This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925 1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941 1998) and Walter Rodney (1942 1980). All three began their careers in the Diaspora and later turned toward Africa. This became the foundation for developing and solidifying a global force that would advance the struggles of Africans and people of African descent in the Diaspora.
Adeleke engages and explores this African-centered discourse of resistance which informed the collective struggles of these three men. The book...
This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925 1965), Stokely Carmichae...
This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The contributors approach the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, looking at images in children's and adolescent literature from Africa, and the African diaspora, from Nollywood and Hollywood movies, from popular magazines, and from youth cultures encountered directly through field experiences. The findings reveal that there are many...
This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they at...
African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the...
African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discou...
