Pan Africanism Is Extraction
Pan Africanism Is Extraction
By Maroc
Pan Africanism is no longer about unity.
It has morphed into an ideological hustle a vehicle for extraction, not reciprocity.
Soulaan people, Black Americans with lineage tracing back to the 1800s U.S. Census and the Maafa, are constantly expected to be the face of struggle, the bridge to Africa, and the energy source for global Black causes.
But when it comes to our own justice, sovereignty, or reparations?
The silence is loud.
The gaslighting is louder.
Pan Africanism has trained many to recognize global Black indigeneity, but suddenly go blind when it comes to North America because the real objective has always been to treat the American Negro as unrewarded property of Africa.
No identity.
No sovereignty.
No voice.
Absolutely no Black American is flooding Caribbean nations demanding political power, citizenship, or reparations.
Yet African and Caribbean nationals feel entitled to our movements, our lineage-based reparations, and our cultural infrastructure.
Those are colonizer tactics just wearing Black skin. And if you are a Black foreigner ignoring Soulaan struggles while pushing a false sense of unity, understand this:
You have lost our interest in solidarity.
Extraction, Not Solidarity.
Notice Pan Africanists never highlight funding our legal fights, our freedom movements, or our grassroots initiatives. They only highlight our history when it’s time to borrow from it.
They tell us we’re “the same” but only when it’s time to study our culture, harvest our energy, and claim our legacy as theirs. Is that not an agenda of extraction?
They say, “The FBI and CIA are creating anti-African Black groups to divide us.” But when we ask:
Why can’t Pan Africanists speak up when Soulaan people are disrespected, undermined, and erased by Africans or Caribbeans?
They gaslight.
They project.
They block us.
No Soulaan is invading CARICOM.
But Pan Africanists are constantly invading our reparations claims, our cultural lineage, and our blood-coded identity. You are not entitled to unity with a people you only show up to study, mimic, and exploit. You are not entitled to ride the Soulaan bloodline like a tourist bus to political clout and global proximity.
Nobody’s Invading You but You’re in Our House Uninvited. Let’s be perfectly clear:
Soulaan aren’t storming Jamaican political forums. We aren’t demanding seats in Nigerian government. We aren’t claiming Garvey’s birthright. We aren’t asking for Ghanaian land rights or reparations from Haiti. Yet Pan Africanism has become a tool to position Soulaan people as the global labor force for emotional solidarity without receiving any of the tangible fruits of that so-called unity.
It shows up as:
- Black Lives Matter being hijacked and redirected toward “global Black suffering”
- Reparations efforts being diluted into vague “diaspora coalitions”
- Soulaan culture: hip hop, jazz, soul, street fashion, political movements being rewritten as “Pan African exports” but never protected, funded, or defended.
This is not solidarity. This is resource mining wrapped in kente cloth.
When It’s Time to Give We Are “One People” When It’s Time to Receive We Are On Our Own. The most glaring contradiction in Pan Africanism:
When it comes time to study our culture, quote our revolutionaries, eat from our table
We are “one people.” But when it comes time to stand for Soulaan-specific reparations? When it comes time to defend our indigeneity? When it comes time to call out Africans or Caribbeans disrespecting us? Suddenly we are on our own. If we are “all one people,” why is the burden of unity always placed on us? Why is the cost of unity only deducted from our end.
You Block Us When We Demand Accountability
When Soulaan people ask:
- Why don’t you protest when Africans call us Akatas?
- Why don’t you protest when Caribbeans tell Soulaan youth they have no culture?
- Why don’t you defend us when Pan African movements steal our aesthetic, our music, our energy?
We are called divisive.
We are told we are tools of the CIA.
We are gaslit into silence.
Pan Africanism has become a spiritual colony.
Soulaan bloodlines are treated like a global ATM machine. Withdraw when convenient. Never deposit.
And when we dare to say enough, we are excommunicated from the very unity we built.
Enough.
Soulaan People Are Not Extensions. We Are Foundations We built global Black consciousness. We built the rhythm of protest and soul-based resistance. We built the blueprint for every global Black liberation narrative. We structured movements. We globalized style, sound, thought, and spiritual resistance. And yet we are asked to earn access to spaces we created. To beg for entry into movements built on our backs?
No.
Solidarity Without Reciprocity Is Colonization If you ignore our struggle, Erase our indigeneity, Dismiss our sovereign needs, but remember us when it is time to harvest energy.
You are not a brother or sister. You are a colonizer with a darker hue. Soulaan people are no longer accepting this silent extraction pipeline disguised as Pan African unity.
We are not anti-African.
We are not anti-Caribbean.
We are anti-parasitism.
We are anti-exploitation.
Unity without respect is a scam.
Solidarity without support is theft.
And Pan Africanism without equity is just recolonization with a smile.
#Soulaan
Peace and love FBA/Soulaan FAMILY Salute 🫡💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🇺🇸
This was very well written. I’m proud of us. Continue to put in the work, family, and share our message. Continue to get on code people.✊🏽Soulaan/FBA
Thank you for this very inforrmative article on Pan Africanism. I am blessed to see this day. My people are waking up to this decietful doctrine!!!
