The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism provides an international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary overview of, and approach to, Pan-Africanism, making an invaluable contribution to the ongoing evolution of Pan-Africanism and demonstrating its continued significance in the 21st century.
The handbook features expert introductions to, and critical explorations of, the most important historic and current subjects, theories, and controversies of Pan-Africanism and the evolution of black internationalism. Pan-Africanism is explored and critically engaged from different disciplinary points of view, emphasizing the multiplicity of perspectives and foregrounding an intersectional approach. The contributors provide erudite discussions of black internationalism, black feminism, African feminism, and queer Pan-Africanism alongside surveys of black nationalism, black consciousness, and Caribbean Pan-Africanism. Chapters on neo-colonialism, decolonization, and Africanization give way to chapters on African social movements, the African Union, and the African Renaissance. Pan-African aesthetics are probed via literature and music, illustrating the black internationalist impulse in myriad continental and diasporan artists’ work.
Including 36 chapters by acclaimed established and emerging scholars, the handbook is organized into seven parts, each centered around a comprehensive theme:
- Intellectual origins, historical evolution, and radical politics of Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Africanist theories
- Pan-Africanism in the African diaspora
- Pan-Africanism in Africa
- Literary Pan-Africanism
- Musical Pan-Africanism
- The contemporary and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century
The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism is an indispensable source for scholars and students with research interests in continental and diasporan African history, sociology, politics, economics, and aesthetics. It will also be a very valuable resource for those working in interdisciplinary fields, such as African studies, African American studies, Caribbean studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, women and gender studies, and queer studies.
Introduction: On the Intellectual Elasticity and Political Plurality of Pan-Africanism
Reiland Rabaka
Part 1: Intellectual Origins, Historical Evolution, and Radical Politics of Pan-Africanism
1. The Origins and Evolution of Pan-Africanism
Mark Malisa and Thelma Quardey Missedja
2. The Politics of Pan-Africanism
William B. Ackah
3. The Political Economy of Pan-Africanism: Imagination and Renaissance
Abu Girma Moges and Mammo Muchie
4. From Pan-Africanism to Black Internationalism
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne
Part 2: Pan-Africanist Theories
5. Black Nationalism
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
6. Neo-Colonialism, Nkrumah and Africa-Europe Ties
Mark Langan
7. Pan-Africanism and Decolonization: Between the Universal and the Particular
Andrew W.M. Smith
8. Africanization: Historical and Normative Dimensions
Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
9. Black Consciousness
Ian M. Macqueen
10. Afrocentricity
Molefi Kete Asante
11. African Feminism
Marilyn Ossome
12. LGBTQI+ People in Africa
Surya Monro, Zethu Matebeni and Vasu Reddy
Part 3: Pan-Africanism in the African Diaspora
13. W.E.B. Du Bois: From Pioneering Pan-Negroism to Revolutionary Pan-Africanism
Reiland Rabaka
14. Caribbean Pan-Africanism
Rodney Worrell
15. Pan-Africanism and the African Diaspora in Europe
Michael McEachrane
16. Pan-Africanism in France
Annette Joseph-Gabriel
17. "Long Live African Women Wherever They Are!": Black Women’s Pan-African Organizing during the Black Power Era
Ashley D. Farmer
Part 4: Pan-Africanism in Africa
18. Pan-Africanism in the Court: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Politics of Imperial Ethiopia
Fikru Negash Gebrekidan
19. Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism in West Africa
Matteo Grilli
20. Amilcar Cabral, Cabralism, and Pan-Africanism: The Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization
Reiland Rabaka
21. Pan-Africanism and the Anti-Colonial Movement in Southern Africa, 1950s-1990s
Tavengwa Gwekwerere
22. Women in Africa and Pan-Africanism
Kathleen Sheldon
23. Queer Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Africa
Adriaan Van Klinken
24. African Social Movements
Franco Barchiesi
25. The African Union and the Institutionalisation of Pan-Africanism
Timothy K. Murithi
Part 5: Literary Pan-Africanism
26. Literary Pan-Africanism: Overview/Survey Essay
Christel N. Temple
27. Literary Pan-Africanism in African Literature: The Epics of Chaka Zulu and Sundiata Keita
Babacar M’Baye
28. Literary Pan-African in Caribbean Literature
Kersuze Simeon-Jones
29. "…Black People, Come In, Wherever You Are…": Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalism in the Black Arts Movement
Anthony J. Ratcliff
30. Maya Angelou’s Afrocentric Journalism: A Contribution to Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance
Simphiwe Sesanti
Part 6: Musical Pan-Africanism
31. Pan-Africanism in Jazz
Karlton E. Hester
32. Pan-Africanism in Funk
Rickey Vincent
33. Pan-African Aesthetics: Pan-Africanism in Afro-Beat
Shawn O’Neal
34. Hip Hop and Pan-Africanism
Harry Nii Koney Odamtten
Part 7: The Contemporary and Continued Relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century
35. The Contemporary Relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century
Mueni wa Muiu
36. Pan-Africanism and African Unity
Guy Martin
Biography
Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Additionally, he is a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays, as well as more than a dozen books including: Du Bois’s Dialectics; Africana Critical Theory; Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology; Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization; Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory; and The Negritude Movement.
"Edited by Rabaka (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder), this scholarly handbook provides a dynamic view of Pan-Africanism by exploring the Pan-African idea, movement, and its scholarship from international, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Divided into seven parts, this reference offers researchers a complete and current overview of the origins, theories, literature, philosophical, and artistic influences that have shaped Pan-Africanism, focusing on both continental and diaspora African cultures, history, economics, and political and social movements. The handbook's 36 chapters, authored by expert and emerging scholars in the field, offer researchers an impressive range of scholarly yet accessible introductions to current and historic topics that include "African Feminism," "LGBTQI+ People in Africa," "Hip Hop and Pan-Africanism," "The politics of Pan Africanism," and decolonization, among others. The handbook's detailed coverage will provide undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers with a welcome array of scholarly voices to explain the evolution, importance, and future of Pan-Africanism. This text will be a valuable addition to any academic library collection supporting such disciplines as African, African American, and Caribbean studies; history; literature; music; political science; queer studies; and women and gender studies." --L. Lampert, California State University--Northridge
