[PDF] A Comparative Reading Of Pan Africanism And Afropolitanism eBook

Author : Andrew Nyongesa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2024-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040154069

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This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides questioning its relevance, these voices supplant essential tenets of pan-Africanism – Blackness, the narrative of Return, sanctity of the ancestral homeland, exposition of evils of colonialism and African Literature – with new postulations. These new suppositions deny race, accentuate onward migration and diminish the ancestral homeland to any ordinary city to globetrot. These voices liken any reminiscence of colonial evils to Afro-pessimism, pronounce African Literature dead on arrival and proceed to ‘substitute’ pan-Africanism through studies, which neglect pioneer and contemporary literary works, cultural productions, folklore, conversations on social media (blogs, Facebook, WhatsApp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black peoples themselves. This study adopts a design that interrogates literary works, data from questionnaires and social media to determine the relevance and influence of pan-Africanism and the new paradigm.

Author : Deirdre Patricia Hipwell
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN :

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This project seeks to present a comparative study of Pan-African emancipation ideologies. First, an examination of the benefits of comparative study will be undertaken with particular reference to its relevance when talking of Pan-Africanism. Second, a detailed analysis of the contrasting but nevertheless mutually influencing political traditions and contexts in the U.S. and in colonial Africa will be presented. And finally, this established comparative venue will be used to counterpoint the substantial thinking and actions of Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah who, as flexible representatives of differing formulations of Pan-Africanism, guide one to a greater understanidng of the overall concept.

Author : William Ackah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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A lively and accessible exploration of the changing dimensions of Pan-African thought and practice. Essential reading for anyone interested in politics, identity and development in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Author : Dominique Haensell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110722143

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This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism. Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment. Please read our interview with Dominique Haensell here: https://blog.degruyter.com/de-gruyters-10th-open-access-book-anniversary-dominique-haensell-and-her-winning-title-making-black-history/

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1135005192

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There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism overlaps with the study of the African Diaspora and reverse migrations; how Diaspora studies has penetrated various disciplines while Pan-Africanism is located on the periphery of the field. The book argues that the gradual shift from Pan-African discourses has created a new pathway for engaging Pan-African ideology from academic and social perspectives. Also, the book raises questions about the recent political waves that have swept across North Africa and their implications to the study of twenty-first century Pan-African solidarity on the African continent. The ways in which African institutions are attracting and mobilizing returnees and Pan-Africanists with incentives as dual-citizenship for diasporans to support reforms in Africa offers a new alternative approach for exploring Pan-African ideology in the twenty-first century. Returnees are also using these incentives to gain economic and cultural advantage. The book will appeal to policy makers, government institutions, research libraries, undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars from many different disciplines.

Author : Ras Makonnen
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2017-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1937306453

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A Guyanese by birth and a Kenyan by citizenship, Ras Makonnen would still regard these two aspects of his life as accidents of history—his roots and destiny are in the continent of Africa. For the last half of the twentieth century, he has striven, along with the other major architects of pan-Africanism, to reconcile the forces that still divide the continent. This volume is a further contribution to that struggle. Makonnen’s analysis of the pan-African movement starts in the former British Guiana (Guyana) in the early twenties, warms up to the North American scene where, as a young man, he got increasingly more aware of the African and diasporic African person’s position in world history. He then describes his days in London and Manchester from the mid-thirties to the fifties; Accra (Ghana) until the fall of Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 and thereafter Nairobi (Kenya), where he worked and made his transition. Although the narrative is peppered with the most delightful character sketches of early African and other Black leaders, the author’s main concern is to interpret the quality of life amongst Black people at home and abroad. He does so by employing a wide historical perspective and by infusing into his study of particular pan-African actors his knowledge of the intellectual and political climate at large. He produces in the process a vivid participator’s commentary on whole areas that have been quite neglected in conventional studies of pan-Africanism. Black intergroup relations in North America and the African diaspora in the Caribbean; race relations in Britain; Black intellectuals and the white Left; Black expatriates and African socialism—these are just a few of the themes examined against a background of individual famous personalities as well as others not documented before. With an autobiographical thread that runs throughout, Makonnnen’s narrative is a uniquely diversified pan-African portrait.

Author : Hakim Adi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1134689330

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Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of he last two-hundred years.