African Identities: Pan-Africanism in the Era of Globalization and

We live in a world of contradictions. Human technology and ingenuity have opened an endless frontier in outer space and internal space, even decoding the key to life; and yet human greed has decreed that there be poverty and disease on earth. The means to save life are overshadowed by the means to destroy it. Weapons of mass destruc-tion, no matter what nation hoards them, are a sword of Damocles over the globe. Insecurity haunts the streets of even the most heavily armed nations. The prison population is the most rapidly growing sec-tor in both the poorest and the wealthiest of nations. The splendor-in-squalor character of our globe is at the heart of the complex contradictions of globalization. What is Africa’s place in this scenario? What is Africa’s place in global space? Every phenomenon in nature, society, and thought, including the character of its being, is affected by the external and internal dynamics of its becoming. African development is no exception. The Cold War o