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Contemporary Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa

Editat de Abdul Karim Bangura
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 oct 2024
This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa. This book examines these ideas, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to place Africa at the center of all intellectual discourses pertaining to African people everywhere while at the same time challenging the pervasive and pernicious Eurocentric myth of African people being inactive agents in history. These contributions from a global range of scholars across disciplines examine the work of contemporary great Black thinkers as sources that can be employed to help in the construction of a new Africa. Each chapter examines how these thinkers conceptualized Africa in their works, with the main objective of delineating their conceptualizations to generate suggestions on how to rebuild the continent.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031662768
ISBN-10: 3031662768
Ilustrații: XXX, 310 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Angela Y. Davis.- 2. Michael Eric Dyson.- 3. Maulana Karenga.- 4. Martin Luther King, Jr.- 5. Malcolm X.- 6. Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley.- 7. Toni Morrison.- 8. Walter Rodney.- 9. Peter Tosh.- 10. Sir Derek Alton Walcott.- 11. Alice Walker.- 12. Cornel Ronald West.- 13. Eric Eustace Williams.

Notă biografică

Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-In-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Center for Global Peace in the School of International Service at American University, USA. He is also the director of The African Institution, a visiting graduate professor of Regional Integration at the University of Cabo, a senior doctoral dissertations mentor of the CODESRIA College of Mentors, and the international director and adviser of the Centro Cultural Guanin in the Dominican Republic.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

"Two threads of belief are featured throughout this book: namely, the belief in the universal truth of the equality of peoples and the belief in education as a crucial phenomenon to improve the lives of African peoples. The Afrocentricity featured in this book is void of the reproduction of racial stereotypes that undergird cultural and genetic superiority of one racial group over another. Rather, the authors present a renewed examination of Afrocentricity that emphasizes the appreciation of African cultural, historical and political heritage in the development of the individual and the nation state. The authors lend support to the adage to know your history is to know yourself."
Dr. Ciyata Dinah Coleman, former Associate Professor, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa. This book examines these ideas, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to place Africa at the center of all intellectual discourses pertaining to African people everywhere while at the same time challenging the pervasive and pernicious Eurocentric myth of African people being inactive agents in history. These contributions from a global range of scholars across disciplines examine the work of contemporary great Black thinkers as sources that can be employed to help in the construction of a new Africa. Each chapter examines how these thinkers conceptualized Africa in their works, with the main objective of delineating their conceptualizations to generate suggestions on how to rebuild the continent.
Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-In-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Center for Global Peace in the School of International Service at American University, USA. He is also the director of The African Institution, a visiting graduate professor of Regional Integration at the University of Cabo, a senior doctoral dissertations mentor of the CODESRIA College of Mentors, and the international director and adviser of the Centro Cultural Guanin in the Dominican Republic.

Caracteristici

Contends that ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora can help build a new Africa Contains contributions from a global range of contributors across disciplines Provides an examination of the work of some of the most important contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora