Overview
- Examines how early Black thinkers can help build a new Africa
- Brings together a global set of scholars
- Studies how key Black social theorists conceptualized Africa in their works
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This book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aimé Césaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so will these early thinkers’ ideas help in the building of a new Africa. The various chapters explore the proposition that the thoughts of early great Diaspora Black thinkers are still wellsprings of tenets that can be used to build a new Africa. The chapters examine how these thinkers conceptualized Africa in their works, with the main objective of delineating their conceptualizations to generate suggestions on how to build a new Africa.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa
Editors: Abdul Karim Bangura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66417-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-66416-8Published: 25 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-66419-9Due: 08 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-66417-5Published: 24 August 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 237
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Theory, Diaspora, Philosophy, general