Contemporary Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa

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.

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.