Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism

Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Additionally, he is a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is the author of more than 50 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays, as well as more than a dozen books including: Du Bois’s Dialectics; Africana Critical Theory; Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology; Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization; Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory; and The Negritude Movement.

Introduction: On the Intellectual Elasticity and Political Plurality of Pan-Africanism Part 1: Intellectual Origins, Historical Evolution, and Radical Politics of Pan-Africanism 1. The Origins and Evolution of Pan-Africanism 2. The Politics of Pan-Africanism 3. The Political Economy of Pan-Africanism: Imagination and Renaissance 4. From Pan-Africanism to Black Internationalism Part 2: Pan-Africanist Theories 5. Black Nationalism 6. Neo-Colonialism, Nkrumah and Africa-Europe Ties 7. Pan-Africanism and Decolonization: Between the Universal and the Particular 8. Africanization: Historical and Normative Dimensions 9. Black Consciousness 10. Afrocentricity 11. African Feminism 12. LGBTQI+ People in Africa Part 3: Pan-Africanism in the African Diaspora 13. W.E.B. Du Bois: From Pioneering Pan-Negroism to Revolutionary Pan-Africanism 14. Caribbean Pan-Africanism 15. Pan-Africanism and the African Diaspora in Europe 16. Pan-Africanism in France 17. "Long Live African Women Wherever They Are!": Black Women’s Pan-African Organizing during the Black Power Era Part 4: Pan-Africanism in Africa 18. Pan-Africanism in the Court: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Politics of Imperial Ethiopia 19. Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism in West Africa 20. Amilcar Cabral, Cabralism, and Pan-Africanism: The Dialectic of Revolutionary Decolonization and Revolutionary Re-Africanization 21. Pan-Africanism and the Anti-Colonial Movement in Southern Africa, 1950s-1990s 22. Women in Africa and Pan-Africanism 23. Queer Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Africa 24. African Social Movements 25. The African Union and the Institutionalisation of Pan-Africanism Part 5: Literary Pan-Africanism 26. Literary Pan-Africanism: Overview/Survey Essay 27. Literary Pan-Africanism in African Literature: The Epics of Chaka Zulu and Sundiata Keita 28. Literary Pan-African in Caribbean Literature 29. "…Black People, Come In, Wherever You Are…": Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalism in the Black Arts Movement 30. Maya Angelou’s Afrocentric Journalism: A Contribution to Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance Part 6: Musical Pan-Africanism 31. Pan-Africanism in Jazz 32. Pan-Africanism in Funk 33. Pan-African Aesthetics: Pan-Africanism in Afro-Beat 34. Hip Hop and Pan-Africanism Part 7: The Contemporary and Continued Relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century 35. The Contemporary Relevance of Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century 36. Pan-Africanism and African Unity