“I know of no national boundaries where Negroes are concerned. The whole world will be my province until Africa is free” (Garvey). These words by Marcus Garvey perfectly illustrate the spirit of unification that has characterized the attitude of many people of African descent as a direct result of the callous treatment that Africa as a whole has suffered at the hands of Europeans. Europe not only deprived Africa of a significant resource: millions of lives that it stole and enslaved. Europe also plundered the continent with the brutal institution of colonization. The shackles of colonization have inspired great suffering in the lands and lives of Africans, examples include the exploitation of land, the exploitation of labor and, above all, the exploitation of the minds and spirits of Africans through inhumane treatment. The disabling affliction imposed on Africa by the white race was the driving force behind the idea of ​​pan-African consciousness. The narration at the beginning of the documentary King Leopold's Ghost best articulates the driving force of European colonialism. “Natural resources inspire the most unnatural greed.” Natural resources are the main reason why Europe found it necessary to reclaim Africa. As Cesaire points out in his essay Discourse on Colonialism, there were many superficial excuses given by Europeans for traveling to Africa, such as missionary work, extending the rule of law, and curing diseases. Cesaire argues that “no one colonizes innocently” (Cesaire 39). This statement is especially true of the Belgian colonizers of the Congo. Belgium almost destroyed the land of the Congo with the implementation of cash crops. Colonizers forced Africans to specialize and grow cash crops. These crops were not…half the paper…on the conscience of blacks. Both Africans robbed of their homeland and Africans whose homeland has been stolen share a common sense of pain with a common culprit in the white man. These shared feelings are what gave rise to the Pan-African movement. The idea behind the Pan-African movement is that “Africa must be redeemed and we must all pledge our manhood, our wealth and our blood to this sacred cause” (Lynch). Africa needed to be redeemed from the consequences of the exploitation it suffered at the hands of Europeans. Examples of these consequences are poverty, food shortages, corrupt political systems, and the displacement and separation of African children. This reasoning leads to the conclusion that a pan-African consciousness has developed as a direct result of the inhumane exploitation of people of African descent..