Product details
- ISBN 9781041197928
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book considers how people of African descent can generate policies and ideas for the twenty-first century that are embedded in the ideals of Pan-Africanism.
For decades, Pan-Africanism has championed an intellectual ideal that recognizes the unity of people of African descent in their efforts to resist imperialism, racism, slavery, inequality, and neo-colonialism while advancing the decolonization of Africa. Yet, despite the Pan-African commitment to self-determination and transformation based on common interests and identities, in many areas of Africa there has been a resurgence in the discrimination and suppression of people of African descent, marked by fraudulent elections, the suppression of opposition parties and the media, and the exile of key intellectual figures. This book argues that Pan-African ideas can help to provide practical solutions that address both persisting and emerging challenges, such as the scramble for material wealth by Europeans and now the Chinese. Interdisciplinary and collaborative by design, this book brings together a range of themes, from women’s contributions to the movement, to Ubuntu, to the role of religion, politics, and the environment, with the intention of mobilising a new generation to reclaim their African culture, knowledge, dignity and equality.
This important new book will be of interest to Pan-African researchers and students across the social sciences, as well as to activists and civil society actors.
Mary Nyangweso is the J. W. H. Peel distinguished Chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Her specialty is African religions, Islam, religion and sexuality, religion and gender rights and religion and healthcare. She is author of Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Cultural Right? (2014). Female Circumcision: The Interplay Between Religion, Gender and Culture in Kenya (2007) co-author of Religion, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights, (Routledge, 2019). Her book ‘Transnational Africa: Culture and Religion in the Diaspora is forthcoming.
Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha is a tenured Professor at California State University Northridge (Los Angeles) where he teaches, since 2003, a variety of courses including “Religion, Logic and Media,” and “American Religious Diversity.” Prior to CSUN he taught “African Philosophy” at Haverford College, and various courses at Temple University (Philadelphia) and Montclair State University (in New Jersey). Educated in Africa, Europe and the US, Dr Mutombo received training in Philosophy, Egyptology, Christian theology and Religious Studies. He received his Doctorate at Temple University with a thesis on “Philosophical and theological foundations of an African vision of Human Rights.” He is the Founder of the “Bumuntu Peace Institute.”
