The History of Literary Pan-Africanism

Scholars have explored literary Pan-Africanism's possibilities and manifestations in literature, aesthetic movements, literary criticism, literary history, socio-political thought, and historical analysis representing diverse regions of Africa and the Diaspora. This chapter represents an expansion of the earlier literary Pan-Africanism lens' attention singularly to African writers who created African American characters. Aside from a few dissertations and shorter works, most essays that feature literary Pan-Africanism do not cite more than one source or core work on the topic or provide a literature review of the history of literary Pan-Africanism. Even though this overview is restricted to works that explicitly advance literary Pan-Africanism, there are numerous adjacent studies that also survey "Pan-African literary" efforts or "Pan-African literature".