The Pan African pantheon : prophets poets and philosophers With forty accessible essays on the key intellectual contributions to Pan Africanism this volume offers readers a fascinating insight into the intellectual thinking and contributions to Pan Africanism. The book explores the history of Pan Africanism and quest for reparations early pioneers of Pan Africanism as well as key activists and politicians and Pan African philosophy and literati. Diverse and key figures of Pan Africanism from Africa the Caribbean and America are covered by these chapters including: Edward Blyden W.E.B. Du Bois Marcus Garvey Amy Ashwood Garvey George Padmore Kwame Nkrumah Franz Fanon Amilcar Cabral Arthur Lewis Maya Angelou C.L.R. James Ruth First Ali Mazrui Wangari Maathai Thabo Mbeki Wole Soyinka Derek Walcott and Chimamanda Adichie. While acknowledging the contributions of these figures to Pan Africanism these essays are not just celebratory offering valuable criticism in areas where their subjects may have fallen short of their ideals.