Abstract EN:

Stokely Carmichael who became Kwame Ture in 1979 was born in 1941 in Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) In 1952, aged eleven, he left his birth place and moved to the United States and in September 1960, he joined the Civil Rights movement which had. Been fighting for black Americans' constitutional rights. In June 1966 however, Stokely Carmichael launched the black nationalist concept Black Power which rejected the values and policies of the Civil Rights movement and advocated the political and economic independence of American blacks while asking them to be proud of their African cultural heritage. Black Power propelled Stokely Carmichael at the center of the American and international political arena and he soon became a young black American controversial and charismatic leader too. But in January 1969, Stokely Carmichael left the African-American movement and settled in Conakry in Guinea where he endorsed the political views of African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sékou Touré and became until his death in November 1998 a defender of continental pan-africanism. The passage of Stokely Carmichael from the black movement to the pan-africar movement reduced his political struggle to propagating within the African-American community the political ideas of his African mentors that he conceived as the solution of the problems that blacks over the world faced.