1. W.E.B. DuBois
While in Paris, DuBois organized a Pan-African conference to bring the attention to the problems of Africans around the world. He believed that the only way Africans could be free anywhere, was to be free everywhere. DuBois attended the Pan-African conference in 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1945 and was named by the international leaders as the "Father of Pan-Africanism" (Hynes). ... At the age of ninety-three, DuBois began work on the Encyclopedia Africana, a work on Africans and people of African decent throughout the world (W.E.B.). ... The President Kwame Nkrumah welcomed DuBois and deemed hi...
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