W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa

✍ Scribed by Eugene F Provenzo Jr (editor), Edmund Abaka (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

W. E. B. Du Bois is arguably the most important Black intellectual of the twentieth century and among the most important intellectual figures in modern African social thought. One of the founders of Pan-Africanism and a key figure in the postwar African liberation movement, he was champion of Africa and its people throughout his life. Despite this fact, his work on Africa has been underemphasized in scholarly writing about him. This book brings together for the first time Du Bois’s writings on Africa from the beginning of the twentieth century to his death in the early 1960s. Including over 50 magazine and journal articles, poems and book chapters, the works included in this volume clearly show not only Du Bois’s genius as a writer, but his profound understanding of how the quest for racial equality involved all of the people of African origin who suffered under colonial rule in Africa and in the Black disapora. The editors include a historical introduction, headnotes and a bibliography of Du Bois’s work on Africa.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
To the Nations of the World
The Color Line Belts the World
A Day in Africa
The First Universal Races Congress
Africa
The African Roots of the War
The Negro’s Fatherland
The Future of Africa
Africa II
French and Spanish
Race Pride
Pan-Africa
To the World
A Second Journey to Pan-Africa
Africa for the Africans
Back to Africa
On Migrating to Africa
Kenya
Africa: January 1, 1924
The Place, the People
African Manners
Italy and Abyssinia
Liberia
The Pan-African Congresses
Africa—Its Place in Modern History
Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy
The Future of World Democracy
“What Is Africa to Me?”
The Disenfranchised Colonies
The Rape of Africa
“Suez”
Ghana Calls
Independent Movements in Africa
Pan-Africanism: A Mission in My Life
Africa Awakened
Lenin and Africa
Introduction to Nkrumah’s Address to the United Nations
Report to the Ghana Academy of Sciences
Greetings to the World from Africa
First International Congress of Africanists
Bibliography of W. E. B. Du Bois’ Works Related to Africa
Index
About the Authors