About the Author
Acknowledgements
Introduction: For the Love of Africa and Public Intellectualism
Chapter 1: President Obama: America Finally Grows Up
Chapter 2: The Republicanization of America: An Africa's Observations on the 2004 US Elections
Chapter 3: The Agony of Zimbabwe
Chapter 4: The Political Wrath of Hurricane Katrina
Chapter 5: The Postcolonial Uprising in France
Chapter 6: Madam President: The Changing Gender Dynamics of African Politics
Chapter 7: Cartoons as Weapons of Mass Provocation
Chapter 8: Angelina Jolie Discovers Africa
Chapter 9: The Arab-Israeli Conflict Revisited: Back to the Madness of War
Chapter 10: Clouds Over the Rainbow Nation: South Africa and the Zuma Saga
Chapter 11: The Power, Possibilities and Perils of African Nationalisms
Chapter 12: Barack Obama and African Diasporas: Dialogues and Dissensions
Chapter 13: In Defence of the New Diasporas and Brain Mobility
Chapter 14: Love, Liews, Wolfowitz, and the World Bank
Chapter 15: The Class of 2007: The Rising Costs of Middle-Class Certification
Chapter 16: Dancing with the Dragon: Africa's Courtship with China
Chapter 17: The Contemporary Relevance of Pan-Africanism
Chapter 18: The 2007 Kenyan Elections: Holding a Nation Hostage to a Bankrupt Political Class
Chapter 19: The Africa Cup of Nations: For the Love of Football and Leisure
Chapter 20: Remembering Martin Luther King: Beyond the Sanitization of a Dreamer
Chapter 21: The Political Wonder That Is Obama
Chapter 22: The Whiteness of Airports
Chapter 23: The Racialized Complexes of Xenophobia
Chapter 24: Africa's Global Summits: The Rise of the Continent or Back to the Scramble?
Chapter 25: The Curse of Oil Returns and the Search for New Energy Futures
Chapter 26: The Dawn of the Obama Era: In Memory of the Ancestors
Chapter 27: Waiting for the Obama Dividend: The Future of Africa-US Relations
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