Description: Preface Letter Foreword: Presence AfricaineIntroduction Pt. 1 - Text and Context 1. Presence Africaine: Geography of an "Ideology" 2. Conjugating Cultural Realities: Presence Africaine 3. Out of Africa! Should We De Done with Africanism? Pt. 2 - The Question of an African History 4. Presence Africaine: History and Historians of Africa 5. Presence Africaine as Historiography: Historicity of Societies and Specificity of Black African Culture 6. The Shadow of Cheikh Anta Diop 7. Myth, Epic, and African History Pt. 3 - Alienation, Voices, and Writing 8. Alienation and Disalienation: Themes of Yesterday, Promises of Tomorrow 9. Presence Africaine: A Voice in the Wilderness, a Record of Black Kinship 10. Harlem Renaissance and Africa: An Ambiguous Adventure 11. If the Dead Could Only Speak! Reflections on Texts by Niger, Hughes, and Fodeba 12. In Praise of Alienation Pt. 4 - Philosophy and the Practice of Everyday Life 13. Inventing an African Practice in Philosophy: Epistemological Issues 14. Recapturing 15. French Marxist Anthropology of the 1960s and African Studies: Outline for an Appraisal 16. Practical Ideology and Ideological Practice: On African Episteme and Marxian Problematic--Ilparakuyo Maasai Transformations 17. Formulating Modern Thought in African Languages: Some Theoretical Considerations 18. The African University: Evaluation and Perspectives 19. Daily Life in Black Africa: Elements for a Critique Pt. 5 - A Dialogue on Presence Africaine 20. Historic Witnesses 21. Analysts Pt. 6 - Conclusions 22. The Politics of "Othering": A Discussion The Word Delivered A Question of Taste On Speaking and Hearing: Toward a Free and Liberating Discourse Alioune Diop and the Unfinished Temple of Knowledge 23. Finale Contributors Index

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