Adekeye Adebajo is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

SPLENDID TAPESTRY OF AFRICAN LIFE

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: From the Black Atlantic to Global Africa

Part 1: The Black Atlantic: Legacies of Slavery and Imperialism

1. The Role of the Pan-African Intellectual

2. The Pan-African Pantheon: Slavery, Colonialism, and Reparations

3. Pan-Africanism: From Nkrumah to Nollywood

4. Germany's Forgotten Genocide in Namibia

5. Revisiting the Curse of Berlin

6. God Is Not an African

7. Nigeria and South Africa: The Heirs of Rhodes and Lugard

8. Support for Cecil Rhodes by Oxford's Biggar Beggars Belief

9. 'The Natives Are Getting Restless': Western Prophets of Afrophobia

10. Is Africa Hopeless? A Response to Richard Dowden

11. Dead Aid or Brain Dead? A Response to Dambisa Moyo

12. Stephen Ellis's Afrophobia

13. The Rich Tapestry of Afro-Caribbean British Life

14. Requiem for the Monuments Men

15. Revisiting the 2001 Durban Conference Against Racism

16. From Abuja to Durban: Africa's 30-Year Quest for Reparations

17. Unmasking Anglo-Saxon Anti-Reparationists

18. The Global Apartheid of Covid-19

19. Pan-African Lessons for Transforming Humanities Curricula

20. Haiti Hurricane Puts Republic of NGOs' Exploitation in Focus

Part II: Towers of Babel: The Challenges of Regionalism in Africa

21. African Unity at 60: Revisiting the 1963 Addis Ababa Conference

22. The African Union: From Durban to Addis Ababa

23. Not Yet Uhuru: The African Union at 20

24. Of Marabouts and Alchemy: The Kagame Report on AU Reform

25. Kagame versus Adedeji: Debating the African Free Trade Area

26. A Griot's Tale: ECOWAS at 40

27. West Africa's Brexit Moment Could Fuel Regional Turmoil

28. SADC Needs to Overcome Flaws to Benefit Subregion

29. The Spirit of Georgetown: Regionalism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific

30. The Spirit of Bandung: Afro-Asian Co-operation in Global Politics

Part III: Madmen and Specialists: Politics and the Military in Africa

31. Africa at 50: Reversing the Curse of Berlin

32. Africa Is on the Move

33. The Return of Africa's Men on Horseback

34. West Africa's 'Men on Horseback' March onto the National Stage

35. Africa's Sick Presidents

36. Africa's Youth Are on the March Against the Old Order

37. Africa's Five Pillars

38. The Great Lakes of Crocodiles

39. Ending Africa's Thirty Years' War

40. Uganda at 50: Of Coups, Coffee, and Crude Oil

41. Kenya at 50: Not Yet Uhuru?

42. Always Something New out of Africa

43. On the Revolutions in Sudan and Algeria

Part IV: The Eagle and the Springbok: Nigeria and South Africa

44. Nigeria and South Africa: A Shakespearean Drama

45. Nigeria and South Africa Try to 'Reset' Relations

46. The Nigeria-South Africa Palaver

47. On the Xenophobic Attacks against Nigerian Citizens in South Africa

48. The Eagle and the Springbok: Nigeria and South Africa

49. Africa's Hobbled Hegemons

50. The Dangers of Academic Journalism: A Response to Mills Soko

51. Nigeria at 60: From Balewa to Buhari

52. Remembering Biafra

53. Nigeria: In the Burning Ashes

54. Opium for Sale: Buyer Beware!

55. Nigeria's Curious Election

56. Nigeria's Magical Realism

57. Reflections on the Nigerian Election

58. Who's Afraid of Boko Haram?

59. Gulliver's Troubles: The Sad Decline of Nigeria's Foreign Policy

60. The Perils of 'Area Boy Diplomacy'

61. South Africa at 30: Home and Abroad

62. The End of the ANC's Single-Party Rule

63. Three Decades of Pax South Africana

64. Leviathan on the Limpopo: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy

65. South Africa Needs to Embrace an African Identity

66. Peter Fabricius's Civilising Mission

67. South Africa's Native Club Betrays its Public Intellectual Calling

Part V: Pax Africana: Africa's International Relations

68. The Golden Jubilee of Pax Africana

69. Africa's Nobel Peacemakers

70. Tunisia: From Jasmine Revolution to Nobel Peace Prize

71. Ennobling 'Doctor Miracle'

72. Confounding the Coming Anarchists

