The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action!

The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action! is a probing and politically timely collection of essays interviews speeches poetry short stories and proposals. These rich works illuminate the struggles dreams triumphs impediments and diversity of the contemporary African world.The African World in Dialogue contains five sections: Listen: The Ink Speaks; Restitutions Resolutions Revolutions; Africanity Education and Technology; Life Lines from the Front Lines; and Gender Power and Infinite Promise. Each section brims with provocative and compelling insights from elder-warriors wordsmiths journalists and academics many of whom are also activists.The volumes contributors include Tunde Adegbola Muhammad Ibn Bashir Jacqueline Bediako Charlie Braxton Alieu Bundu Baba A. O. Buntu Chinweizu Ricardo Cortez Cruz Oyinlola Longe Jumbe Kweku Lumumba Morgan Miller Asiri Odu Chinwe Ezinna Oriji Kevin Powell Blair Marcus Proctor Ishola Akindele Salami Aseret Sin Teresa N. Washington and Ayoka Wiles. The book also features interviews with Hilary La Force Mandingo Kambale Musavili and Prince Kuma Ndumbe.With selections designed to critique and in many cases upend conventional political thought educational norms fantasies of social progress and gender myths The African World in Dialogue challenges its audience. The books Appeal to Action is literal: Rather than offering eloquent elaborations of African world woes The African World in Dialogue offers detailed plans and paths for emancipation and elevation that readers are urged to implement.Activists and scholars of African studies African American studies Pan-Africanism criminal justice Black revolutionary thought and action gender studies sociology and political science will find this book to be both inspirational and indispensable.