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This Template is very badly designed. I came here from the page on African Philosophy, on which the template is included. The template contains some links relevant to African philosophy, like, e.g. a link to Cheikh Anta Diop. Since the main contains a link to the article about him already, ther is no need to have a second reference in the template. On the other hand, the template contains links to articles irrelevant to the topic of African Philosophy. There should not be, for example, a link from the African Philosophy article to the Kwanzaa article since Kwanzaa is neither an African thing (it is a part of Afroamerican culture, not of African culture) nor is it a philosophical topic. So why should this link be there. The informativeness of Wikipedia depends to a great deal on the relevance of the links. So for each article containing this template, the links are either redundant because they should be in the main article already or they are irrelevant. As a result, all of these links should be removed from the template. If these things are relevant for panafricanism, the should be referenced from the panafricanism artilce and that would be enough. Therefore, I have removed all of these links from the template. This template in its current form is a prime example of what a template should not be. Please note that this is a structural argument, saying nothing about the value of panafricanism. It would apply as well to any other template of this type. Nannus 19:25, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

hm, yes, and it is perfectly unclear why "Communism" and "Socialism" are linked. There is also {{Pan-Africanism}}, and it is unclear why we should clutter articles with two templates with the same scope. --dab (𒁳) 19:26, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Kwanzaa, although a very marginal culture and holiday in America, is still Pan-African and part of the growth of its diaspora. Perhaps for that reason alone it should be left. If it is removed, it should be done so for its marginality, not for its seemingly disconnect with Pan-Africanism.

Someone has thrown a link up to Hugo Chavez, but Chavez is not a Pan-African thinker, despite his support of national liberation movements in Africa.

Communism and Socialism could be dropped, but its there for the very fact that there has always been tremendous overlap in Pan-African struggles (See George Padmore, C.L.R. James, and the International African Service Bureau).

KB —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krisnabest (talk • contribs) 16:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)