The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa: The Challenges of Productive Engagement

Abstract

UNRISD Director Thandika Mkandawire is the editor of this thought-provoking overview of the history, fate and possible future roles of African intellectuals both within Africa and in the African Diaspora nearly half a century on from Independence, in which some of the continent’s most eminent thinkers discuss the issues at stake. This new volume is published by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in association with Zed Books and the University of South Africa Press.

The contributors to this volume take as their starting point the uniquely difficult circumstances confronting intellectuals: regimes intolerant of independent debate, economies in sharp decline, societies