Pan-Africanism, a philosophical and political movement advocating for the unity, self-determination, and empowerment of people of African descent worldwide, emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries amid the scourge of colonialism, slavery, and racial oppression. Pioneered by visionaries such as Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Kwame Nkrumah, posits that the African diaspora