Hi. I love this. But there are flaws when reading this. I can’t speak on Carribeans however my family is both West African (Ghana) and Black American. I’ve always took pride in both cultures and for that reason I’ve gravitated towards the pan Africanist movement. HISTORICALLY West africans, specifically Ghana has supported Black Americans. The first president of Ghana kwame Nkrumah attended a HBCU and protested and fought for civil rights along side Malcom x… Malcom even callled him a close friend in his autobiography. And Malcom and the fight for civil rights inspired kwame to fight for Ghana and take it back from Europe and as a result Ghana became the first sub Saharan African country to win independence. And Ghana has been an original pioneer to the pan African movement. Today Ghanaians not only support Black Americans but welcome them and give them Ghanaian names as well when the come to Ghana. The slave castles are still there and used for educational purposes so the history and origins never die ! So The idea that most Africans are against Black Americans or are using the pan Africanist movement as a guise to silence BA is incorrect and is using the minority of crooked people to label the majority which is incorrect and inaccurate. It’s important to bring us the Injustices BA’s face while realizing that it’s not all or even majority of Africans that feel that way. There are plenty of self hating African folks and there are plenty of self hating black American folks. And the word Akata has been wrongly spread and mis interpreted..it simply means Black American… there is zero derogatory meaning to it. I think going forward Unity WHILE STILL HAVING INDIVIDUAL PRIDE IS KEY. I don’t agree with everything Dr Umar (Pan Africanist) says but in a podcast, he talked about why the anti-Asian hate bill got passed so quickly meanwhile black Americans in American have been systematically oppressed and slaughtered for centuries, and nothing has been done about it… He mentioned how America does business with China and they don’t wanna lose China support in the support of Asian countries so as a result, they should support to the Asians living here in America… a light bulb went off in my head …. Unity is soooo important. White people have never taken Black people seriously across the world, including America obviously. But the facts remain that African-Americans are the whole reason why America is so prosperous today and Africa is the sole reason why the world is so prosperous today. Africa’s land is so rich… And supplies most of the world with its resources… Technologies that we have today wouldn’t be available or possible without Africa’s resources… but instead of taking control… Most of Africa is ran by Europe still and haven’t truly freed themselves… I feel like if allll black people in America took our power back (our dollars and support) and if Africa Took our power back (resources and support) and both became unified we would be so much more powerful. As a community we see the plain damage the CIA has done to the Black community in America… Yet it’s not plainly obvious that in the 60s, West African countries and black Americans began a relationship , a good one full of love and support and now we aren’t fond of each other ? Now there’s diaspora wars breaking out left and right ? One side offending the other left and right …let’s be real. LETS GET SERIOUS if we want change in our communities
And being divided will never help us :/
Hi. I love this. But there are flaws when reading this. I can’t speak on Carribeans however my family is both West African (Ghana) and Black American. I’ve always took pride in both cultures and for that reason I’ve gravitated towards the pan Africanist movement. HISTORICALLY West africans, specifically Ghana has supported Black Americans. The first president of Ghana kwame Nkrumah attended a HBCU and protested and fought for civil rights along side Malcom x… Malcom even callled him a close friend in his autobiography. And Malcom and the fight for civil rights inspired kwame to fight for Ghana and take it back from Europe and as a result Ghana became the first sub Saharan African country to win independence. And Ghana has been an original pioneer to the pan African movement. Today Ghanaians not only support Black Americans but welcome them and give them Ghanaian names as well when the come to Ghana. The slave castles are still there and used for educational purposes so the history and origins never die ! So The idea that most Africans are against Black Americans or are using the pan Africanist movement as a guise to silence BA is incorrect and is using the minority of crooked people to label the majority which is incorrect and inaccurate. It’s important to bring us the Injustices BA’s face while realizing that it’s not all or even majority of Africans that feel that way. There are plenty of self hating African folks and there are plenty of self hating black American folks. And the word Akata has been wrongly spread and mis interpreted..it simply means Black American… there is zero derogatory meaning to it. I think going forward Unity WHILE STILL HAVING INDIVIDUAL PRIDE IS KEY. I don’t agree with everything Dr Umar (Pan Africanist) says but in a podcast, he talked about why the anti-Asian hate bill got passed so quickly meanwhile black Americans in American have been systematically oppressed and slaughtered for centuries, and nothing has been done about it… He mentioned how America does business with China and they don’t wanna lose China support in the support of Asian countries so as a result, they should support to the Asians living here in America… a light bulb went off in my head …. Unity is soooo important. White people have never taken Black people seriously across the world, including America obviously. But the facts remain that African-Americans are the whole reason why America is so prosperous today and Africa is the sole reason why the world is so prosperous today. Africa’s land is so rich… And supplies most of the world with its resources… Technologies that we have today wouldn’t be available or possible without Africa’s resources… but instead of taking control… Most of Africa is ran by Europe still and haven’t truly freed themselves… I feel like if allll black people in America took our power back (our dollars and support) and if Africa Took our power back (resources and support) and both became unified we would be so much more powerful. As a community we see the plain damage the CIA has done to the Black community in America… Yet it’s not plainly obvious that in the 60s, West African countries and black Americans began a relationship , a good one full of love and support and now we aren’t fond of each other ? Now there’s diaspora wars breaking out left and right ? One side offending the other left and right …let’s be real. LETS GET SERIOUS if we want change in our communities
And being divided will never help us :/