Global Africans

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, US. Cacee Hoyer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Southern Indiana, US.

Introduction

Part I. Shifting Identities

1. Diaspora Intellectuals, Alienation, and the Production of Africa in the Euro-American Academy

2. Brothers of the Trade: A New Direction in Examining the Intersections of Racial Framing and Identity Processes upon African-Americans and African Immigrants in America

3. Paradoxes and Contradictions between African Diasporas and Resident Africans in the Search for an Identity: A Nigerian Outlook

4. Mobile Communities of the Indian Ocean: A Brief Study of Siddi and Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad City, India

5. Reinventing the Nation in Africa: The Political Writings of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka

Part II: Ethnicity and African Agency

6. From Brain-Drain to Brain-Gain: Interrogating Migration, Deskilling, and Return Migration in Contemporary Nigeria

7. Educação e Ações Afirmativas: Redefining Multicultural Legalisms, Justiciability of Rights, and the [In]clusion of African-descendant Peoples in Higher Education in Brazil

8. Back to Africa: Roy Campbell’s Voorslag: A Magazine of South African Life and Art and its Stand against Racial Inequality

9. ‘Nobody Knows De Troubles I’ve Seen’: A Discourse Analysis of Selected Afro-American Protest Music and Their Relevance to Contemporary Issues

10. "They were Revolutionaries!" Malcolm X and Jomo Kenyatta’s Pan-Africanism, 1960-1965

Part III: Race and Populations at Stake

11. Mutations of Slavery: Prostitution and Women Trafficking in Contemporary Nigerian Novels

12. Forging Home: Local and Global Intersections in the Postconflict Reintegration of Liberian Returnee Refugees

13. Eat, Speak, and Play Like Our Ancestors: A Case of Children from Madagascar in America