Description: This book succinctly interrogates Pan-Africanism from its early beginning to the present and into the future. It deviates from the traditional approach of many scholars and instead offers a more engaging and instructive approach to the study and understanding of a global pheno...
Brief description: Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is professor of political science and a member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University.
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"This book will ignite needed conversation about the global significance of the predicament of Africa and African descended people in the local and international imagination of continental and diaspora Africans." --H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Ohio State University
"This book presents a comprehensive survey of Pan-Africanism, from its roots in the African resistance to enslavement and colonial tyranny by Europeans, to contemporary efforts at building African unity in the continent and strengthening solidarity with all the peoples of African descent around the world. The authors do an excellent job in documenting the struggles of black people worldwide, including those living in Asia, who are often forgotten. The book is so rich in looking at different facets of Pan-Africanism that it will enhance the teaching of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies to undergraduates, while providing new and exciting reading material to all those willing to learn more about this emancipatory movement." --Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill