GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

  Pan Africanism is hampered by the internal problems African states are facing. This has made African states to be more concerned about their internal affairs rather than those of a wider continent. For example when OAU placed trade embargos on Apartheid South Africa, Malawi and Zambia continued to deal with it. They claimed that their economies would collapse without such economic deals with South Africa. The failure to form the United States of Africa as it had been proposed by Kwame Nkrumah and his comrades reduced any chances of strong Pan Africanism to be realized, they had foresighted that with a common African government, army, Africa would be considered as one bloc, very strong to change world politics. However this was turned down and a loose OAU was formed which has not bought the loyalty of all Africans. Therefore in such a situation Pan Africanism has been left at a bay. The first generation of African leaders have been overthrown as a result of military intervention i...