USA Africa Dialogue Series - NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OF OFO: JOURNAL OF TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES PUBLISHED

OFO: JOURNAL OF TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

Volume 3 Numbers 1 & 2, (June/Dec.), 2013

 

SPECIAL ISSUE

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

 

GUEST EDITORS

AKINWUMI OGUNDIRAN AND OSCAR DE LA TORRE

 

ARTICLES

-Introduction: Community Engagement and Citizen Empowerment in Africa and the African Diaspora: Case Studies from Nigeria, Brazil, and the US
Akinwumi Ogundiran and Oscar de la Torre 1
 
-The Roots and State of Civil Society in Africa and the Diaspora
Mario Azevedo and Rico D. Chapman 7
 
-Politics, Literature, and Pitching for the Masses in Nigeria
Tanure Ojaide 25
 
-Democracy and Good Governance: Perspectives for Citizens Empowerment in Africa
Olayiwola Abegunrin 37
 
-Influencing Public Opinion in Nigeria: Locating Alternative Social Institutions and Dialogues in the Cyberspace
Kole Odutola 55
 
-Yoruba Traditional Healing Associations: Influence and Prominence
Natalie Jayeola-Washington 73
 
-Community Organizing: Its Historical Roots and the Impact of the Black Panther Party
Jamal Turner 85
 
-Maroon-descendants and Landownership in Brazil: A Road towards Reparations for Slavery?
Oscar de la Torre 101
 
 
BOOK REVIEWS
 
*Jeremy D. Popkin. You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery
Timothy K. Minella123
 
*'Lai Olurode. Editor. Perspectives on Feminism from Africa
Tushabe Wa Tushabe 128
 
*Kate Ramsey. The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
Charlton W. Yingling 131
 
*Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, and Anne Serafin, Eds. African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices Lorna Lueker Zukas 134
 
*Robert Stam and Ella Shohat. Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic
Violeta A. Donawa 139
 
*Biography of Contributors 142

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Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa
Editor, OFO: Journal of Transatlantic Studies
Professor of History & Africana Studies
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

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