From the publisher:

Pan-African Connections brings to the reader a combination of Reflections and Testimonies from writers, politicians, activists, colleagues; with essays on intellectual activism, the building of Pan-African institutions and the voices of women in Panafricanism. Stories abound from writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Anyang’ Nyong’o about Locksley Edmondson, who is featured here, who like Walter Rodney, lived and worked on the African continent physically, but also engaged it politically, culturally and intellectually in teaching and research.  The lives and work of these scholars embodied precisely the bringing together of African, Caribbean and African-American Studies in the intellectual arena.  Through this generation of intellectual/activists,  the rubric of Panfricanism remains one of the key areas of academic and political inquiry in Africana Studies. 

About the Editors

Carole Boyce-Davies, is the H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters; professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University, the author of the prize-wining Left of Karl Marx. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008); the classic Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994); Caribbean Spaces. Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (2013) on the internalization of Caribbean culture and a bi-lingual children’s story Walking/An Avan (2016/2017) in Haitian Kreyol and English funded by the Kellogg Foundation.