Africa and Its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas

Tunde Adeleke; Arno Sonderegger

doi:10.5771/9781666940206

Summary

Africa and its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas edited by Tunde Adeleke and Arno Sonderegger is an interdisciplinary study of the changing and complex nature of the Africa-Black Diaspora relationship. The contributors highlight the problems and challenges of this relationship and provide strategies for developing a more functional and mutually beneficial engagement in a radically changing global environment. This book presents new methodological approaches and research to study the many dimensions and complexities of Africa and its Diasporas. Collectively, this book addresses three vital themes. First, it foregrounds new and emerging forces reshaping the Africa-Black Diaspora nexus. Second, it highlights new and interdisciplinary approaches to “Diaspora” and “Pan-Africanism” (culture, religion, ideology, literature, philosophy, and epistemology). Third, it examines factors infusing the transformation in, and challenges of, African Diaspora and Pan-Africanist collaborations, and possible strategies of strengthening the relationship.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4019-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4020-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 224
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Diaspora No access Pages 11 - 34
Trends and Complexities of the Africa-Black Diaspora Nexus No access Pages 35 - 52
New Dimensions of Diaspora‌‌‌, Modernity, Heritage Tourism and the “Black Star of Africa” No access Pages 53 - 66
An Assembly of Twenty-One Spirit Nations No access Pages 67 - 104
“Nya-Binghi!” Rastafarian Pan-Africanism from Moscow to Ethiopia‌‌ No access Pages 105 - 132
‘Jes Grew’ as a Metaphor for African American and Pan-African Resistance‌‌ in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo No access Pages 133 - 154
Questioning Diaspora No access Pages 155 - 182
On Memory, Reckoning, and Speculative Futures No access Pages 183 - 216
Index No access Pages 217 - 220
About the Contributors No access Pages 221 - 224