3.2 Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 0.1 Why Global Africa? 1
6. Part I . Entangled Histories
7. 1.1 PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences 7
8. 1.2 Trade and Travel in Africa’s Global Golden Age (AD 700–1500) 17
9. 1.3 Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie 27
10. 1.4 Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550–1600 39
11. 1.5 “From the Land of Angola”: Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650 49
12. 1.6 “Ethiopia Shall Stretch” from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris 59
13. 1.7 Africans in India, Past and Present 71
14. Part II. Power and Its Challenges
15. 2.1 PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power 81
16. 2.2 Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement 90
17. 2.3 Mwalimu Nyerere as a Global Conscience 100
18. 2.4 Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March 109
19. 2.5 Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa’s TRC 121
20. 2.6 Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa 130
21. 2.7 Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization 141
22. 2.8 The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa 153
23. Part III. Circulations of Communities and Cultures
24. 3.1 PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster 163
25. 3.2 Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange 170
26. 3.3 Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China 183
27. 3.4 PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China 193
28. 3.5 The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 202
29. 3.6 African Soccer’s Global Story 210
30. 3.7 Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi 221
31. 3.8 Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa 237
32. Part IV. Science, Technology, and Health
33. 4.1 PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh 247
34. 4.2 The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa 259
35. 4.3 Generative Technologies from Africa 270
36. 4.4 “Money in Your Hand”: M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya 280
37. 4.5 What’s in Your Cell Phone? 289
38. 4.6 Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing 298
39. 4.7 Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia 308
40. Part V. Africa in the World Today
41. 5.1 PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim 319
42. 5.2 From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate 329
43. 5.3 Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art 338
44. 5.4 Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa 347
45. 5.5 Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States 356
46. 5.6 Afropolitanism and Its Discontents 366
47. 5.7 PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model “Utopian” Community in Ethiopia 376
48. About the Editors 383
49. Index 385