The Africa-Diaspora Orbit: Anani Dzidzienyo's Contributions to African/Black Studies and Black Liberation

Drawing on interviews and archival and published materials, Gyamfi reinterprets Anani Dzidzienyo's significance as a Black Studies scholar and activist. Dzidzienyo was a pioneer in academic African diaspora studies who institutionalized the inclusion of Africa and Brazil. For fifty years, Dzidzienyo created Black Studies and Afro-Latin American programs, designed Afro-Brazilian courses that expanded Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, and supported freedom struggles in Africa and Brazil. In so doing, he built a transnational network of scholar-activists and institutions. Yet, for all this, scholars have mostly neglected Dzidzienyo's work and wide influence on multiple fields of study and liberation movements.

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Based on interviews and materials, Gyamfi reinterprets the significance of Anani Dzidzienyo as a Black Studies scholar and activist, who pioneered in African diaspora studies and made significant contributions to academic research and liberation movements.