Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.

Introduction / Olayiwola Abegunrin and Sabella Ogbobode Abidde -- The origins of Pan-Africanism / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Pan-African Congresses: 1893-1974 / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Pan-Africanism and the struggle for the liberation of Zimbabwe / Charity Manyeruke -- Xenophobia and Pan-Africanism in post-apartheid South Africa / Sechaba Khoapa -- Pan-Africanism and African diaspora: a geographic perspective / Elisha J. Dung and Paul Erhunmwunsee -- Pan-Africanism in the United States: identity and belonging / James Pope -- Pan-Africanism: the essential then and the critical now in North America / Robert White -- Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean: past, present and future / Brenda I. Gill -- Blacks in Asia: identity and belonging / Alecia D. Hoffman and Sharron Y. Heron-Williams -- Islam and Pan-Africanism in the modern world / Sulayman S. Nyang -- Pan-Africanism and women: projections and speculations for the future / Brenda I. Gill -- Sankara, Rawlings and Gaddafi: intellectuals, populists and revolutionaries as Pan-Africanists / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde -- Pan-Africanism: the state and status of a movement / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde -- Resurgence and the new direction of Pan-Africanism in the twenty-first century / Sabella Ogbobode Abidde -- Biography of some notable Pan-Africanists / Olayiwola Abegunrin -- Appendix A: declaration to the colonial peoples of the world.