New-Afrikanism
Political ideology
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New-Afrikanism is a black nationalist political ideology that regards African Americans as a separate, colonized nation in the United States with the right to self-determination. Formulated from the Black Power movement and the influence of such people as Malcolm X, this philosophy holds that descendants of African slaves constitute a captive nation that has the right to an independent socialist country in the heart of the Black Belt in the American South called the Republic of New Afrika along with full reparations for slavery in the United States.
Unlike the ideology of integration into the American political structure, New-Afrikanism focuses on the restoration of the African identity.[1][2]
The movement officially came to fruition in March 1968 at a nationalist conference in Detroit, Michigan, held by prominent nationalists like brothers Gaidi and Imari Obadele. Heavily inspired by the doctrines preached by Malcolm X, the conference formulated a provisional government, made a declaration of independence, and called for reparations worth billions of dollars from the United States government.
New-Afrikanism also sought cultural and psychological decolonization apart from territorial independence. Followers of the doctrine adopt African or Swahili names. Currently, various organizations such as the New Black Panther Party use the doctrine in current social activism and reparations advocacy.[3]