Vol 1, No 2 (2000)

Special Issue on Wonders of the African World (Part I)

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A special issue on "Wonders of the African World" documentary from West Africa Review. Both issues offer the most comprehensive and critical analysis on the documentary today. Both issues of Wonders of the African World were later republished by The Black Scholar.

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial Statement
Olufemi Taiwo
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Articles

Preliminary Critique of Gates' African Wonders
Ali A. Mazrui
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Ali Mazrui and Skip Gates' Africa Series
Wole Soyinka
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"Wonders of Africa": A Eurocentric Enterprise
Molefi Kete Asante
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A Preliminary Response to Ali Mazrui's "Preliminary Critique of Wonders of the African World"
Henry Louis Gates
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Black Orientalism?: Further Reflections on Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates
Ali A. Mazrui
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On Mazrui's 'Black Orientalism': A Cautionary Critique
Biodun Jeyifo
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Master of the Intellectual Dodge: A Reply to Henry Louis Gates
Martin Kilson
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The "Wonders of Africa" and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Joseph Inikori
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Deconstructing Gates' Wonders of the African World
Gwendolyn Mikell
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A Millennium Letter to Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Concluding a Dialogue?
Ali A. Mazrui
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My Preliminary Response to "A Preliminary Response to Ali Mazrui's 'Preliminary Critique of Wonders of the African World'"; [A Personal Letter to Gates]
Amechi Okolo
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Conversations with Colleagues: Africanist and Afrocentric Reactions to Wonders of the African World
Jonathan T. Reynolds, Burks Michael, Karen Cudjoe, Michael Washington
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The Travelogue: Wonders of the African World
Omofolabo Ajayi
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Monumentality, Scriptocentrism and Other Mismeasures of Man
Oyekan Owomoyela
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Greatness and Cruelty: Wonders of the African World and the Reconfiguration of Senghorian Negritude
Biodun Jeyifo
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The Gates-Mazrui Clash: Why Mazrui May Have a Case
Eddie D'Sa
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On the Slavery Issue in Wonders of the African World
Gloria Emeagwali
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Critique of Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Vivian Windley
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Wonders of the African Crisis
Biko Agozino
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Wondergates
George Nelson Preston
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The Trouble With You, Ali Mazrui! - Response to Ali's Millennial "Conclusion"
Wole Soyinka
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