Društveno-historijske pretpostavke nastanka ideje afričkog jedinstva
Socio-Historical Background of the Idea of African Unity

Summary/Abstract: The Pan-African movement occupies an extremely prominent place in the contemporary history of Africa and cannot be ignored in any analysis of the decolonization of the African Continent and of anticolonial revolution in general. In its highly substantive and conceptually diverse evolution, the movement has articulated and interrelated traditional African values and the democratic aspirations of progressive forces towards freedom and independence. As a political movement, although its organisational structure is of a different type, it has exerted a powerful influence on the process of decolonization of the African Continent The modem African intellectual élite, who headed the movement, adopted the idea of national sovereignty as formulated in modern political theory and transferred it to African soil. The historical evolution of the Pan African movement can be followed on three continents (North America. Europe and Africa) in the course of their general historical development. In the movement’s evolution, this was reflected on its conceptual definition. When transferred to the soil of Africa. Pan-Africanism was expressed in the national assertion of individual African countries through particular forms of struggle for independence and autonomous economic and political development its goals were to be adopted by numerous national liberation movements, political organisations, regional African organisations, etc.

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