N/A "Ron Walters has had a most unusual depth and breadth of experience with and exposure to the richness, complexity, and significance of the idea of Africa among her peoples throughout the world, as well as her adversaries. In this book he reveals and extols the continuing vitality the African spirit has in influencing the culture, politics, and sense of destiny and identity of nearly a sixth of the world's people. No one can understand our times without grasping this reality."―Willard R. Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Mit "Ron Walters has had a most unusual depth and breadth of experience with and exposure to the richness, complexity, and significance of the idea of Africa among her peoples throughout the world, as well as her adversaries. In this book he reveals and extols the continuing vitality the African spirit has in influencing the culture, politics, and sense of destiny and identity of nearly a sixth of the world's people. No one can understand our times without grasping this reality."—Willard R. Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Mit Based on original materials gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews and empirical field research, and text studies Pan-African organizations and their political activities inside black communities. Ronald W. Walters, a Professor of Afro-American Studies, Government and Politics and Senior Fellow at the Center for Political Leadership, University of Maryland, received his Ph.D. from American University. His books include Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign and Black Presidential Politics in America, winner of the Ralph Bunche Prize and the W. E. B. DuBois Award. Used Book in Good Condition