Word.ws English Dictionary

Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism noun: a sociopolitical movement seeking to unify people of ancestral African ethnicities (in Africa and in diasporas) into a global community.

Noun (1)

Pan-Africanism (uncountable)

  1. A sociopolitical movement seeking to unify people of ancestral African ethnicities (in Africa and in diasporas) into a global community.

Noun (2) capitalized: pan-Africanism

pan-Africanism (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pan-Africanism.

Forms of Pan-Africanism

alternative formpan-Africanism
alternative formPanafricanism

Origin of Pan-Africanism

From pan- + African + -ism.

Words formed from Pan-Africanism

Questions about Pan-Africanism

What does Pan-Africanism mean?
Pan-Africanism means a sociopolitical movement seeking to unify people of ancestral African ethnicities (in Africa and in diasporas) into a global community.
What part of speech is Pan-Africanism?
Pan-Africanism is a noun.

Words near Pan-Africanism in the dictionary

  1. pan theisms
  2. Pan's-pipes
  3. pan-
  4. Pan-Abrahamic
  5. Pan-African
  6. Pan-Africanism
  7. Pan-Africanist
  8. Pan-Africanists
  9. Pan-Africans
  10. Pan-Altaism
  11. Pan-Altaist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Pan-Africanism (page history and authors); pan-Africanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Pan-Africanism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pan-africanism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.