A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar, 1st Edition

.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, WhatsApp) and questionnaires to gauge their influence among Black peoples 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.A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar 1st Edition is written by Andrew Nyongesa; John Mugubi and published by Routledge. ISBNs for A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism are 9781040154083, 1040154085 and the print ISBNs are 9781032772226, 1032772220. Additional ISBNs include 9781003481904, 9781040154069.