We, the PanAfrikans
Subtitle: Essays on the global Black experience
Publisher: Edward W. Blyden Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780914110002
Subjects: Africa; Civilization; Colonial influence; Pan-Africanism
First sentence: Before beginning to talk to you about PanAfrikanism I need to clarify two very important points.  First of all, you have probably noticed that Afrika is spelled with a "k".  I have followed that convention throughout this book, unless the word is part of a quotation or proper name, because it is the spelling used by most traditional Afrikan languages.  Several PanAfrikan educators and nationalists use the "k" when referring to the Afrikan continent and its people worldwide, for example, Rev. Ishakamusa Barashango (United States) and Dimela Yekwai (Great Britain).  Secondly, when I speak of "people of Afrikan descent" I am referring to all Afrikans on the continent as well as all those in the Diaspora with Afrikan ancestors or who consider themselves Afrikan.
Description: Personal message from Professor Kiteme:

These essays were born out of a series of lectures which evolved over a period of many years.  Every time I gave one of the talks, whether at the City College of the City University of New York, where I have taught since 1968, or at some other institution in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean or Afrika, the positive feedback from my audience told me that a crystallization of these ideas in written form would be useful to my people.

Between 1969 and 1979 I wrote a series of about twenty-five articles based on the lectures, collectively entitled, "Black America, Africa and the Black World."  The pieces were published in over twenty magazines, journals and newspapers on the Afrikan continent and her Diaspora. 

As an educator, and as my philosophy evolved, developed, and matured over the years, I gradually became aware that a relevant education for our people was of paramount importance but sadly lacking.  My research and observations demonstrated to me that a PanAfrikan education, i.e., one that takes into account the entire scope of Africentric knowledge, thought and world-view, was the only feasible one.  I began revising, improving and enlarging upon my original ideas in the hope that students, teachers  and parents would find something applicable  to themselves, their students or their children.  This was the basis for compiling the book.
Notes: TO ALL MY PEOPLE OF AFRIKAN DESCENT
WHOSE BLEAK PAST, TUMULTUOUS PRESENT, AND HOPEFUL FUTURE
PROMPTED ME TO UNDERTAKE THIS TASK
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: PART I; title: Chapter 1   The PanAfrikan World; title: Chapter 2   The Afrikan Peoples After White World War II; title: PART II; title: Chapter 3   What Europeans Call Afrikans in the Diaspora; title: Chapter 4   What Europeans Call Afrikans on the Continent; title: Chapter 5   What Afrikans Call Themselves; title: PART III; title: Chapter 6   Brainwashing and De-brainwashing; title: Chapter 7   Racism as an Ideology; title: PART IV; title: Chapter 8   Sexism in Afrika; title: Chapter 9   Afrikan Women in Nation-Building; title: Chapter 10  The Impact of Market Women in Afrika: The Kenya Model; title: Chapter 11  Afrikan Women in Wars of Liberation; title: PART V; title: Chapter 12  Afrikan Traditional Medicine; title: Chapter 13  The Impact of Christianity in Afrika; title: Chapter 14  Asian Exploitation in East Afrika: PanAfrikan Implications; title: PART VI; title: Chapter 15  Education in a Colonial Situation: The Kenya Model; title: Chapter 16 Conclusion: Philosophy, Ideology and Objectives for a PanAfrikan Education; title: APPENDICES; title: Appendix A  PanAfrikan Chronological Synopsis; title: Appendix B  PanAfrikan Permanent Missions to the United Nations; title: Appendix C  A Compendium of Afrikan Riddles; title: Appendix D  Suggested Reading; title: Index