The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization / Toyin Falola.
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution -- to other continents, creating large communitie...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Rochester :
University of Rochester Press,
2013.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the old and the new African diaspora
- Africa and slavery in a transnational context
- The slave mutiny of 1839 : the colonization of memory and spaces
- The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness
- Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism
- Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics
- Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity
- Orisa music, dance, and modernity
- Western education and Transatlantic connections
- Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa : toward an integrated body of knowledge
- Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran : knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface
- Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya : the African impact on global cultures
- Globalization and contemporary cultures
- Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century.