Beyond the Color Line: Pan-Africanist Disputations : Selected Sketches, Letters, Papers and Reviews

by Kwesi Kwaa Prah

This is a powerful collection of sketches, reviews, and papers focusing on issues related to African emancipation. It touches on many crucial themes such as Black Consciousness as a reference point of Pan-Africanism; Pan-Africanism and the relationship between race and class; color as an instrument of African oppression and exploitation; the myth of race and color and the psychological syndrome of self-hatred that has been transferred from one generation to the next. The views range from the political to the cultural. The concerns are Africa and the African diaspora. The book raises important considerations which need to be confronted as we move into the 21st century. How is African emancipation both on the continent and the diaspora to be approached? This book attempts to offer answers. The author makes the assertion that only unity will save Africa. The message is not only aimed at the academic but also the scholar activist and the politician.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997