Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism

Andrew Nyongesa is a lecturer and a writer of fiction. Some of his published works are The Endless Battle (2016), The Water Cycle (2018), Many in One and Other Stories (2019), The Armageddon and Other Stories (2020) and Say My Name and Other Stories from Home and Away, all of which are based on postcolonialism and eco-criticism. His scholarly works include Cultural Fixity and Hybridity: Strategies of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Fiction, ‘Conversation with the “Other”: Style and Pathology in Selected African Novels,’ by the Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies and ‘Humanity and Mother Nature: Ecological Reading of Ole Kulet’s Blossoms of the Savannah’ by Kenya Studies Review. Among his most recent works are ‘The Centre and Pathology: Postmodernist Reading of Madness in the Oppressor in Contemporary Fiction’ and Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction: Modernist Dream and the Demise of Culture by Routledge. His research interests are postcolonialism, psychological criticism, Black aesthetics and eco-criticism. He currently teaches literature at Murang’a University of Technology, Murang’a, Kenya.John Mugubi is a professor of film and theatre arts at Kenyatta University. He has more than 20 years teaching experience in the areas of film, drama, literature and Japanese language and culture. Prof. Mugubi holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Nairobi and a PhD from Kenyatta University. Currently, he is the Dean at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, Film and Media Studies, Kenyatta University. He has published extensively in film, dramatic arts and literature. He has more than fifty publications on film. He focuses on screenwriting, playwriting, film genres, film theory and criticism, stylistics and research methods in the visual and performing arts. Prof. Mugubi is the current chairman of Film Lecturers and Trainers Association – Kenya (FleTA-K). He also chairs the Kenya International Theatre Festival Board of Trustees.

• Introduction1 Relevance of primordial Identities: Pan-Africanism in the face of Globalisation 1.1 Background1.2 Review of Related Literature1.3 Review of diasporic and Global Literatures on Pan Africanism and Afropolitanism1.4 Review of scholarship from Africa1.5 Statement of the Problem1.6 Objectives of the Study1.7 Procedure and Methodology1.8 Data Analysis and Interpretation1.9 Pan-Africanist and Afropoliltanist readings of artifacts and cultural productions: Justification of the Study1.10 Outline of Book Chapters2 Come Back Babar: The Place of Pan-Africanism in Black Literatures 2.1 introduction2.2 The Beauty of Mother Africa: postcolonial poetry, songs and attendant values2.3 The Untold Stories: African Prose and the Reality of Racism2.4 Life Writing and Blackness: Racism and African Culture in Selected Autobiographies2.5 Black, Beauty and African Diaspora: Revitalisation of Black Values and Harlem Renaissance 2.6 Blackness and Folklore: Pan Africanist Voice in Selected Folklore and quotes2.7 Influence of pan-Africanism from Surveys and Social Media: Discussion and ResultsConclusionList of figuresReferences 3 Frivolity of Race: Afropolitanism and Validity of Class in Contemporary Literature and Folklore3.1 introduction3.2 “Black or White—One and Same”: Michael Jackson and Afropolitanist Context3.3 The Place of Race in Contemporary Africa: Views from Selected Social Media Posts3.4 The Influence of Afropolitanism: Exegesis of Selected Blogs on Social Media Space3.5 Race and Biracial Characters: Contest between Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism in Contemporary Migration Literatures3.6 Migration and Afropolitanism: Relevance of hybridity and Afropolitanism in Contemporary Migration Literatures3.7 Influence of Afropolitanism from Surveys on Social Media: Discussion and ResultsConclusionList of figuresReferences4 Explicating Ideological Constructs Within Cinematic Critique Paradigm: A Nexus to Afropolitanism and Pan-African Perspectives4.1 Introduction4.2 Cinematic expressions, Societal Narratives and Ideological Constructs: An Afrpolitan and Pan- African Discourse4.3 Cinematic Exegesis on Identity and Diasporic Narratives: An Analytical Discourse on “Judas the Black Messiah”, “Sarafina”, “Moonlight” and “Black Panther” with Afropolitan and Pan-African Context4.4 Characterisation as a Prism for Exploring Afropolitanist Black Identities: The Confluence of Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism Modern Black Film Narratives4.5 Cinamatic Resonances and Reverberations : Interweaving Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism through Visual and Auditory Narratives in Contemporary Film4.6 Elucidating Racial Discourses wth Cinematic Narratives: A Critical Examination of Afropolitan and Pan-African ParadigmsConclusionReferences 5 Conclusions, Summaries and Research Findings5.1 introduction5.2 Limitations of the study5.3 Is Pan-Africanism Relevant to Black people today? Summary of Findings in the Study5.4 The Anti-Race Positionality: Summary of Findings on Afropolitanism5.5 Suggested Areas for Further Research and Policy ImplicationsIndex