Creating one World…One Book at a Time
20 February 2015
A New Book to Commemorate Significant African
Anniversaries on 21 February
Anniversaries on 21 February
21 February: Progress and Possibilities for a Pan African
Future is a collection of 21 thought-provoking
essays commemorating three significant occurrences of the 20th century that have influenced
a Pan Africanism perspective for the 21st century and beyond:
·
The
arrest of Martin Luther King (and others) for their leadership during the
Montgomery Bus Boycott. (1956)
·
The
assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
·
The
start of the trial of the Ogoni 9, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa (1995).
Ironically, they all took place on 21 February reminding us that there
are other (past and present) parallel events and situations on the continent
and in the diaspora that have had and will have a part to play when considering
PanAfricanism and its future.
‘Pan Africanism has given birth not only
to political movements, but more significantly, it has evolved its own social
thought.’ Professor Paul
Okojie, Senior Lecturer in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
21 February encompasses numerous themes and topical
concerns such as climate change and human security, cultural influence,
enterprise and development, the media and women and children health initiatives.
The text brings together writers of exceptional pedigree who have a singular
belief – strengthening the unification of the continent in order to build a
positive future. The rise of female prominence within this movement is not only
discussed in one of the essays but is
immediately reflected in the editorship and production of the book (the editor
and publisher are women, Kadija Sesay and Janis Kearney respectively).
The anthology
poses PanAfricanism as an ideology and implicates the concept of cooperation as
a weapon against modern political and social injustices.
Contributors: Hakim Adi, Amadou
Mahtar Ba, Nnimmo Bassey, Ama
Biney, Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell , Hassoum Ceesay, Carole Boyce-Davies, Gibril
Faal, Raimi Gbadamosi, Wangui
wa Goro, ChenziRa Davis Kahina,
Shannon Marquez, Tariq Mehmood, Sai Murray, E. Ethelbert Miller, Mukoma wa
Ngugi, Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo, Oghenetoja Okoh, Paul Okojie, Ewuare X. Osayande,
Deborah A. Sanders, Amrit Wilson.
Editor : Kadija Sesay is a literary activist,
editor, publisher and poet of Sierra Leonean descent. In 1985 she graduated
from Birmingham University where she majored in West African Studies. Kadija
established SAKS Publications in 1996 to publish anthologies for writers of
African descent. This now includes SABLE, an international literary publication
for writers of colour. She has received several awards and accolades for her
work and contribution to literary arts.
Publisher: WoW Press is an
independently owned, Arkansas-based publishing company specialising in
biography, non-fiction, fiction and children and women’s literature. Writing
our World Press was founded by literacy advocate, former presidential diarist,
journalist, and newspaper publisher Janis F. Kearney.
21 February: Progress and Possibilities for a Pan African
Future Edited by Kadija Sesay
ISBN:
978-0-9889644-1-9 Publication
Date: 10th November 2015
Front cover book image attached. Designed by liquorice fish http://www.liquoricefish.co.uk/
For more information contact:
For more information contact:
Writing our World
Publishing or Kadija George
+1 (501) 372-4815 +44 (7980) 269 138
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