The appearance of this journal is the fruit
of several years of reflection and discussion with various people
about the need to create such a platform for Africa and its diaspora. The
idea is that Tinabantu will initially appear twice a year, and
will serve as a forum for the consideration of diverse views,
ideas and opinions reflecting differing philosophical and political
dispositions, but committed to the maintenance of high intellectual
standards and a recognition of the historical and cultural unity
of Africa and its diaspora.
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the view that particularly important, at this juncture of the
history of Africa, is the need to create a cultural movement which
is Africanist in orientation and which takes the best out of Africa’s
historical and cultural records and uses these as bases for the
development of African society. The idea is that the much-discussed
notion of an African Renaissance, to be realizable, would need
to be premised on the cultural and linguistic foundations of African
society. It is therefore ironical that we start this journal
in a non-African language. It is a compromise we for obvious
reasons make with a heavy heart at this stage. For the same
reasons we will be happy also to publish papers in French which
meet the requirements we have spelt out above. If we receive
contributions in major African languages like Swahili, Pulaar/Fulful
or Hausa etc. we shall publish them.
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only to the authors. The Editor does not necessarily share
or support the views of the various authors.
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Outline
of Previous Editions
VOLUME
1. NUMBER 1
May 2002
1.
Notes and Topics
Sola Olorunyomi : Fela
as a Conscious Musical Caliban
Zeng Qiang: Some
Reflections on Expanding Sino-African Trade and Economic Cooperative
Relations in the New Century (The Viewpoint of a Chinese Scholar)
Hisham Aidi:
Facing up to the Failure of “Racial Democracy” in
Brazil
2.
Portraits
Bahru Zewde:
Ethiopia and the Black Diaspora: The Career of Dr Malaka
Bayyan
Jabez Ayodele Langley:
William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi (Kobina Sekyi) of Ghana, (1892-1956): Theory
of Politics, Development and Cultural Identity
Quinton Neil Parsons:
F.Z.S. Peregrino (1851-1919): An Early Pan-Africanist
3.
Opinion
Zakes Mda: Rwanda
4.
Bearings
Jo Sandrock: I
live in Naturena – Why don’t You?
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 2.
June 2003
1.
Notes & Topics
John Hunwick: The
Timbuktu Manuscript Tradition
Kwesi Kwaa Prah: Obliterating
African Memory and History: African Archives in Tatters
Susan Beckerleg:
The Hidden Past and Untold Present of African-Palestinians
Abdullahi Osman El-Tom:
Black Book of Sudan: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in Sudan
Li Xing: The
Power of Logo: The Implication of the Chinese Revolution
on Pan-Africanism
Claudia Anthony:
Commentary on War and Warlordism in Africa: The Role of
Western Democracies in Fuelling Africa’s Wars and Warlordism
Judith Amanthis:
Recollections of Zimbabwe in the 1960s
Chinweizu Chinweizu:
Afrocentric Rectification of Terms: Excerpts from: What
Slave Trade? And Other Afrocentric Reflections on the Race
War
2.
Creative Writing
Akwasi Aidoo:
A Slice of Life, New York Style
3.
Art
Edris Kisambira: Theresa
Musoke, East Africa’s Top Female Artist, has Carved out
a Niche in Wildlife Paintings: Her Brush Tames Wildlife
4.
Poetry
Anna Lúcia Florisbela dos Santos:
Black and Black Woman
5.
Book Review
Cheryl Hendricks: Discourses
on Difference, Discourses on Oppression. Edited by Norman
Duncan, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Murray Hofmeyr, Tamara Shefer, Felix
Malunga, Mashudu Mashige. Cape Town: CASAS, Book Series
No. 24. 2002.
VOLUME
2. NUMBER 1.
May 2004
1.
Notes & Topics
Annette Groth: The
Evils of Globalization
Eugene Godfried: Reflections on
Afro-Cubans
Humberto Marquea:
Venezuela: Racism Persists - 150 Years After the Abolition
of Slavery
Halima Mwinskeikhe & Mwajuma
Vuzo : Kiingereza kama Lugha ya
Kufundishia na Kujifunzia Katika Shule za sekondari Tanzania
kinachangia Kuzorota kwa Elimu
John Adebayo Afolabi: By
the Rivers of Babylon: Bondage Motif in the Performing
Arts, Life and Aesthetics of Rastafarians
Hong Yonghong:
African Studies in China
2.
Sudanese Issues
Peter Adwok Nyaba:
Welcome to the NGO World of the South Sudan: Reflections
Eric
Reeves : No Further Evasion of
the Essential Question: What will we do in Darfur?
Eric
Reeves: The Shilluk Kingdom in
Southern Sudan is Going up in Flames
3.
Portraits
Monika Firla: The
Search of Angelo Soliman (ca. 1721-96): A Viennese African
Between a Hereditary Prince's Educator and Stuffed Exponate
Kwesi
Kwaa Prah: The Passing of a Giant:
Walter Sisulu
Dieudonne
Gnammankou : Hayrettin Effendi:
The Last Black Eunuch of Turkey
4.
Human Rights
Yvonne King:
Innocence Betrayed: Free Omar Askia After 32 Years in
Prison
5.
Of Experience
Akwasi Aidoo: Encountering
Death
