I. Reflections and testimonies -- Introduction: a redemption song -- Praise -- Teaching and mentoring a future politician -- Meeting Locksley at Makerere -- Journey of a quiet Pan-Africanist: historical and intellectual context -- International race relations or the politics of 'we' and 'they' -- The professor and the world: teacher, activist, and inspiration -- Pedagogy in practice: in honor of a teacher -- II. Essays: intellectual activism, institutions, women in PanAfricanism -- Pan-Africanist connectivity: rooted in Black/Africana studies -- African, African American and Caribbean connections: challenges and triumphs -- Black internationalism: scholarship and activism in Africa and the world -- Ghana's Du Bois Centre as an institution of PanAfricanism -- Adwa Pan-African University (APAU): conception and implementation -- Students of global Africa and Pan-African consciousness: engagements for changes in the 20th century and beyond -- On beauty and the possibilities of feminist PanAfricanism in Una Marson's The Moth and the Star -- When women stand up: the stories Yaa Asentawa and Leymah Gbowee -- Situating Afropolitanism and the politics of Africa rising -- Afterword: concluding and forward-looking reflections.
Summary:
"Pan-African Connections brings to the reader a combination of Reflections and Testimonies from writers, politicians, activists, colleagues; with essays on intellectual activism, the building of Pan-African institutions and the voices of women in Panafricanism. Stories abound from writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Anyang' Nyong'o. Locksley Edmondson who is featured in this collection, like Walter Rodney, lived and worked on the African continent physically, but also engaged Africa politically, culturally and intellectually in teaching and research in the Caribbean and the United States. The lives and work of these scholars embodied precisely the brining together of African, Caribbean and African-American Studies in the intellectual arena. Through this generation of intellectual/activists, the rubric of Panfricanism [sic] remains one of the key areas of the key areas of academic and political discourse." -- From the back cover.
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