
Edward Onaci, "Free The Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State" (UNC Press, 2020)
New Books in African American Studies
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How New African Political Science Manifested Itself Through Family, Education, and Lifestyle Politics
Lifestyle politics is basically people's attempts to live out their political ideals. And for people who are pursuing independence and statehood, they started to make decisions based on what they thought was in line with those alternate goals. People like Chokwe LeMumba would argue that they're, they actually didn't commit crimes. It's time to start charging the state with crimes. In terms of families, I mean, we talked about names a little bit, that was an important part of it. For new Africans, QANSA wasn't just, you know, Black Christmas or an alternative to European holidays. It was a way to begin transforming individuals so that they would be truly independent
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