity. [...] frameworks for building continental unity envisioned during the putative years of independence in Africa— Even with a robust attempt to sustain the Pan-African frameworks that led to the birth of the Organisation of ideal, at every turn the idea of Pan-Africanism is con- African Unity (OAU)—the one that won the day was fronted by doubt, cynicism and even resistance from the least capable of transc. [...] The present lived experiences of Africans Sylla, which articulates the influence the French have and people of African descent, wherever they are lo- in ‘Francophone’ Africa and, increasingly, the rest of cated, seem very different and of much more press- the continent. [...] The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African The cost to Africa of the failure to unite has been im- freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determi- mense indeed and many of the challenges the continent nation, and carry it forward.’ confronts today can be traced partly to this failure.
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