Black Folk Then & Now:An Inquiry Into The Past Which Africa Has Played In World History. A Foundational Text in Pan-Africanist by W.E.B. Du Bois, First Edition 1947

W E. B. Du Bois

First Edition

[African American] Black Folk Then & Now:An Inquiry Into The Past Which Africa Has Played In World History. New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. 276 pages. Hardcover original cloth binding in publisher's dust jacket. 8vo. Written by the "father of pan-Africanism" only two years after his final appearance as an organizer and theorist of the Pan-African Congress, this book explores Africa's role in world history and the creation of the modern world. In this book, Du Bois, a pioneering historian and sociologist, as well as a founding member of the NAACP, takes aim at then-contemporary European scholarship on Africa. Responding to a tradition which viewed Africa as "primitive" and "backwards", Du Bois reinstated Africa's central place in world history as post-war independence sentiments were beginning to rumble under African soil. Rather than a history of Africa alone, this book stands out as a landmark study which upended the western understanding of the African continent. Not priced clipped, very light wear to dust jacket. Overall very good condition. The World and Africa remains a central work in Du Bois' canon as well a foundational text in pan-Africanist thought written at the eve of the decolonization period.

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