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Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of
Globalization is the second volume in the Kwame Nkrumah
International Conference series, and brings together twenty
selected papers presented at the Third Kwame Nkrumah International
Conference held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on August 19-21,
2014. Two premises inform this volume: (1) If the history of
slavery and its vestiges divided and continue to divide the
continent and its Diasporas, modern technology should be harnessed
to bridge that divide, and (2) the continent's development is a
boon to the development of what the African Union has dubbed
Africa's "Sixth Region". The book threads together papers that seek
to give academic and intellectual impetus to tie the continent's
development to that of the African Diaspora. The goal is to end the
inertia and inward-looking on the part of scholars and academics in
both Africa and "African International" or "Global Africa," and
re-engage one another in more productive ways. By harnessing the
enormous resources available in our internet age and riding the
cresting wave of globalization, the task of re-engagement will be
vastly enhanced, and the debates and discussions in this volume
will serve to facilitate this re-engagement.A main highlight of the
conference was a special tribute to Nelson Mandela to honour his
death in December, 2013 and celebrate 20 years of South African
independence. In these papers, scholars examine Mandela's role in
the transition of South Africa from a racist state to a democratic
nation. They critically examine how the ANC's policies have
impacted post-Apartheid South Africa and question what alternatives
remain for the future.
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