origins of the modern African political thought

This paper presents the Modern African political thought which arises, above all, from the position of the intellectuals of the Black world against slavery and colonization. This thought is marked through the writings and speeches of African-American, Caribbean and African authors (Garvey, Padmore, Anta Diop, Senghor, Césaire, etc.) This school of thought endeavored in particular to bring Africans and their deported descendants, to cultivate in themselves the consciousness of self-esteem; with the aim of rehabilitating the position Africa in the history of mankind. William E. B. Du Bois is in the heart of this tradition. His works are written in a context marked by racial segregation in North America, primarily in the United States. This segregation was also ongoing in South America (Brazil, Guyana) and in the Caribbean. (French West Indies, Jamaica and Santo Domingo) This was also the time of the widespread colonization in Africa