A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar (Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature)

By: Andrew Nyongesa and John Mugubi

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Synopsis: This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides questioning its relevance, these voices supplant essential tenets of pan-Africanism – Blackness, the narrative of Return, sanctity of the ancestral homeland, exposition of evils of colonialism and African Literature – with new postulations. These new suppositions deny race, accentuate onward migration and diminish the ancestral homeland to any ordinary city to globetrot. These voices liken any reminiscence of colonial evils to Afro-pessimism, pronounce African Literature dead on arrival and proceed to ‘substitute’ pan-Africanism through studies, which neglect pioneer and contemporary literary works, cultural productions, folklore, conversations on social media (blogs, Facebook, WhatsApp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black peoples themselves. This study adopts a design that interrogates literary works, data from questionnaires and social media to determine the relevance and influence of pan-Africanism and the new paradigm.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040154083
Related ISBNs:: 9781040154069, 9781032772226, 9781003481904
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/06/24
Copyrighted By:: Andrew Nyongesa and John Mugubi, The right of Andrew Nyongesa and John Mugubi to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.