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Black nationalism. --- Pan-Africanism. --- Intellectuals --- Blyden, Edward Wilmot, --- Liberia --- Africa, West --- Intellectual life.

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Historians --- Political activists --- Pan-Africanism. --- Black power. --- Blacks --- Activists, Political --- Persons --- Political participation --- Historiographers --- Scholars --- Power, Black --- Black nationalism --- African relations --- African cooperation --- Regionalism (International organization) --- Intellectual life. --- Rodney, Walter. --- رودني، والتر --- Africa --- Politics and government --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people

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Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in Blyden's powerful black racial nationalism. Blyden was a modernist who called upon African Americans to "uplift" Africa; yet he was a defender of Africa's culture and customs. He was the most sophisticated critic of Eurocentrism; yet he was an avid Anglophile. He was a Protestant who admired Islam's "civilizing" role in Africa. Blyden was the first black intellectual to advocate for the symbiosis of Africa's "triple heritage": indigenous, Islamic, and Western. His voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important ideas of African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century, including Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Chiekh Anta Diop, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney.

Though Blyden is often overlooked in the history of modern black thought, in this book, Teshale Tibebu brings him out of oblivion and engages the reader in an extended, systematic evaluation of his written works.

Teshale Tibebu is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of The Making of Modern Ethiopia, 1896-1974, Hegel and Anti-Semitism, and Hegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History.

Black nationalism. --- Pan-Africanism. --- Intellectuals --- Blyden, Edward Wilmot, --- Liberia --- Africa, West --- Intellectual life. --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- African relations --- African cooperation --- Regionalism (International organization) --- Black separatism --- Nationalism --- Nationalism, Black --- Separatism, Black --- Black power --- Blacks --- Politics and government --- Race identity --- Blyden, Edward W. --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Dēmokratia tēs Liverias --- Gweriniaeth Liberia --- IGNU (Liberia) --- Interim Government of National Unity (Liberia) --- Komara Lîberyayê --- Labiriyaa --- Laibeer --- Libearia --- Libeeria --- Libeeria Vabariik --- Libeïa --- Libéir --- Libèiria --- Liberi --- Libériai Köztársaság --- Liberiako Errepublika --- Liberië --- Liberii︠a︡ --- Liberii︠a︡ respublika --- Liberija --- Libērijas Republika --- Liberijos Respublika --- Liberio --- Liberiya --- Liberiya Respublikası --- Liberja --- Liberya --- Liberyah --- Liberyi︠a︡ --- Libiliya --- Libirya --- Liveria --- Lýðveldið Líbería --- Pobblaght ny Laibeer --- Poblachd Libèiria --- Reppubliek Liberië --- Repubblica di Liberia --- Republic of Liberia --- Republica de Liberia --- Republiek Liberia --- Republiek van Liberië --- Republik Liberia --- Republika Liberii︠a︡ --- Republika Liberija --- Republiḳat Liberyah --- Republíki ya Liberia --- République du Liberia --- Riberia --- Riberia Kyōwakoku --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl Liberia --- Δημοκρατια της Λιβεριας --- Λιβερία --- Република Либерия --- Република Либерија --- Либери --- Либерия --- Либерия республика --- Либерија --- Ліберыя --- רפובליקת ליבריה --- ליבריה --- リベリア --- リベリア共和国 --- 利比里亚 --- Black people --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- Africa. --- Edward Wilmot Blyden. --- black-world intellectuals. --- racial nationalism.