Role of Women Leaders in the Pan African Movement

Abstract

The goal of the pan-African movement was to raise the collective voice ofall Africans in opposition to racialized dominance. Africans were subjectedto colonial oppression both within and outside of their own continentduring the 20th century, which gave rise to the Pan African movement.African Americans were also speaking up and make the rest of the worldaware of their plight. The overview of this research paper is to focus on thehistory of the Pan African movement and to emphasize the contribution ofwomen to Pan Africanism. Any revolutionary transformation affectssociety in ways that are political, cultural, and economically significant.According to our research, women played the largest role in thismovement, but the historical text did not reflect this. This paper also aimsto examine how Pan African movements have impacted social, political,and cultural advancement, particularly through the eyes of women. Thispaper would like to use the theoretical understanding of Sandra Harding'sStand point theory. The idea that the viewpoints of marginalized and oroppressed people might aid in the creation of more objective accounts ofthe world. This theory is one the feminist theories that refers to as "strongobjectivity," and revised the history for knowing the standpoint ofoppressed class.