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The Pan-African orogeny was a series of major Neoproterozoic orogenic events which related to the formation of the supercontinents Gondwana and Pannotia about 600 million years ago. [1] This orogeny is also known as the Pan-Gondwanan or Saldanian Orogeny . [ 2 ]
The notion that Gondwana was assembled during the Late Precambrian from two older fragments along the Pan-African Mozambique Belt was first proposed in the early 1980s. [3] A decade later this continental collision was named the East African Orogeny, but it was also realised that this was not the simple bringing together of two halves.
Festival panafricain d’Alger 1969 is a 1969 Algerian documentary film about the Pan-African Festival of Algiers of 1969, also known as PANAF. The film was directed by William Klein , who was commissioned by the Algerian government to direct a film capturing the 12-day event. [ 1 ]
The fold belts surrounding the WAC were folded and metamorphosed during the Pan-African and/or the Variscan orogenies. [ 7 ] The WAC underlies the modern countries of Morocco , Algeria , Mauritania , Senegal , The Gambia , Guinea Bissau , Guinea , Mali , Burkina Faso , Sierra Leone , Liberia , Ivory Coast , Ghana , Togo and Benin .
The Pan-African flag, designed by the UNIA and formally adopted on August 13, 1920. Marcus Garvey (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) : A prominent Pan-Africanist.In this 1922 picture, Garvey is shown in a military uniform as the "Provisional President of Africa" during a parade on the opening day of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World at Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City.
Pan-African colours is a term that may refer to two different sets of colours: . Green, yellow and red, the colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology due to the country's history of having avoided being taken over by a colonial power.
The Black Star of Africa is a black five-pointed star (★) symbolizing Africa in general and Ghana in particular. The Black Star Line, founded in 1919 by Marcus Garvey as part of the Back-to-Africa movement, modelled its name on that of the White Star Line, changing the colour from white to black to symbolise ownership by black people rather than white people.
Pan-African organizations (2 C, 28 P) ... Pages in category "Pan-Africanism in Africa" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.