Books by Tunde Adeleke

Before Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. This study of his life and thought, the first critical biography of the pivotal African American thinker written by a historian argues that Delany reflects the spectrum of the nineteenth-century black independence movement.

Deconstructs Afrocentric essentialism by illuminating and interrogating the problematic situation of Africa as the foundation of a racialized worldwide African Diaspora. Tunde Adeleke attempts to fill an intellectual gap by analysing the contradictions in Afrocentric representations of the continent.