Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the old and the new African diaspora
  • Part I. The old diaspora : slavery and identity politics
  • Africa and slavery in a transnational context
  • The slave mutiny of 1839 : the colonization of memory and spaces
  • The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness
  • Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism
  • Part II. An African case study : Yoruba ethnicity in the diaspora
  • Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics
  • Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity
  • Orisa music, dance, and modernity
  • Part III. The new diaspora : transnationalism and globalization
  • Western education and Transatlantic connections
  • Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa : toward an integrated body of knowledge
  • Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran : knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface
  • Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya : the African impact on global cultures
  • Globalization and contemporary cultures
  • Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century.