Answer to Question #164137 in History for Ashley Belle

Question

Many social movements including market women, youth, intelligentsia, Negritude, religious groups, farmers, and workers contributed to the struggles for the liberation of Africa from European domination as you read in the articles suggested for today’s lecture, the decolonization of Africa, in your opinion, which social movement helped more in the struggles to liberate Africa from European domination in the 19th century? (Explain)

Answer 1

The intelligentsia greatly contributed to the African liberation.They believed that black people needed a separate nation-state in order to be truly free of the injustices perpetrated against them by whites over the last few hundred years. The formed movements such pan africanism to fight for the liberation of the Africans. This movement united blacks in solidarity with each other in the promotion of an idea of a better idea for a black.