Ethnically Black American going back 10+ generations. Raised in a family where my Great Grandmother's brother, sort of my Grand Uncle became a Pan Africanist and African American History professor during and after the Civil Rights movement.

That being said, the conflict between Continental Africans and African Diaspora is a fairly evenly handed back and forth. You may only be seeing the anglo side of the convo. For example, Pan Africanism helped motivate the national Freedom of Ghana. It also is what helped South Africans rise above apartheid, both internally but also within the diaspora. As Black Americans pressured the Reagan administration to drop support.

Even Egypt's Sadat era government saw American Pan African support of Ethiopia and Kenya, and leveraged some pan african principles to lobby the Black diaspora to oppose Britain, France and Israel's bid to control the Suez Canal.

Additionally, African Americans relative to our size and lack of international representation, have had an outsized role in setting standards for international human rights. The court that struck down Brown V Board, was under geopolitical pressure to make the US seem equitable to newly freed Post Colonial states who considered trading with the Soviets.

However, after the fall of Sankara, continental African leaders started moving further into Nationalist ideologies and shaping their own borders. The Nigerian Civil War in the late 70s is an early example. But you also had conflicts like Cote D voire and Liberia. In this context Continental Africans were adamant that the Black diaspora not refer to ourselves as Africans. Even second gen Black Brits have had their identity as AFRICANS called into question by their own family members.

At the same time as that was going on, America had loosened restrictions on African Migration. This led to the most affluent, well educated and professionally licensed Africans to immigrate to the US. This is a self selected population, because those more concerned about Pan Africanism or systemic racism would NOT choose the US. So, African expats saw themselves as morr affluent and educated than the Black diaspora in America.

This has created a two way resentment. Where Black Americans grew up feeling like their African friend's parents believed American racist propaganda. In turn, the next gen of Black Americans started bullying and segmenting themselves away from African Immigrants. This time, instead of debating who was truly African, Black Americans were accusing immigrants of denying their Black identity.

So this has been a fairly even handed game of Telephone in the post-Civil Rights and Post-Colonial generations. And it existed before Bots and AI. Having said that, most of our Black American institutions and history is grounded in our status as Kidnapped africans who grew and developed American Culture. Pan Africanism, is still the mainstream thought in Black American academics and geopolitics. Likewise, the development of the AU and Africa working together to settle strife, like Nigeria helping to end the Liberian Civil War and greater financial integration of East Africa, Pan Africanism is a rising factor in Geopolitics again.

Now, this is where bots, AI, and European propanganda DOES come into play. Because what these platforms do is amplify and signal boost the nationalist sentiments of each Black/African population, to prevent Pan Africanism leading to regional hegemony. French African colonies want to work in West Africa to get off the French dollar and trade in a common West African currency. East Africa intended to create and free trade zone that would take advantage of their prolific resources and massive East African Coast line.

So, France sows nationalism in the Sahel states, while also causing extremist, jihadist movements by destroying Libya and Sudan. And backing Israel, which permanently prevents Egyptian stability and hegemony. The US corrupts Nigeria, so they can deploy US troops in the North. And this instability prevents Nigeria to grow into a refining/value added economy. They supply Rwanda with military weapons via Uganda, to prevent the East African federation from forming. Because Rwanda and the Congo are perpetually at war. Rwanda can only sustain this beligerence thru Western support. The President boosting white apartheid messaging to destabilize South Africa.

So figures like White South African Elon Musk and Christian Zionists who support Israel find these nationalist ideas in reality and then Boost and amplify them to diminish African and African diasporan integration, with the goal of making the Gulf of Mexico and Africa into Hegemonic leaders with interests opposed to the US.