Black Livity China

guyanese scholar, activist and author of ‘how europe underdeveloped africa’ walter rodney once tasked those who consider themselves pan-africanists with three main responsibilities. ‘to talk about pan-africanism’, he tells us, ‘is to talk about international solidarity within the black world…whichever sector of the black world we live in, we have a series of responsibilities. one of the most important is to define our own situation. a second responsibility is to present that definition to the other parts of the black world…a third responsibility…is to help others in a different section of the black world to reflect on their own specific experience’. rodney reminds us that open communication between black communities across the world is crucial to the pan-african vision, and furthermore that we should not allow ourselves to be limited by borders and geographical confines. we should be reminded that the movement does, and indeed always has transcended these things. whether or not we de