Ere Roosevelt Came - The Adventures of the Man in the Cloak - A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s

Ere Roosevelt Came is a short novel by early pan-Africanist Dusé Mohamed Ali. Originally serialised in Ali's Nigerian magazine The Comet in 1934, it grapples with the rise of global fascism and white supremacy, and the growing geopolitical influence of the USA in the interwar period. This is a fantastical, intricately woven and speculative story about how Black American airmen, organising in secret, fight an international assemblage of white supremacists and Russian foreign agents bent on instigating a new world war. The narrative reveals how Black liberation struggles, Bolshevism, and the rise of so-called 'coloured' Japanese empires were bound together in the Pan-African literary imaginary. Written by a Sudanese-Egyptian, serialised in West Africa, and set in the USA, Ere Roosevelt Came is a Pan-African novel par excellence, and a fascinating historical document that conveys the complexities of Black internationalism in the interwar years. The novel is presented with two original, contextualising essays and appendices featuring selected other writings to provide further insight into Ali's vision of a Pan-African future.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Black Critique
Release date:	2024
First published:	2024
Authors:	Dusé Mohamed Ali
Editors:	Marina Bilbija • Alex Lubin
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-4860-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-7453-4860-2
Barcode:	9780745348605

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