Abstract
Despite the lofty ideals on which Pan-Africanism was conceived over a hundred years ago, it has not led to a more secure Africa with a remarkable ethics of brotherhood and cooperation. Hence post-colonial Africa has recorded over a hundred wars with other illustrations of chaos and disorder. A plausible interpretation is either that Pan-Africanism does not square up to the demands of modern-day Africa or that the implementation of the ideology is faulty. The work adopts the first position and sets out to interrogate the ideals on which Pan-Africanism functions in post-colonial Africa. The central argument of the paper is that Africa's post-colonial challenges has strong internal demands that reinforce the external challenges and that without addressing the internal roots of these challenges by rethinking Pan-Africanism the challenges will persist. It proposes Pro-Africanism (defined as supportive Africanism) as a more viable ideology.