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Nuwaubian Pan-Africanism

Back to Our Root

Emeka C. Anaedozie

This book examines the contemporary operational and theoretical parameters of Pan-Africanism and black nationalism in the post-civil rights era. It uses the Nuwaubian movement as a case study to explore this essential strand in African Diasporan history, culture, and tradition. The author argues that the Nuwaubian Nation, like their contemporaries such as the Nation of Islam, represents contemporary efforts of African descendants to dialectically and culturally fight oppression. He argues that unlike the classical Back to Africa movements, the contemporary ones do not seek to primarily relocate to Africa, but to go to Africa culturally and bring back Africa to the diaspora.

This effort can be seen in the Nuwaubian attempts at unearthing and importing classical African traditions, mores, and values in their in their various communities across the United States, especially in Eatonton, Georgia. Their aim was to chart an identity for their adherents and inspire racial pride for people of African descent.

Lexington Books

Pages: 160 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-4985-9858-3 • Hardback • December 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-9859-0 • eBook • December 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Subjects: History / Africa / General

Nuwaubian Pan-Africanism

Back to Our Root

Hardback

eBook

Summary

This book examines the contemporary operational and theoretical parameters of Pan-Africanism and black nationalism in the post-civil rights era. It uses the Nuwaubian movement as a case study to explore this essential strand in African Diasporan history, culture, and tradition. The author argues that the Nuwaubian Nation, like their contemporaries such as the Nation of Islam, represents contemporary efforts of African descendants to dialectically and culturally fight oppression. He argues that unlike the classical Back to Africa movements, the contemporary ones do not seek to primarily relocate to Africa, but to go to Africa culturally and bring back Africa to the diaspora.

This effort can be seen in the Nuwaubian attempts at unearthing and importing classical African traditions, mores, and values in their in their various communities across the United States, especially in Eatonton, Georgia. Their aim was to chart an identity for their adherents and inspire racial pride for people of African descent.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 160 • Trim: 6½ x 9

978-1-4985-9858-3 • Hardback • December 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-4985-9859-0 • eBook • December 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Subjects: History / Africa / General

Author

Emeka C. Anaedozie is assistant professor of history at Grambling State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Historical Development of the Nuwaubian Nation

Chapter 2: Nuwaupu as the Panacea of Emancipation

Chapter 3: Nuwaupu on Social Discourse

Chapter 4: Nuwaubian Cultural Nationalism

Chapter 5: The Nuwaubian Cause and the Big Picture: An Assessment

Reviews

In Nuwaubian Pan-Africanism: Back to Our Root, Emeka C. Anaedozie grapples with the thought process of a controversial and troubling figure, Malachi York (aka Dwight York), founder and leader of the Nuwaubian Nation. While the Nuwaubian Nation has been described as a cult and York—who is currently serving a life prison term—as a con man, Anaedozie takes an anthropological approach, producing a deep and thoughtful analysis of York’s extensive writings. This book provides new insight into grassroots black nationalism that, whatever the truth about its subject’s misdeeds, gives useful, sometimes disturbing insight into how one group incorporated aspects of nationalist thought into their dream of creating a new Africa in rural Georgia.
— Lawrence A. Peskin, Morgan State University

Nuwaubian Pan-Africanism: Back to Our Root introduces readers to the Nuwaubian Nation—a lesser-known Black nationalist group that was founded in the 1960s—exploring its historical development and strides to heal the collective Black community through the lens of intellectual history, greatly pushing our understanding of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
— Kami Fletcher, Albright College

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