Colonial indoctrination of European supremacy gave birth to Pan-Africanism

Evidence

In line with this argument, W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), one of the founders of Pan-Africanism in America, contends that Africans on the continent were indoctrinated with the notion of the inherent supremacy of European culture through everyday interaction with Europeans and through the few colonial schools that the Europeans established. Political systems of the indigenous African peoples were likewise transformed, as traditional African rulers were usually forced to act as pawns of the colonial administration. As such, reactions to Western racial sentiments gave birth to Pan-Africanism as both a movement and an ideology. Pan-Africanism is a world-wide movement and an attempt by African people at home and abroad to transcend the effects of enslavement, voluntary or involuntary physical displacement and war, and to have their African heritage acknowledged, their African culture preserved and their rights as human beings recognized. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 947

Categorization

• XREF: The causal chain — everyday colonial interaction + few schools breed indoctrination → revolt as ideology — parallels the reader’s interest in how ideological resistance forms against institutional imposition.