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At a summit in Nairobi last week, Emmanuel Macron called himself a Pan-Africanist. The outrage was immediate — and fair. But the more interesting question is the one underneath it: what is Pan-Africanism actually, what does it demand, and how much of it have we built? This episode goes into the argument at the heart of the idea — Nkrumah, Nyerere, Senghor, three men who all believed in it and disagreed about almost everything else — and asks what it still requires of us today. 

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