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These actions highlight how Afro-Germans not only resisted specific forms of racism and marginalization within Germany, but also positioned their struggles within a broader pan-Africanist framework, contributing to global efforts for liberation and racial justice.
Ultimately, the persistent misunderstanding between Africans and African-Americans is largely explained by differentiated historical experiences of resistance and alienation. While Africans and other Caribbean diasporas led victorious armed struggles, African-Americans faced a more total system of alienation and repression, which weakened their ancestral links with Africa.
To accuse Africans of“ selling out their brothers” is a reductive historical simplification that obscures the structural violence and unequal power dynamics of the global slave and colonial system. To be ashamed of Africa, and to do anything to distance oneself from it, is to support the system of oppression that has impoverished it. With these truths in mind, the major challenge today lies in rebuilding pan-African unity, an effort that requires mutual recognition of the diversity of black experiences and overcoming the fractures inherited from history.
Hopes for Africa’ s total liberation in 2025, despite persistent socio-economic challenges linked to the global capitalist system, are promising. True freedom for the Western black diaspora lies in active engagement with a free and sovereign Africa. It is important in these few lines to salute the memory of those who, from slavery to neo-colonialism, have fought and are fighting for a free Africa, and this free Africa is the legacy of noble struggles, proof that Africans, despite everything, have always fought for their freedom and that of their land. To Afro-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans and other Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Colombians, we can say that the land of Africa has been liberated from colonialist and slave oppressors. You can go back whenever you like and help finish the fight against neo-colonialism.
Flashmag! Edition 164 Septembre 2025
Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr. Journaliste
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