Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why global Africa? / Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield -- Profile-Ibn Khaldoun: the father of the social sciences / Oludamini Ogumaike -- Trade and travel in Africa's global golden age (AD 700-1500) / Fran�cois-Xavier Fauvelle -- Three women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie / E. Ann McDougall -- Afro-Iberians in the early Spanish empire, ca. 1550-1600 / Leo J. Garofalo -- "From the land of Angola": slavery, marriage, and African diasporic identities in Mexico City before 1650 / Frank Trey Proctor III -- "Ethiopia shall stretch":from America to Africa: the pan-African crusade of Charles Morris / Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson -- Profile, Leymah Gbowee: speaking truth to power / Pamela Scully -- Pan-Africanism: an ideology and a movement / Hakim Adi -- Mwalimu Nyerere as global conscience / Chambi Chachage -- Power, conflict, and justice in Africa: an uncertain march / Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa -- Where truth, lies, and privilege meet poverty, what is hope?: reflecting on the gains and pains of South Africa's TRC / Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande -- Commerce, crime, and corruption: illicit financial flows from Africa / Masimba Tafirenyika -- Working history: China, Africa, and globalization / Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan -- The radicalization of environmental justice in South Africa / Jacklyn Cock -- Profile: a taste of Africa in Harlem, Red Rooster / Judith A. Byfield -- Networks of threads: Africa, textiles, and routes of exchange / Victoria Rovine -- Sending forth the best: African missions in China / Heidi �stb� Haugen -- Photo essay: Baohan Street, an African community in Guangzhou, China / Michaela Pelican and Li Dong -- The African literary tradition: an interview with Ng�ug�i wa Thiong'o / Mukoma wa Ngugi -- African soccer's global story / Peter Alegi -- Art, identity, and autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi / Christa Clarke -- Ra�i and Rap: globalization and the soundtrack of youth resistance in North Africa / Zakia Salime -- Profile: a conversation with microbiologist, Dr. Sara Eyangoh / Tamara Giles-Vernick -- The politics, perils, and possibilities of epidemics in Africa / Douglas Webb -- Generative technologies from Africa / Ron English -- "Money in your hand": M-PESA and mobile money in Kenya / Dillon Mahoney -- What's in your cell phone? / James H. Smith -- Bioprospecting: moving beyond benefit sharing / Rachel Wynberg -- Of waste and revolutions: environmental legacies of authoritarianism in Tunisia / Siad Darwish -- Profile: Africa calling, a conversation with Mo Ibrahim / Stuart Reid -- From Lesotho to the United Nations: the journey of a gender justice advocate / Keiso Matashane-Marite -- Meschac Gaba: museum of contemporary African art / Kerryn Greenberg -- Africa in Nollywood: Nollywood in Africa / Onookome Okome -- Globalizing African Islam from below: west African Sufi masters in the United States / Cheikh Anta Babou -- Afropolitanism and its discontents / Obadias Ndaba -- Photo essay: Awra Amba, a model "Utopian" community in Ethiopia / Salem Mekuria.

"Global Africa will complicate conventional views of Africa as a place of violence, despair and victimhood--a place and space that other people, states, and organizations act on and steal from. Instead, they aim to document some of the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made in the world--not just in the United States, but in South Asia, Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. They will showcase new framings of Africa, but will not romanticize the conditions and circumstances in which too many people on the continent currently live. The essays in this volume will amplify those voices that offer complex and insightful explanations, strategies for solutions, and inspiration for the future."--Provided by publisher.