Title: Pan-Africanism, and the politics of African citizenship and identity /
Authors: Falola, Toyin; Essien, Kwame.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Pan-Africanism.; African diaspora; Ethnicity Africa; Africa Emigration and immigration.
Abstract: There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism overlaps with the study of the African Diaspora and reverse migrations; how Diaspora studies has penetrated various disciplines while Pan-Africanism is located on the periphery of the field. The book argues that the gradual shift from Pan-African discourses has created a new pathway for engaging Pan-African ideology from academic and social perspectives. Also, the book raises questions about the recent political waves that have swept across North Africa and their implications to the study of twenty-first century Pan-African solidarity on the African continent. The ways in which African institutions are attracting and mobilizing returnees and Pan-Africanists with incentives as dual-citizenship for diasporans to support reforms in Africa offers a new alternative approach for exploring Pan-African ideology in the twenty-first century. Returnees are also using these incentives to gain economic and cultural advantage. The book will appeal to policy makers, government institutions, research libraries, undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars from many different disciplines.
Contents: Introduction / Toyin Falola and Kwame Essien -- Part 1. Historicizing pan-Africanism and the contradictions -- Chapter 1. Pan African theory's impact on the development of Afrocentric education in Jamaica / Jamaine Abidogun -- Chapter 2. "Africa, the land of our fathers": the emigration of Charlestonians to Liberia in the nineteenth century / Lawrence Aje -- Chapter 3. Liberia after creation: whither the pan-Africanist dream / Inyang Etim Bassey -- Chapter 4. Pan-Africanism and slave rebellions: the interconnections / Aminah Wallace -- Part 2. Pan-African citizenship, identity and entitlements: the place of pan-Africanism in reverse diaspora migrations -- Chapter 5. The global implications of pan Africanism and the establishment of "new communities" in Africa: the case of Victoria in southwest Cameroon / Richard Agbor A. Enoh -- Chapter 6. "Performance" in trans-Atlantic communities in Africa: the case of Brazilian-Africans and American-Africans in Ghana / Kwame Essien --^ Chapter 7. Mobilizing the African diaspora for development: the politics of dual citizenship in Ghana / George M. Bob-Milliar and Gloria K. Bob-Milliar -- Chapter 8. Citizens and strangers in the virgin forest together?: migrations and cross-cultural encounters in the oral histories of Sefwi Debiso community of western Ghana / Augustine Tawiah -- Part 3. Re-evaluating pan-Africanism, the challenges in the past and the way forward -- Chapter 9. Nationality and the pan-African state / Vincent Dodoo and Wilhelmina Donkoh -- Chapter 10. Critical departures in the practice of pan-Africanism in the new millennium / Harry Odamtten -- Chapter 11. Pan-Africanism and the place of Africa in contemporary world power politics / Sharon A. Omotoso and Emmanuel A. Layode -- Chapter 12. The spirit of pan-Africanism and nationalist consciousness: the way forward in the 21st century / Segun Ogungbemi --^ Chapter 13. Pan-Africanism in world politics: the geopolitics of the pan-African movement, 1900-2000 / G.N. Uzoigwe.