Announcing a new title:

         Godfrey Mwakikagile, Relations Between Africans and African
Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities (Grand Rapids, Michigan:
National Academic Press, 2005), 302 pages, softcover edition, $12.95.
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         This work looks at relations between Africans and African
Americans from the perspective of an African, and of shared perceptions on
both sides of the Atlantic. Incorporated into the analysis are stories of
individuals who have interacted, worked and lived with members of both
groups in Africa and in the United States, including the author himself.
Stereotypes and misunderstandings of each other constitute an integral part
of this study, explained from both perspectives, African and African-American.

         The author, a former journalist in Tanzania and now an academic
author whose books are found in public and university libraries around the
world, has lived in the United States, mostly in the black community, for
more than 30 years. He articulates his position from the vantage point of
someone who has lived on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on a subject
that has generated a lot of interest among Africans and African Americans
through the years. And it continues to be one of great misunderstanding
between the two sides, in spite of increased contacts and communication
between Africa and Black America, and between individual Africans and
African Americans in the United States and in Africa.

         What is the state of relations between Africans and African
Americans? How do Africans see black Americans, and how do black Americans
see them? What is their experience with American blacks and what is the
experience of black Americans with them, individually and collectively, in
general? How are Africans accepted by black people in the United States?
And how are black Americans accepted in Africa? Do Africans see American
blacks as fellow Africans, cousins or distant cousins, or just as Americans?

         These are some of the questions answered in this book, written by
an African, and based on his experience of  more than 30 years interacting
with African Americans, and on the experiences of many Africans and African
Americans quoted in this study:

         Contents:

         Acknowledgments

         Introduction

         Chapter One:
         Enduring Ties Between Africa and the Diaspora

         Chapter Two:
         My Life with African Americans

         Chapter Three:
         The Image of Africa in America

         Chapter Four:
         The Attitude of Africans Towards African Americans

         Chapter Five:
         The Attitude of African Americans Towards Africans

         Chapter Six:
         Misconceptions About Each Other

         Chapter Seven:
         African Americans in Tanzania: Black Panther Leader
         Pete O'Neal and Others

         Chapter Eight:
         Back to the Motherland: Fihankra
         An African-American Settlement in Ghana
         and Other Diasporans

         Appendix:
         What Africans and African Americans
         Think About Their Relations: Voices From Within

         About the Author

         Order the book from lulu.com, the only online seller currently
carrying the title.

         Sincerely,

         Janice Watson
         Pan-African Books


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