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.
Tunde Adeleke is professor of history and director of African American studies at Iowa State University. Arno Sonderegger is senior lecturer for African history and societies in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna.
Preface Introduction by Tunde Adeleke & Arno Sonderegger Part I: Reflections on Diaspora and Africa through Time and Space Chapter 1: Diaspora: Paradigmatic Shift and Implications for Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century by Tunde Adeleke Chapter 2: Trends and Complexities of the Africa-Diasporan Nexus by Felix Kumah-Abiwu Chapter 3: New Dimensions of Diaspora: Modernity, Heritage Tourism and the 'Black Star of Africa' by Alma Jean Billingslea Brown Part II: Reflections on Spiritual Culture and Resistance in Art and Life Chapter 4: An Assembly of 21 Spirit Nations: The Pan-Africanist Pantheon of Haitian Vodou's African Lwa by Kyrah Malika Daniels Chapter 5: 'Nya-Binghi': Rastafarian Pan-Africanism from Moscow to Ethiopia by Dominik Fruhwirth Chapter 6: 'Jes Grew' as A Metaphor for African American and Pan-African Resistance in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo by Babacar M`Baye Part III: Reflections on Pan-African Histories and Options Chapter 7: Questioning Diaspora: George Padmore, Colonial Fascism and the Route to Marxist Pan-Africanism by Arno Sonderegger Chapter 8: On Memory, Reckoning, and Speculative Futures: Pan-Africanism, Afropolitanism, and Afrofuturism by Saheed Yinka Adejumobi About the Contributors
