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This volume explores what it means to be an African in a political context in which such people are called upon to re-assert the value of identifying as African in order to counter the effects of neo-colonialism. This includes affirming visions of what Africanness can offer in terms of people's being-in-the-world. The book also discusses the benefits associated with working together as people of African ancestry, as well as the evocation of Ubuntu. It focuses on the possibility of revisiting the urge for African rebirth, and shows how the idea of Pan-Africanism helps to keep this dream alive. It engages with a range of ideas that build on the Pan-African philosophy for grounding African cultural and political rebirth, and will contribute to debunking the mindset that prompts many African youths and adults to risk it all for an apparently better life on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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This is a welcome book that addresses Pan-Africanism in a historical perspective and links it to current debates on the African Renaissance. The authors raise critical and unavoidable identity questions from an interdisciplinary perspective, and in doing so renew the discourse on liberation and its aftermath. Elias Kifon BongmbaHarry and Hazel Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religion, Rice University By skillfully interrogating the true meaning of I am an African , Historical and Contemporary Pan-Africanism and the Quest for an African Renaissance unveils the dominant underpinnings of Africanness, which collectively constitutes the fulcrum upon which pivot Pan-Africanism, on the one side, and the African Renaissance on the other. This comprehensive examination of the roadmap to African unity and the oneness that is anticipated to result from African rebirth uses a multivoiced approach to delve into the entire gamut of conceptualizations of being African through persuasive investigations of the enduring obstacles to Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance. Jospeter M. MbubaAssociate Professor of Criminal Justice, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

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Njoki Wane, PhD, is a Professor and current Chair of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a recognized scholar in the areas of Black feminisms in Canada and Africa, African indigenous knowledges, African women and spirituality. Her recent publications include Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food Processing Practices Among Kenyan Rural Women; Equity in Practice: Transformational Training Resource (with Larissa Cairncross); and A Handbook on African Traditional Healing Approaches and Research Practices (with Erica Neeganagwedin). She has also co-edited Spirituality, Education and Society: An Integrated Approach (with Energy Manyimo and Eric Ritskes) and The Politics of Cultural Knowledge (with Arlo Kempf and Marlon Simmons). She is the recipient of the Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in 2008 and the African Women Achievement Award in 2007.Francis Akena Adyanga, PhD, is the Head of the Foundations of Education Department at Kabale University, Uganada. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2014, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Education of the University of South Africa (UNISA) Pretoria in 2016. His research focuses on African indigenous science, indigenous knowledge, social and environmental justice education, and global citizenship education, among others. His recent publications include Researching Indigenous Science Knowledge Integration in Formal Education: Interpreting some Perspectives from the Field (2017); Spiritual Discourse in the Academy: A Globalised Indigenous Perspective (edited with Wane and Ilmi, 2014); Traditional Knowledge in HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention Programs in Northern Uganda (2016), among others.

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