Some Unsung Black Revolutionary Voices and Visions from Pre-Colony to Post-Independence and Beyond

Yaya Fonye Odette

Description

This volume confronts black problems rooted in historical and material realities of oppression, colonialism, slavery, corruption, and subjugation in a world deaf to the cries, voices, and visions of heralds of an imminent black revolution. Some Unsung Black Revolutionary Voices and Visions gives readers new insights into the centrality of counter forces of the abovementioned material realities. The work is more of an ideal source for the editor’s sustained interest in these issues as well as any other historical shackle that chains and leaves the black man worldwide as a lesser man. This outstanding collection of essays explores the uniqueness and universality of Black Revolutionary Voices and Visions from the 19th Century to the 21st century. This engaging and incisive volume offering a high interest in historical and literary revolution of African and African Diasporic revolutionaries explores the voices and visions of Martin Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Harriet Jacobs, Gebreyessus Hailu, Zora Neale Hurston, Okot p’Btek, Fodéba Keïta, Walter Rodney, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, American Virgin Island Youths, Black Cultural Organizations, and Francis B. Nyamnjoh. The book is a gentle reminder of black pride that brings and connects in a coherent form the main struggles against which black creative thinkers, artists, activists, and historians fight to set the world free of pain, hurt, and corruption.

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956552245
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Langaa Research & Publishing
Common Initiative Group
P.O. Box 902 Mankon
Bamenda
North West Region
Cameroon

Some Unsung Black
Revolutionary Voices &
Visions from Pre-Colony to
Post-Independence & Beyond






Edited by

Bill F. Ndi













Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Mankon, Bamenda Publisher:
Langaa RPCIG
Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group
P.O. Box 902 Mankon
Bamenda
North West Region
Cameroon
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www.langaa-rpcig.net



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ISBN-10: 9956-551-11-2
ISBN-13: 978-9956-551-11-8

© Bill F. Ndi 2021




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About the Authors


Editor

Bill F. Ndi, Professor of Modern Languages, Communication and
Philosophy at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA, earned his
Dual Doctorate from the University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2001. He is a
poet, playwright, storyteller, literary critic, translator, historian of ideas and
mentalities as well as an academic who has held teaching positions in several
universities in Australia, France and elsewhere. His areas of teaching and
research comprise among others English Languages and literatures, French,
Professional, Technical and Creative Writing, World Literatures, Applied/
Historical Linguistics, Literary History, Media and Communication Studies,
Peace/Quaker Studies and Conflict Resolution, History of
Internationalism, History of Ideas and Mentalities, Translation &
thTranslatology, 17 Century and Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has
published extensively in these areas. His publications include numerous
scholarly works on Early Quakerism and translation of Early Quaker
writings. He has also published poetry and plays in both the French and the
English languages. Professor Bill F. Ndi has 25 published volumes of poetry
of which six (6) are in French, a play and 4 works in translation. He is
coeditor of Outward Evil, Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature with Adaku
T. Ankumah, Benjamin Hart Fishkin, and Festus Fru Ndeh as well as
coeditor of Fears, Doubts, and Joys of not Belonging, The Repressed Expressed, and
Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence with Adaku
T. Ankumah and Benjamin Hart Fishkin. His most recent edited work is
Secret, Silences, and Betrayals. Also, he has served as a National Endowment
for the Humanities’ scholar.


Contributors

Adaku T. Ankumah, Department Chair and Professor of English at
Tuskegee University, received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in drama. Her dissertation
and initial research interests focused on revolutionary playwrights from the
African Diaspora, such as Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Martiniquais writer Aimé Césaire, and African American Amiri Baraka, who use their creative
efforts to work for the destruction of what they consider to be the
colonial/capitalist foundation of post-colonial Africa. Ngugi’s play The Trial
of Dedan Kimathi, a play that examines the arrest and trial of one of the
famous leaders of the Mau Mau revolt against the British in Kenya in the
1950’s, has been the subject of her published research. She has also done
research on the role of women in revolutionary theatre, voicelessness of
African women, and gender and politics in the works of African women
authors like Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Professor Ankumah’s recent research interest includes the writings of
women in the African diaspora. This includes research on memory in
literature and its role in helping those dealing with painful, fragmented pasts
forge a wholesome future in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker. She has
also examined memory and resistance in the poetry of South African
performer and writer Gcina Mhlophe. Her notable edited work is
Nomenclatural Poetization and Globalization. Also, she co-edited, with Bill F.
Ndi, Benjamin Hart Fishkin and Festus Fru Ndeh, Outward Evil Inward
Battle: Human Memory in Literature, and with Bill F Ndi and Benjamin Hart
Fiskin: Fears, Doubts, and Joys of not Belonging, The Repressed Expressed, and
Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence.

Andrew T. Ngeh is Associate Professor of written African Literature. He
has been teaching African Poetry, the African Novel, Critical Theory and
Scientific Writing in the University of Buea for the past nineteen years. He
has published quite extensively in peer-reviewed journals nationally and
internationally. Andrew T. Ngeh has more than thirty-seven articles
published in peer-reviewed journals, nationally and internationally. In
addition to that, he has four books to his credit: Power Dialectics in Anglophone
Cameroonian Poetry (2014), Critical Issues in Anglophone Cameroonian Poetry,
(2017), Drama and Commitment: Degendered Bodies and Re-gendered Minds, (2019),
and Writing a Critical Essay: A Practical Guide for Students, (2020). In 2019, he
co-edited a book entitled, Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing
World published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. His recent academic
outing was in July 2020 with the publication of Writing a Critical Essay: A
Practical Guide for Students published by Generis Publishing.

Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Associate Professor of English at Tuskegee
University specializes in teaching Nineteenth Century British Literature. He
holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama where he served as a Junior
Fell