Contemporary Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa

The undergirding postulate of this book is that Afrocentricity and other ideas birthed by major contemporary Black thinkers in the Diaspora, which have given rise to the Africanist Perspective on the Motherland to place Africa at the center of all intellectual discourses pertaining to African people everywhere, while at the same time challenging the pervasive and pernicious Eurocentric myth of African people being inactive agents in history, are wellsprings for helping to build a new Africa.

The chapters that comprise this book were presented as part of a colloquia series titled Conceptualizations of Africa by Major Black Diaspora Thinkers: Delineating Ideas for Building a New Africa presented at the African Studies and Research Forums 22nd Annual Conference that took place at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia in March of 2018.