Call for book chapters: Transnational Africanisms in Communication: Diasporic Epistemologies and Afrocentric Ways of Knowing Across the Black Diaspora. Deadline: Chapter proposal by 1 November 2026.
Book to be edited by:
Nickesia S. Gordon (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Kehbuma Langmia (Howard University)
Afrocentric communication theory gave the discipline a durable vocabulary for African ways of knowing. Molefi Kete Asante’s concept of nommo, the generative, world-making force of the spoken word, and Ama Mazama’s articulation of the Afrocentric paradigm established that communication could be theorized from an African center rather than measured against a Western monolith. This handbook seeks to build directly on that foundation.
As such, the editors aim to extend the Afrocentric project outward, that is, to follow African epistemologies as they traveled into Lusophone (Portuguese), Hispanophone, and Francophone worlds and into the often-overlooked African diaspora of the Indian Ocean.
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