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The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers edited by College of Johannesburg Professor Adekeye Adebajo, and which supplies insights into Pan Africanism and its function gamers through the years has simply clinched a world three e-book deal The e-book is printed regionally by Jacana Media and its contributors are main voices on pan Africanism from the African continent in addition to from the Daispora…
Internationally acclaimed Manchester College Press has acquired the rights to publish within the US, the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Legendary Jamaican publishers Ian Randle Publishers will publish for The West Indies, whereas BookCraft Africa, who publish the work of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, will launch their version in Nigeria. Jacana Media’s publishing director Bridget Impey says she is “thrilled that the title has discovered a house with such an illustrious group of publishers.
We all know that The Pan-African Pantheon is destined to be a core instructing textual content, but it surely additionally manages to captivate and educate the lay reader. It’s such a welcome addition to the bookshelves in a time of #BlackLivesMatter.” Thomas Darkish, senior commissioning editor at Manchester College Press, feedback: “We’re delighted to have labored with Jacana Media to safe these publishing rights for this thrilling and definitive work on Pan-African thinkers.
We need to congratulate the contributors of this work. It’s fantastic that Pan-Africanism has such a large common enchantment.” Manchester College Press will publish within the UK in March 2021 and within the US in Might 2021. “A serious contribution to our understanding of the life and work of key figures within the historical past of Pan-Africanism, offered by students from Africa, the Caribbean, the US and Europe.” – Professor Hakim Adi, College of Chichester in England. “This e-book is a must-read for college kids and practitioners within the political, socio-economic, and cultural autonomy and self-reliant improvement of exiled Africans and Africans on the continent.” – Professor Kwame Akonor, Seton Corridor College, United States “This e-book makes a singular contribution to the literature on Pan-Africanism.
It not solely analyzes Pan-Africanism as a faculty of thought, however connects this mental considering to the lived experiences of those that practiced and promoted this worldview. Such a wealthy interrogation of Pan-Africanism as a faculty of thought is each well timed, and can stand the check of time on bookshelves for years to come back.” – Professor Krista Johnson, Howard College, United States “This quantity constitutes a outstanding piece of scholarship, given its onceptualization, scope of thematic protection, and interesting vary of eminent African and Diaspora personalities, encompassing the scope and promise for constructing a brand new ‘people-driven Pan-Africanism’.
This can be a quantity deserving to be learn and re-read, mirrored on, broadly disseminated and debated – it’s certainly a tour de pressure.” – Dr Patrick Gomes, former Secretary-Common of the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (OACPS) .
In regards to the e-book This e-book makes a singular contribution to the literature on Pan-Africanism by offering vigorous biographical essays of 36 main Pan-African figures by a various and distinguished group of African, Caribbean, and African-American students.
They look at historic and modern Pan-Africanism as an ideology of emancipation and unity. The amount covers well-known Pan-Africanists corresponding to W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Amy Ashwood Garvey, C.L.R. James, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Frantz Fanon, Steve Biko, and Thabo Mbeki, in addition to well-liked figures not usually recognized with mainstream Pan-Africanism corresponding to Maya Angelou, Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, Miriam Makeba, Ruth First, Wangari Maathai, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, V.Y. Mudimbe, Léopold Senghor, Malcolm X, Bob Marley, and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
The e-book additionally covers subjects such because the historical past and pioneers of Pan-Africanism; the hunt for reparations; politicians; poets; activists; in addition to Pan-Africanism within the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and its musical activists. This can be a complete and numerous introductory reader for specialists and normal readers alike.
In regards to the Editor Professor Adekeye Adebajo is the Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Dialog (IPATC) on the College of Johannesburg in South Africa. Professor Adebajo is the writer of six books, together with Constructing Peace in West Africa; The Curse of Berlin: Africa after the Chilly Conflict; UN Peacekeeping in Africa; Thabo Mbeki: Africa’s Thinker-King; and Essays on Nigeria and South Africa. He’s co-editor or editor of 9 books on Africa’s worldwide relations.
Professor Adebajo holds a doctorate from Oxford College in England, and is a columnist for Enterprise Day (South Africa), The Guardian (Nigeria), and The Gleaner (Jamaica).
