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Record Nr.

UNINA9910882897103321

Autore

Bangura Abdul Karim

Titolo

Contemporary Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa / / edited by Abdul Karim Bangura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031662775

3031662776

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages)

Disciplina

305.896

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Emigration and immigration

Philosophy, African

Social Theory

Diaspora Studies

African Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Angela Y. Davis -- 2. Michael Eric Dyson -- 3. Maulana Karenga -- 4. Martin Luther King, Jr -- 5. Malcolm X -- 6. Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley -- 7. Toni Morrison -- 8. Walter Rodney -- 9. Peter Tosh -- 10. Sir Derek Alton Walcott -- 11. Alice Walker -- 12. Cornel Ronald West -- 13. Eric Eustace Williams.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contends that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa. This book examines these ideas, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to place Africa at the center of all intellectual discourses pertaining to African people everywhere while at the same time challenging the pervasive and pernicious Eurocentric myth of African people being inactive agents in history. These contributions from a global range of scholars across disciplines examine the work of contemporary great Black thinkers as sources that can be employed to help in the construction of a new Africa. Each chapter examines how these thinkers conceptualized Africa



in their works, with the main objective of delineating their conceptualizations to generate suggestions on how to rebuild the continent.