Some unsung black revolutionary voices and visions from pre-colony to post-independence and beyond / edited by Bill F. Ndi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ndi, Bill F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Revolutionaries--Africa.

Revolutionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 298 pages).

Other Title:

Some unsung black revolutionary voices and visions from pre-colony to post-independence and beyond

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCID, 2021.

Summary:

This volume confronts black problems rooted in historical and material realities of oppression, colonialism, slavery, corruption, and subjugation in a world deaf to the cries, voices, and visions of heralds of an imminent black revolution. Some Unsung Black Revolutionary Voices and Visions gives readers new insights into the centrality of counter forces of the abovementioned material realities. The work is more of an ideal source for the editors sustained interest in these issues as well as any other historical shackle that chains and leaves the black man worldwide as a lesser man. This outstanding collection of essays explores the uniqueness and universality of Black Revolutionary Voices and Visions from the 19th Century to the 21st century. This engaging and incisive volume offering a high interest in historical and literary revolution of African and African Diasporic revolutionaries explores the voices and visions of Martin Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Harriet Jacobs, Gebreyessus Hailu, Zora Neale Hurston, Okot pBtek, Fodba Keta, Walter Rodney, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, American Virgin Island Youths, Black Cultural Organizations, and Francis B. Nyamnjoh. The book is a gentle reminder of black pride that brings and connects in a coherent form the main struggles against which black creative thinkers, artists, activists, and historians fight to set the world free of pain, hurt, and corruption.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

About the Authors

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Section I - Africa

Chapter 1. A Call to Revolutionize the Mentalities of the Colonized: Gebreyesus Hailu's The Conscript

Chapter 2. Okot p'Bitek's Pro-Feminist Response to Masculinity Politics and Mythopoetic Action: Poetics of Degendering and Regendering

Chapter 3. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Anticolonial and Postcolonial African Revolutionary, Visionary, and Musician.

Fela, the Nigerian and African

Colonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonialism

Fela, the Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Musician

References

Chapter 4. Fodéba Keïta and Les Ballets Africains: Dancing To Freedom

My Journey into the World of a Dance Icon

Fodéba Keïta, the Visionary

Fodéba Keïta, Dance, and Emancipation

Conclusion

Bibliography

Chapter 5. Instincts in Lieu of Senses: Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Married But Available

Works Cited

Section II - North America and The Caribbeans

Chapter 6. Language, Freedom, and the Revolutionary Visionary: The Writings of Zora Neale Hurston

Chapter 7. Martin Delany's Blake

or, The Huts of America and Sutton E. Griggs' Imperium in Imperio: Heralds of Afrofuturism

I Alternative History and the Relative Futuristic

II Revolt and Separation

III America: Future Past

IV Conclusion: The Inevitability of Revolution

Chapter 8. Re-Writing Conventions and Female Resistance: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave

Secondary Sources

Chapter 9. Dr. Walter Rodney: Historian and Voice for the Black Working Class

The Grounding with My Brothers and Black Power

Opposing Global Capitalism

Working Class Coalitions in Guyana.

Conclusion

Chapter 10. Youth Responses to Discriminatory Practices: College of The Virgin Islands' Black Cultural Organization, 1968-1974

The College of The Virgin Islands

The Black Cultural Organization

Lezmore Emanuel and His Black Consciousness Activities in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789956552245

9956552240

OCLC:

1257666563