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Pan African Studies Organizations

African Convention
African Convention (French: Convention Africaine, CA) was a political party in French West Africa, originally formed at a meeting in Dakar on 11 January 1957.
African Independence Party
African Independence Party (in French: Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) was a communist party in French West Africa (AOF). PAI was founded in Thiès, Senegal in 1957. Later as AOF was dissolved into independent countries the local PAI sections became independent parties, often keeping the name PAI.
PAI was the first party in AOF to unequivocally demand independence from French rule.
African Socialist Movement
African Socialist Movement was a political party in French West Africa
African Unification Front
AUF is an organisation aiming to promote the political, social and economic union of Africa.
African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union
Democratic Union of Africa
The Democrat Union of Africa is an alliance of centre-right political parties in Africa
Pan-African Congress
The Pan-African Congress gained the reputation as a peace maker for decolonization in Africa and in the West Indies

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Overview of Pan African Studies

Pan-African Studies is an interdisciplinary program that offers extensive study of the history, cultures, politics and socioeconomic structures of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diaspora ethnic groups of African descent. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans with a substantial support base among the African diaspora in the Americas and Europe.

Pan-Africanism can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonization and this struggle may be traced back to the first resistance on slave ships—rebellions and suicides—through the constant plantation and colonial uprisings and the "Back to Africa" movements of the 19th century. Based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social and political progress and aims to "unify and uplift" people of African descent

At its core, Pan-Africanism is a belief that "African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny". Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" and sharing cultural unity. Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in America, West Indies and on the continent itself centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery and European imperialism.

The Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the United Nations. The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand.

Information from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism

Careers for PAS Majors

PAS majors have career options quite similar to those of students with baccalaureate degrees in the humanities and social sciences.
Increasingly, PAS majors are also finding career opportunities specific to the discipline itself. Such opportunities are most common in social, cultural and educational agencies/organizations, and in business and international affairs initiatives that concern people of color.
Programs in Education, Social Work, Law and the liberal arts, including advanced work in Black Studies, are the most common choices.

PAS graduates are finding work in a broad range of sectors, including, but not limited to:

Higher education
K-12 education
Mental health
Public health
Non-profit and social services

Specific PAS jobs might include:

Educational administrators
Professors
Teachers
Authors
Researchers
Attorneys
Consultants
Diversity trainers
Civil rights and organizational leaders

Information from: https://louisville.edu/panafricanstudies/careers

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Pan-Africanists Intellectuals
Pan-Africanist ideas first began to circulate in the mid-19th century in the United States, led by Africans from the Western Hemisphere. The most important early Pan-Africanists were Martin Delany and Alexander Crummel, both African Americans, and Edward Blyden, a West Indian.