The Ghettos of Pan-Africanism excavates the tortuous trajectory of the struggle for totalistic
\nemancipation of black humanity and affirms the undiminished integrity of the axioms
\nencapsulated in Pan Africanism as a philosophy of radical action for that elusive
\nemancipation. The Ghettos is against the background of strenuous attempts at counterfeited
\ndeflections of the original ideas of pan Africanism through politically driven contentious
\nreinterpretations of the philosophy on the home continent and increasing ethnicization of black
\nhumanity in the Diaspora through direct and nuanced repudiation of the essences of the black
\nself. These deflections of the philosophy and physical defections from the race are often for
\nnarrow and convenient ends. The Ghettos of Pan Africanism revalidates the original
\nunderstandings of pan Africanism as a race based radicalized voice articulating the centrality of
\nthe unity of black people in pursuit of the common destiny of that one race. Pan Africanism was
\nnever based on the aggregation of states burnishing mere fictive sovereignties in their odious
\nreinforced silos of massive human misery. African states are highlighted as sore fixations in
\naborted transition validated by the anti-people political entrepreneurs (poliprenuers) who double
\nas proxies of the inimical external order and their human agency in the inimical external Other. The
\nGhettos illustrates the consequences of this in the pervasive malignancy of African statehood that
\nis understood as an acursed impediment to the fulfillment of the emancipation thrust of black
\nstruggle. In practical terms, the rejection of Pan Africanism as the fundamental underpinning of
\npolitical evolution by Africa\u2019s wounding fathers in Addis Ababa in 1963 is adduced as the source of
\nthe consolidation of Africa and black humanity along the tangents of relevance in the affairs of
\nhumanity.
\nProfessor Ademola Araoye is Director of Abuja Leadership Center, a TETFund Center of
\nExcellence in Public Governance and Leadership at the University of Abuja, Gwagwalada, FCT,
\nand Nigeria. He is a former Nigerian diplomat and retired from the United Nations as Head of
\nOffice for the Consolidation of Democratic Governance of the United Nation Mission in Liberia
\n(UNMIL). He is author of Cote d’Ivoire: The Conundrum of a Still Wretched of the Earth (Africa World
\nPress, New Jersey, 2012) and The Sources of Conflict in the Post-Colonial African State (Africa World Press, New Jersey, 2014).<\/p>\n
\u201cAt once profoundly erudite and deeply reflective, this book is a triumph and tour de force. It
\nprovides a fresh discursive canon that interrogates the contested contours of pan-Africanism in a
\nmanner that is bound to shift intellectual and normative debates in a new direction. Here
\npan-Africanism is liberated from the shallow reductionism that has stifled deeper introspection;
\nwhile the debilitating stasis and paralysing structuralism of the African interstate system stands
\nexposed for its dehumanizing post-colonial effects. In an age where power continues to express
\nitself as a ruse of history, we encounter in these pages the power of an emancipatory
\nepistemology that is embedded in subtle interpretation, thoughtful argument, and excellent
\nscholarship\u201d.
\n-Prof Garth le Pere, Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-1-943533-53-4 \u0399 Published 2021 \u0399 Pan-African University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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