Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editor and contributor biographies -- Global Africans: race, ethnicity and shifting identities -- PART I Shifting identities -- 1 Diaspora intellectuals, alienation and the production of Africa in the Euro-American academy -- 2 Brothers of the trade: a new direction in examining the intersections of racial framing and identity processes upon African-Americans and African immigrants in America -- 3 Paradoxes and contradictions between African Diasporas and resident Africans in the search for an identity: a Nigerian outlook -- 4 Mobile communities of the Indian Ocean: a brief study of Siddi and Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad City, India -- 5 Reinventing the nation in Africa: the political writings of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka -- PART II Ethnicity and African agency -- 6 From brain-drain to brain-gain: interrogating migration, deskilling and return migration in contemporary Nigeria -- 7 Educação e ações afirmativas: redefining multicultural legalisms, justiciability of rights and the (in)clusion of African-descendant peoples in higher education in Brazil -- 8 Back to Africa: Roy Campbell's Voorslag : a magazine of South African life and art and its stand against racial inequality -- 9 'Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen': a discourse analysis of selected Afro-American protest music and their relevance to contemporary issues -- 10 'They were revolutionaries!' Malcolm X and Jomo Kenyatta's Pan-Africanism, 1960-1965 -- PART III Race and populations at stake -- 11 Mutations of slavery: prostitution and women trafficking in contemporary Nigerian novels -- 12 Forging home: local and global intersections in the postconflict reintegration of Liberian returnee refugees -- 13 Eat, speak and play like our ancestors: a case of children from Madagascar in America -- Index