Food dishes were heavily spiced in order to

Enhance the flavour of the food, but ok he other hand it masks the overripe flavour and taste of the meat.

The  pan-african movement  was an "emotional, cultural, psychological and ideological  movement  that began among the  african  dispora in the western hemisphere, for a closer  purpose, so that  african  people could feel secure, attain political, economic as well as psychological power visa vis other races or world regions" .