In addition to this, the rising killings of fellow Africans in xenophobic attacks especially in South Africa has left the continent more heated than in the past.This has also negatively impacted continental relations and questions the relevance of Pan Africanism and other indigenous African philosophies such as Ima Edi Obio and Ubuntu.
The foundation of African unity appears to be under attack in new spectacles of lynching of “foreigners” right on the African soil.There is a critical need to reassess the very foundations of our existence as peoples of Africa as there is also the urgent need to reappraise and envision new thoughts, perspectives, strategies and methods in promoting Pan Africanism and forging a new African identity especially to emerging generations and demographics of Africans without the benefit of sufficient exposure to the tenets and principles of this ideology.