Prophets, poets and philosophers of the pan-African pantheon

Pan-Africanism will be outlined because the efforts to advertise the political, socioeconomic and cultural unity of Africa and its diaspora. I lately edited a 38-chapter quantity on The pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets and Philosophers (Jacana, 2020). With chapters by 37 African, Afro-Caribbean and African-American students on 36 main pan-African figures, the ebook seeks to contribute to curriculum transformation efforts globally.

Pan-Africanism was traditionally a response by Africans within the diaspora to the dual European plagues of slavery and colonialism. The 400-year transatlantic slave commerce brought about 12-million to 15-million Africans to be forcibly transported to the Caribbean and Americas. This was adopted by eight a long time of colonial rule in Africa. Fifteen years after the infamous Berlin Convention of 1884/1885 at which the foundations have been set by European imperialists for the partition of Africa, the pan-African motion was born when Trinidadian lawyer Henry Sylvester-Williams c…