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Ali A. Mazrui's Articles in Pan-Africanism

African unity can only succeed by involving intellectuals
In 1958, the year following Ghana's independence, Nkrumah hosted in Accra the All-Africa Peoples' Conference, a people-to-people mobilisation drive. The invitees included Kenya's rising political star, Tom Mboya. He subsequently hosted the first conference of African states. He even attempted a regional unification of three African states: Ghana, Guinea and Mali. Unfortunately, this turned out to be more an experiment than an achievement.
How academia and intellectuals mobilised change in East Africa
The golden age of African nationalism of the post-colonial variety was from the 1930s to the 1970s. African academics and intellectuals helped to mobilise the masses against the colonial order.
Celebrating six decades of Pan-Africanism: Alternative routes for continent's heritage
Pan-Africanism and Pan-Islamism are two alternative routes towards the African heritage. After all, Islam first arrived in the Americas and in South Africa in chains; it was brought to the Western hemisphere by enslaved Africans and in South Africa through enslaved Malays.