Africa and its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas
Arno Sonderegger editor Tunde Adeleke editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:29th Jun '23
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
The chapters in Africa and its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas provide fresh and insightful perspectives for understanding the complexities and changing dimensions of the African Diaspora, the relationship of Africa to the increasingly diverse and global dimensions of its Diaspora, and reconceptualization of Pan-Africanism in such a way that it effectively captures different aspects of the historical and complicated relationships between Africa and its Diasporas. The chapters, which are written from interdisciplinary perspectives, are conceptually sound, theoretically insightful, and methodologically innovative. This book is an invaluable addition to the growing literature on Diasporas in general, and the African Diaspora in particular. -- Jeremiah Dibua, Morgan State University
This anthology is a critical addition to the African diaspora studies canon, highlighting the works of an interdisciplinary cast of leading and rising scholars in the field. The essays in this volume represent a generative confluence of ideas about diasporic analytical frames, identity constructs and formations, religion and ritual technologies, politics, and speculative futures that will be vital contributions to discourse about Pan-Africanism and the Africa-Diaspora nexus for many years to come. -- Walter C. Rucker, Emory University
ISBN: 9781666940190
Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm x 19mm
Weight: 513g
234 pages