Book Launch: Global Africa

NEW LOCATION: Founders Library, Browsing Room  

Join us for a book launch with Professor Adekeye Adebajo of the University of Pretoria for his new book Global Africa: Profiles in Courage, Creativity and Cruelty (Jacana Press).

About the Book:

This book of essays written over the last three post-apartheid decades uniquely provides profiles of 104 pan-African figures, mostly from the 1.4 billion-strong African population and its estimated 250 million-strong diaspora in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean. It thus provides a concise profile of the most important figures of Africa and its diaspora. [Read more]

Author Bio:

Professor Adekeye Adebajo is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship in South Africa. He was Director of the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg for five years, and Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town between 2003 and 2016, both in South Africa.  He is the author of nine books including Global Africa: Profiles in Courage, Creativity, and Cruelty, and  The Curse of Berlin: Africa after the Cold War. He is the editor of 10 books including The Pan-African Pantheon: Prophets, Poets, and Philosophers; and Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent. Professor Adebajo holds a doctorate from Oxford University in England where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and is a columnist for Project Syndicate (US),  Business Day (South Africa), the Guardian (Nigeria), and the Gleaner (Jamaica).