73. The Last Thing Congo Needs Is These Neo-colonial Remedies: A Response to Paul Collier

74. Rich Man's War, Poor Man's War: Liberia and Bosnia

75. Silencing the Guns in Africa

76. The Crisis of African Peacekeeping

77. 25 Years of Building Peace in Africa: A Personal Odyssey

78. Five Myths of the 2011 Libyan Intervention

79. Western Sahara: Sheikhs, Soldiers, and Sand

80. A Vision for Africa's Post-Ukraine Global Order

81. A Brief History of Africa-EU Relations

82. The Politics of Africa-EU Migration

83. King Lear Rambles about Black Migrants: A Response to RW Johnson

84. Macron's Africa Safari

85. France: The Myth of Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité

86. The US and Africa: Buhari's Sacrilegious Violation of Pax Africana

87. The Strange Case of Reuben Brigety

88. Uncle Sam's 'Dialogue of the Deaf' with Africa

89. Paternal Panda, Dangerous Dragon: Deconstructing Western

Perceptions of China in Africa

90. Putin's Mischief in Africa

91. From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the UN

92. The UN Summit of the Future: What's in it for Africa?

Part VI: Black Orpheus: Pan-African Culture and Film

93. FESTAC: A Cultural Celebration of Africa and its Diaspora

94. Nollywood as a Pan-African Cultural Phenomenon

95. Soyinka's Horseman: Who's Afraid of Elesin Oba?

96. Kalushi: Mahlangu's Moving Martyrdom

97. Africa and Hollywood: A Fatal Attraction

98. Triumph in Tinseltown: Global Africa's Night at the Oscars

99. Harry Belafonte: A Life of Music and Social Activism

100. Selma's Martin Luther King Has No Need of White Saviour

101. Black Panther as Black Therapy

102. James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk

103. Harriet Tubman

104. The Lady Sings the Blues

105. The Woman King

Part VII: Global Africa at Play: Sports and Politics

106. A Brief History of African Football

107. Can Africa Win the World Cup?

108. Did France or Africa Win the World Cup?

109. Super Eagles Crowned African Champions in Act of Poetic Justice

110. The Super Eagles as a Metaphor for Nigeria's Malaise

111. The Genius of Brazilian Football and New Zealand Rugby

112. Africa and its Diaspora Shine at the World Athletics Championships

113. The Tokyo Olympics: Then and Now

114. The Afrolympics

115. The Golden Age of West Indian Cricket

Part VII: African Travelogue: From Lagos to Laayoune

116. Lagos: Africa's Manic Megalopolis 439

117. Abuja: Nigeria's New Imperial Capital

118. Accra and Abidjan: The West African Wager

119. Johannesburg: Observing Apartheid's Funeral

120. Laayoune: Eyes, Spies, and Springs

Part IX: Multilateralism, Geo-Politics, and the World Beyond Africa

121. From Berlin to Bandung: A Tale of Two Conferences

122. 'Chimerica' Will Define the Future of Geo-Politics

123. When Two Elephants Fight: Africa, the Global South, and the New Non-Alignment

124. Africa's Place in the Emerging Global Order

125. The EU at 60: Paradise Lost and Found

126. The UN at 75: Jesus Christ, Mother Teresa, and Adebayo Adedeji

127. Farewell to Arms? UN Peacekeeping at 75

128. UN Remains Toothless Despite Best Intentions to Reform

129. Groundhog Day: Gaza as a Mirror of Iraq and Afghanistan

130. Saddam's Bazaar

131. The G20: Sound and Fury in Hamburg

132. The World Economic Forum: A Self-Important Capitalists' Paradise

Part X: The Anglo-Saxons: Pax Americana and Pax Britannica

133. The American Condition: A Summer Sojourn

134. The Perils of Pax Americana: Chronicle of a Fiasco Foretold

135. Will the US Really Sanction Saudi Arabia?

136. Trump at the United Nations

137. Trump versus the WHO

138. Trump versus Biden: Farewell to All That?

139. Trump versus Biden: The Sequel

140. Kamala Harris: In the Shadow of Barack Obama

141. Tweedledee and Tweedledum: Donald Trump and Boris Johnson

142. Rhodes Was a Colossal Imperialist: A Response to Max Price

143. Britain and the EU: Delusions of Grandeur

144. The G8, Geldof, and Gleneagles: Much Ado about Nothing

145. Mad Cows and Racist Politicians

Notes

Index