The growing awareness and appendage of "black is beautiful" is a not a contemporary phenomenon but a contemporaneous wave deeply rooted in one of the most elusive coinage. Africans from time immemorial had in its own right and way developed and advanced the environment in which he lived, taking advantage of all nature provided. It was a one human entity whose development and civilisation was not in any way inferior to western civilisations displaying the earliest techniques of environmental subjugation. Africa flourished immensely to the attraction of all races in agriculture, arts and crafts, and state administration with copious proofs of Western Sudanese Empires, the Dahomey Kingdom, Guinea forest states of Oyo and Benin Empires, infamous Saifawa dynasty which began in the 8 th century and lasted a thousand years. In sharing the economic prosperity by projected by Africa, the Arabs bridges the hitherto communication barrier of the Sahara desert to reach the prosperous people. The hitherto calmness was upset by the Europeans notably the Portuguese early comers who aimed at breaking the monopoly of the Arabs over West African trade; whose pursuit soon subtly metamorphosed into an ungodly obnoxious trade in sweat and blood which altered the dignity and destroyed the hitherto peaceful civilisation and development and a fairly self sufficient Africa. It placed the black race on the pedestal of inconsequential and worthless race ... which none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity... Though a plethoral of literature exist on Pan Africanism, there is the paucity of engagement of Pan African ideas in the explanation of solutions to African problems. This paper adopts analytical and descriptive methods of analysis through secondary sources.
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