What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa s complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre s groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space as a fixed historic source for the African diaspora she envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics.Against the...