{"product_id":"the-african-world-in-dialogue-teresa-n-washington-9780991073078","title":"The African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe African World in Dialogue: An Appeal to Action! \u003c\/em\u003eis a probing and politically timely collection of essays, interviews, speeches, poetry, short stories, and proposals. These rich works illuminate the struggles, dreams, triumphs, impediments, and diversity of the contemporary African world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe African World in Dialogue\u003c\/em\u003e contains five sections: \"Listen: The Ink Speaks\"; \"Restitutions, Resolutions, Revolutions\"; \"Africanity, Education, and Technology\"; \"Life Lines from the Front Lines\"; and \"Gender, Power, and Infinite Promise.\" Each section brims with provocative and compelling insights from elder-warriors, wordsmiths, journalists, and academics, many of whom are also activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume's contributors include Tunde Adegbola, Muhammad Ibn Bashir, Jacqueline Bediako, Charlie Braxton, Alieu Bundu, Baba A. O. Buntu, Chinweizu, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Oyinlola Longe, Jumbe Kweku Lumumba, Morgan Miller, Asiri Odu, Chinwe Ezinna Oriji, Kevin Powell, Blair Marcus Proctor, Ishola Akindele Salami, Aseret Sin, Teresa N. Washington, and Ayoka Wiles. The book also features interviews with Hilary La Force, Mandingo, Kambale Musavili, and Prince Kuma N'dumbe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith selections designed to critique and in many cases upend conventional political thought, educational norms, fantasies of social progress, and gender myths, \u003cem\u003eThe African World in Dialogue\u003c\/em\u003e challenges its audience. The book's \"Appeal to Action\" is literal: Rather than offering eloquent elaborations of African world woes, \u003cem\u003eThe African World in Dialogue\u003c\/em\u003e offers detailed plans and paths for emancipation and elevation that readers are urged to implement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActivists and scholars of African studies, African American studies, Pan-Africanism, criminal justice, Black revolutionary thought and action, gender studies, sociology, and political science will find this book to be both inspirational and indispensable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Teresa N. Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 099107307X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780991073078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oya's Tornado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Teresa N. Washington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517585699071,"sku":"9780991073078","price":85.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1aa2fe2-6319-40c5-989c-a2c750830cd4.jpg?v=1778732169","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-african-world-in-dialogue-teresa-n-washington-9780991073078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}