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The Zeleza Post, from which these essays are drawn, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza provides a genuinely critical engagement with Africa’s multiple worlds. With a blend of erudition and lively style, Zeleza writes about the role ofAfrica and Africans in the world and the interaction of the world with Africa.In
Trade Review“Zeleza’s important and insightful collection of essays is essential reading for those seeking a more nuanced understanding of the global Pan-African significance of the election of Barack Obama…. This is precisely what we expect from a provocative and wisely engaged African, Pan-African, African American and Diaspora scholar.”
“The introductory essay…and the final essay…serve as bookends to essays that trace an intellectual journey across several continents, loosely paralleling the contemporary locations and engagements of both the historic and new African diasporas…. One of the great benefits of publishing Zeleza’s essays in book form is that the collection will enable conversations…to migrate from their online homes and into our libraries, departments, and classrooms.” * Safundi *
“Exploring the complex cultural and political forces behind the election of Barack Obama, Zeleza provides an exciting springboard to examine the economies of knowledge and the politics of representation in Africa. He is endowed with the gift of tracing Africa and its Diaspora’s various conversations and confrontations across geographies, languages, religions, wars, leisures, poetics and politics.”
“Zeleza combines a rare intelligence and a keen eye to produce a collection that is at once provocative and humane. Always passionate and informed by his own experiences as a Diasporic subject, his is a voice not to be missed.”
