Pan African Quotes

“Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the charge and declared that his intention was that the African should cease to think as an African and instead should become "a fair minded Englishman".”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“We can appreciate a pan-African congress in Africa, or a pan-African congress in America, where 15,000,000 Negroes live, or a pan-African congress in the West Indies, where 20,000,000 Negroes live, but we cannot see the reasonableness of a pan-African congress in Europe; and for that reason and for others, we consider that it is only a subterfuge.”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery

“The Pan-African Congress is for conference, acquaintanceship and general organization. It has nothing to do with the so called Garvey movement”
― W.E.B. Du Bois