Marina Bilbija is an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Wesleyan University. She is coeditor of a critical edition of Dusé Mohamed Ali’s 1934 serial novel, Ere Roosevelt Came: A Record of the Adventures of the Man in the Cloak—A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s (2024).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The “Anglo-African” Goes to Lagos: On the Black Journal’s Mobile Templates and Mottos2. British Satellite Journals for the Black Press: Anti-Caste and Fraternity, 1888–18943. Enter the Satellite Newspaperman: Duse Mohamed Ali and the African Times and Orient Review’s Race Unification Project, 1912–19204. When the Sojourner Came to Harlem: Reprinting Kobina Sekyi’s “Philosophical Poems” in the Negro World, 19225. When Roosevelt Came to Lagos: Novelizing African America in the Lagos PressConclusion: Bracing for Americanization, Then and NowNotesBibliographyIndex

The Black Sojourner Press profiles a riveting cast of itinerant journalists and editors, moving among the United States, Caribbean, West Africa, and Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pinned between the British and US empires, these roving intellectuals fashioned the journal into a truly world literary form. This impressively researched book resituates our understanding of the 'Global Anglophone' by invoking its longer histories and its earliest theorists.

Marina Bilbija is an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Wesleyan University. She is coeditor of a critical edition of Dusé Mohamed Ali’s 1934 serial novel, Ere Roosevelt Came: A Record of the Adventures of the Man in the Cloak—A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s (2024).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The “Anglo-African” Goes to Lagos: On the Black Journal’s Mobile Templates and Mottos2. British Satellite Journals for the Black Press: Anti-Caste and Fraternity, 1888–18943. Enter the Satellite Newspaperman: Duse Mohamed Ali and the African Times and Orient Review’s Race Unification Project, 1912–19204. When the Sojourner Came to Harlem: Reprinting Kobina Sekyi’s “Philosophical Poems” in the Negro World, 19225. When Roosevelt Came to Lagos: Novelizing African America in the Lagos PressConclusion: Bracing for Americanization, Then and NowNotesBibliographyIndex

The Black Sojourner Press profiles a riveting cast of itinerant journalists and editors, moving among the United States, Caribbean, West Africa, and Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pinned between the British and US empires, these roving intellectuals fashioned the journal into a truly world literary form. This impressively researched book resituates our understanding of the 'Global Anglophone' by invoking its longer histories and its earliest theorists.

Marina Bilbija is an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Wesleyan University. She is coeditor of a critical edition of Dusé Mohamed Ali’s 1934 serial novel, Ere Roosevelt Came: A Record of the Adventures of the Man in the Cloak—A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s (2024).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The “Anglo-African” Goes to Lagos: On the Black Journal’s Mobile Templates and Mottos2. British Satellite Journals for the Black Press: Anti-Caste and Fraternity, 1888–18943. Enter the Satellite Newspaperman: Duse Mohamed Ali and the African Times and Orient Review’s Race Unification Project, 1912–19204. When the Sojourner Came to Harlem: Reprinting Kobina Sekyi’s “Philosophical Poems” in the Negro World, 19225. When Roosevelt Came to Lagos: Novelizing African America in the Lagos PressConclusion: Bracing for Americanization, Then and NowNotesBibliographyIndex

The Black Sojourner Press profiles a riveting cast of itinerant journalists and editors, moving among the United States, Caribbean, West Africa, and Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pinned between the British and US empires, these roving intellectuals fashioned the journal into a truly world literary form. This impressively researched book resituates our understanding of the 'Global Anglophone' by invoking its longer histories and its earliest theorists.