by Akombo Katembo Shockley (Author)
Uwenzi: The Pan-African Factor, a twenty-first-century view, seeks to facilitate a much-needed and provocative twenty-first-century dialogue on optimizing black networking and cultural appreciation across regions and continents, i.e., the Pan-African Factor (or more commonly, Pan-Africanism). As a focus point, the book posits and explains the need and rationale for Africa and its diaspora to become reciprocal resources for each other. Selected impediments to Pan-African initiatives and development such as tribalism are outlined and critiqued; associated corrective tools to these impediments-for example, resource management/analysis, transformative education, conflict resolution efforts and other strategies-are also discussed.