Analysis On W.E.B. Du Bois's Pan-Africanism

W.E.B. Du Bois was a prominent American black leader and social activist, who attended and presided over five pan-African Congress, which promoted black liberation movement forcefully. Du Bois held oriflamme of pan-Africanism high and devoted himself to African Negroes' liberation, so that he was the thesaurus of pan-Africanism in a long time.The formation of Du Bois's pan-Africanism had a profound historical background. On one hand, the black retained more freedom after American Civil War, and this gave him an opportunity to be an advanced intellectual, which provided him a condition to further understand the oppressed root of Negroes and colorful persons all over the world later. On the other hand, Du Bois's social experience had him know the inequality between the black and the white in fact. Two combined factors spurred him to change the irrational racial relations. In addition, predecessors' pan-Aricanism also provided an important origin to Du Bois. After World War I , international condition took a great change, which stimulated African disillusionment. In 1919, Du Bois sponsored and organized first pan-African Congress. He systemically expatiated on his pan-Africanism. Thus, Du Bois's pan-Africanism came into being basically.The contents of Du Bois's pan-Africanism were very rich. The article emphasizes on four aspects. Race equality thought was center of Du Bois's pan-Africanism. Du Bois considered the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line; moreover, racial problem was a world problem. So for the sake of realizing equality among peoples all over the world, paralogisms had to be opposed, and Du bois fought against with racialists indefatigably. His political thought was divided two phases by the year of 1945. In the first phase, he appealed to European Power to provide suffrage to...