Recently added articles from The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online):
Lift Every Voice
Dec 01, 2008; ... The election of Barack Hussein Obama as the first person of African heritage to hold the office of President of the United States of America is indeed something we can celebrate, and if not for him, certainly for those who came before him, our noble ancestors (e.g., Malcolm X, Zenzile Miriam ...
Afro-Paraguayan Spanish: The Negation of Non-Existence
Dec 01, 2008; ... Introduction One of the most interesting chapters in the history of the Spanish and Portuguese languages throughout the world is the African contribution. There exists a tantalizing corpus of literary, folkloric and anecdotal testimony on the earlier speech patterns of Africans and their ...
Community Studies 101: An Interview with Kwaku Person-Lynn
Dec 01, 2008; ... Kwaku Person-Lynn is a native of Los Angeles, a husband, father of five sons and two grandchildren. Professionally he is a historian, musicologist, educator, author, filmmaker, and radio producer. He has published two books (e.g., First Word: Black Scholars, Thinkers, Warriors: Knowledge, ...
Jaja and Nana in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: Proto-Nationalists or Emergent Capitalists
Dec 01, 2008; ... Abstract The extant literature on the evolution of nationalism in Nigeria generally portrays King Jaja of Opobo and Governor Nana Olomu of Itsekiri as pioneers of the nationalist struggles against British imperialism in the Niger Delta. This paper, however, argues that the resistance of ...
Overcoming Conflicts in Africa: Impact on World Peace
Dec 01, 2008; ... The following is the keynote address of The Honorable Salim Ahmed Salim, presented at the 2008 Global Peace Leadership Summit sponsored by The African Diaspora Foundation, held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), September 26 at the Tom Bradely International ...
Paul Robeson: The Quintessential Public Intellectual
Dec 01, 2008; ... The following is a lecture presented at the Lafayette College (Easton, PA) 'Paul Robeson Conference', April 7, 2005, as a part of a three-day conference on the history and culture of civil rights and civil liberties. In The Last Intellectuals, published in 1987, historian Russell Jacoby ...
The New Orleans Declaration: Reflections on the Significance of the State of the Black World Conference II "Recommendations on the Road Ahead"
Dec 01, 2008; ... November 19 - 23, 2008, more than 1,000 people of African descent convened under the auspices of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century in New Orleans, LA for the first major gathering of Black people after the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. Filled ...
An Afrocentric Manifesto
Dec 01, 2008; ... An Afrocentric Manifesto Molefi Kete Asante, An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA) Polity Press, 2007. 174pp. ISBN 9780745641034 Proponents of the globalization process argue that the homogenization of world culture is reflective of the ...
Concepts of a Black Conservative: Candid Political Incorrectness
Dec 01, 2008; ... Concepts of a Black Conservative: Candid Political Incorrectness Miller, Connie A. Concepts of a Black Conservative: Candid Political Incorrectness. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2006, pp.164. ISBN: 9781413785210. What should Black Americans do to improve their condition in America? ...
Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States
Dec 01, 2008; ... Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States Eric M. Edi, Globalization and Politics in the Economic Community of West African States. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2007, xii+209pp, ISBN 13: 978-1-59460- 283-2. The series in which this ...
Exploring Literature: The Language and Logic of Liberation (Kawaida and Mato Oput)
Jul 01, 2008; ... In my usual call for papers and participation, a few step forward with productive content. This issue is thus the result of part of that effort as JPAS editorial member Dr. Uhuru Hotep organized a call to engage in a discussion of the Kawaida derived concern via Dr. Maulana Karenga for a logic ...
Intellectual Maroons: Architects of African Sovereignty
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract In 1999 Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (Jacob H. Carruthers) coined the term "intellectual maroon" as a moniker for Black thinkers who have "declared their freedom" from European intellectual bondage. Organized into four sections and using the metaphor of the journey toward enlightenment, ...
Communicating the Logic and Language of Black Liberation
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction Of the many ways to approach a theme such as that of the language and logic of Black liberation room must be made for a critical assessment of the ability to produce and disseminate the linguistic expression of such a logic within an understood context of there being a need ...
The Rhetoric of Revolution: The Black Consciousness Movement and the Dalit Panther Movement
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract The liberation of oppressed people is a global struggle as liberation movements echo one another in proclaiming rights of equality, freedom and liberty inherent to all human beings. The marginalized constituents respond to oppression by donning the armor of struggle to wrest ...
Post-Colonial Reading Strategies and the Problem of Cultural Meaning in African/Black1 Literary Discourse
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper is part of the author's research into the possibility of carving a distinct critical canon for the reading of African/Black literature. It has been observed that postcolonial theory is fraught with many assumptionist errors, one of which is to read all postcolonial ...
Self-Emancipation and Slavery: An Examination of the African American's Quest for Literacy and Freedom
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract The courageous effort of enslaved Africans to acquire English literacy is an often-ignored story that deserves frequent telling. It is also a political saga that recounts White America's legalization of the enslavement, dehumanization, and cultural domination of African ...
Response of Southern Sudanese Intellectuals to African Nationalism
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper provides an overview of the journey of the African intellectual within a globalised world community, juxtaposing neo-colonialism in Africa and its inability to achieve self-sustaining development, except for reluctant agreements on the need for economic unity. Next, ...
African Women, Tradition and Change in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter
Jul 01, 2008; ... In a 1995 article about the representations of African women in African literature entitled "Francophone African Women Writers: African Feminism and Womanhood," Professor Ojo-Ade warns literary critics about analyzing African novels from a western feminist perspective. According to him, such ...
Barren Rivers and Flowery Women: Metaphors of Domination and Subjugation in Select Poems of Ebi Yeibo and Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper critically investigated how contemporary Nigerian poets employ nature as a metaphor to signify the dissonant relationship between the people of the Niger-Delta and the Nigerian government on one hand, and the African women and their men on the other hand. The ...
The Politics of the Struggle to Resolve the Conflict in Uganda: Westerners Pushing Their Legal Approach versus Ugandans Insisting on Their Mato Oput
Jul 01, 2008; ... Introduction After combing through many different definitions of politics, ranging from the simple to the complex, and varying from the profound to the obvious, James Barnes, Marshall Carter and Max Skidmore assert that "the key idea that underlies them all is that politics somehow ...