Africa as con/tested refuge for African Americans: revisiting the "Back-to-Africa" rhetorics in twenty-first century Africa

Apart from the few Black figures (W.E.B. Dubois, Henry McNeal Turner, and Marcus Garvey), who traveled to, lived in, or sought to visit Africa, communication and rhetoric scholars have not vigorously studied the new refuge experiences of the African Americans in Africa. This oversight, an emphasis o...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 241 - 259
Main Author Ogunfeyimi, Adedoyin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 03.04.2025
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African American
African/Black rhetoric
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Summary:Apart from the few Black figures (W.E.B. Dubois, Henry McNeal Turner, and Marcus Garvey), who traveled to, lived in, or sought to visit Africa, communication and rhetoric scholars have not vigorously studied the new refuge experiences of the African Americans in Africa. This oversight, an emphasis on the Black movement leaders, also excludes the specific experiences of everyday African Americans in Africa. This article centers Africa as the alternative site for studying African American refuge experiences. In doing so, it relocates refuge from the common sites of wars/ conflicts, borders, and refugee camps to cross-culturally friendly but also contested meeting sites between Africans and African Americans in Africa.
ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2025.2503819