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  roquad at 03/17/2008 9:49:09 AM
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  This is a very interesting Article. One of the most thought provoking ideas is that, "....most Africans don't feel the need to identify with African Americans". This idea when encompassed with the tribal view that most Africa American have Africans unfortunately compounds the circumstances. However having lived on the continent I know that our futures are intertwined. Both of the previously stated ideas have roots in colonialism. I believe it correct that the effort to forage Pan-Africanism should take place in both SA Universities, and HBCU's. The post colonial age will review the affects of colonialism in a different light then it has been in recent history. These universities have the ability to provide a more critical commentary on the colonial age and its affects. As a result the possibility may be that young Africans and African Americans will see how truly tied together they are.
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  Zyambo at 02/20/2008 11:16:02 PM
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  It always sems to me that an average African-American couldn't care less about African affairs. Maybe it's the fact that they are too busy trying to survive in America. But if anyone cared at all, we'd have lots of them holidaying in the motherland and we sure would have seen a lot of African names adopted and slave names dropped..
  
  I want to see some changes people!
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  umfundisi at 02/18/2008 5:33:35 PM
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  The Pan-African dream has never died and is well and alive everyday in the streets of Atlanta, Queens, London, Paris and Cape Town. I have met Africans resident outside of Africa who have formed lasting partnerships with their African-American colleagues. I belonged to a small group of pan-africans in Cape Town during a brief research at UCT. Pan-Africanism exists in the younger groups who interact, travel, blog and share other experiences. So the focus needs to shift from a paradigmn that focuses on the "leaders" or elites to the ordinary communion.