This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. 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.
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, Whatapp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black people 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.
Introduction
1 Relevance of primordial Identities: Pan-Africanism in the face of
Globalisation
1.1 Background
1.2 Review of Related Literature
1.3 Review of diasporic and Global Literatures on Pan Africanism and
Afropolitanism
1.4 Review of scholarship from Africa
1.5 Statement of the Problem
1.6 Objectives of the Study
1.7 Procedure and Methodology
1.8 Data Analysis and Interpretation
1.9 Pan-Africanist and Afropoliltanist readings of artifacts and cultural
productions: Justification of the Study
1.10 Outline of Book
Chapters
2 Come Back Babar: The Place of Pan-Africanism in Black Literatures
2.1 introduction
2.2 The Beauty of Mother Africa: postcolonial poetry, songs and attendant
values
2.3 The Untold Stories: African Prose and the Reality of Racism
2.4 Life Writing and Blackness: Racism and African Culture in Selected
Autobiographies
2.5 Black, Beauty and African Diaspora: Revitalisation of Black Values and
Harlem Renaissance
2.6 Blackness and Folklore: Pan Africanist Voice in Selected Folklore and
quotes
2.7 Influence of pan-Africanism from Surveys and Social Media: Discussion and
Results
Conclusion
List of figures
References
3 Frivolity of Race: Afropolitanism and Validity of Class in Contemporary
Literature and Folklore
3.1 introduction
3.2 Black or WhiteOne and Same: Michael Jackson and Afropolitanist
Context
3.3 The Place of Race in Contemporary Africa: Views from Selected Social
Media Posts
3.4 The Influence of Afropolitanism: Exegesis of Selected Blogs on Social
Media Space
3.5 Race and Biracial Characters: Contest between Afropolitanism and
Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Migration Literatures
3.6 Migration and Afropolitanism: Relevance of hybridity and Afropolitanism
in Contemporary Migration Literatures
3.7 Influence of Afropolitanism from Surveys on Social Media: Discussion and
Results
Conclusion
List of figures
References
4 Explicating Ideological Constructs Within Cinematic Critique Paradigm: A
Nexus to Afropolitanism and Pan-African Perspectives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Cinematic expressions, Societal Narratives and Ideological Constructs: An
Afrpolitan and Pan- African Discourse
4.3 Cinematic Exegesis on Identity and Diasporic Narratives: An Analytical
Discourse on Judas the Black Messiah, Sarafina, Moonlight and Black
Panther with Afropolitan and Pan-African Context
4.4 Characterisation as a Prism for Exploring Afropolitanist Black
Identities: The Confluence of Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism Modern Black
Film Narratives
4.5 Cinamatic Resonances and Reverberations : Interweaving Afropolitanism and
Pan-Africanism through Visual and Auditory Narratives in Contemporary Film
4.6 Elucidating Racial Discourses wth Cinematic Narratives: A Critical
Examination of Afropolitan and Pan-African Paradigms
Conclusion
References
5 Conclusions, Summaries and Research Findings
5.1 introduction
5.2 Limitations of the study
5.3 Is Pan-Africanism Relevant to Black people today? Summary of Findings in
the Study
5.4 The Anti-Race Positionality: Summary of Findings on Afropolitanism
5.5 Suggested Areas for Further Research and Policy Implications
Index
Andrew Nyongesa is a lecturer and a writer of fiction. Some of his published works are The Endless Battle (2016), The Water Cycle (2018), Many in One and Other Stories (2019), The Armageddon and Other Stories (2020) and Say My Name and Other Stories from Home and Away, all of which are based on postcolonialism and eco-criticism. His scholarly works include Cultural Fixity and Hybridity: Strategies of Resistance in Safi Abdis Fiction, Conversation with the Other: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels, by the Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies and Humanity and Mother Nature: Ecological Reading of Ole Kulets Blossoms of the Savannah by Kenya Studies Review. Among his most recent works are The Centre and Pathology: Postmodernist Reading of Madness in the Oppressor in Contemporary Fiction and Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture by Routledge. His research interests are postcolonialism, psychological criticism, Black aesthetics and eco-criticism. He currently teaches literature at Muranga University of Technology, Muranga, Kenya.
John Mugubi is a professor of film and theatre arts at Kenyatta University. He has more than 20 years teaching experience in the areas of film, drama, literature and Japanese language and culture. Prof. Mugubi holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Nairobi and a PhD from Kenyatta University. Currently, he is the Dean at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, Film and Media Studies, Kenyatta University. He has published extensively in film, dramatic arts and literature. He has more than fifty publications on film. He focuses on screenwriting, playwriting, film genres, film theory and criticism, stylistics and research methods in the visual and performing arts. Prof. Mugubi is the current chairman of Film Lecturers and Trainers Association Kenya (FleTA-K). He also chairs the Kenya International Theatre Festival Board of Trustees.
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