Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race

Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
Author: Edward Wilmot Blyden
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781500172589

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A native of St. Thomas, West Indies, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) lived most of his life on the African continent. He was an accomplished educator, linguist, writer and world traveller, who strongly defended the unique character of Africa and its people. Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race is an essential collection of his writings on race, culture, and the African Personality.

Christanity And The Islam And The Negro Race

Christanity And The Islam And The Negro Race
Author: Edward Blyden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781639230068

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2016 Reprint of 1887 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. As a writer, Blyden is regarded widely as the "Father of Pan-Africanism". His major work, "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race" (1887), promoted the idea that practicing Islam was more unifying and fulfilling for Africans than Christianity. He argues that Christianity was introduced chiefly by European colonizers. He believed it had a demoralizing effect, although he continued to be a Christian. He thought Islam was more authentically African, as it had been brought to sub-Saharan areas by people from North Africa. His book was controversial in Great Britain, both for its subject and because many people at first did not believe that a black African had written it.

Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race

Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
Author: Edward Wilmot Blyden
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2015-02-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781507868430

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Blyden offers an early African-centered perspective on race, religion, and the development of Africa.

Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations

Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations
Author: Harry N. K. Odamtten
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1628953659

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Distinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden’s various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the historical context of Atlantic exchanges, the Back-to-Africa movement, colonialism, and the global Black intellectual movement. In this book Blyden is shown as an African public intellectual who sought to reshape ideas about Africa circulating in the Atlantic world. The author also highlights Blyden’s contributions to different public spheres in Europe, in the Jewish Diaspora, in the Muslim and Christian world of West Africa, and among Blacks in the United States. Additionally, this book places Blyden at the pinnacle of Afropublicanism in order to emphasize his public intellectualism, his rootedness in the African historical experience, and the scholarship he produced about Africa and the African Diaspora. As Blyden is an important contributor to African studies, among other disciplines, this volume makes for critical scholarly reading.

Christanity And The Islam And The Negro Race

Christanity And The Islam And The Negro Race
Author: Edward Blyden
Publisher: Lushena Books Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781639232833

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2016 Reprint of 1887 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. As a writer, Blyden is regarded widely as the "Father of Pan-Africanism". His major work, "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race" (1887), promoted the idea that practicing Islam was more unifying and fulfilling for Africans than Christianity. He argues that Christianity was introduced chiefly by European colonizers. He believed it had a demoralizing effect, although he continued to be a Christian. He thought Islam was more authentically African, as it had been brought to sub-Saharan areas by people from North Africa. His book was controversial in Great Britain, both for its subject and because many people at first did not believe that a black African had written it.