Alioune Fall is an Assistant Professor of French and Black Studies at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. His research is situated at the intersection of Francophone literatures and cultures and African Studies with a particular interest in decolonial methodologies, postcolonial theory and critical race theory. He currently has two articles under review at Crossings: International Journal of Migration and Culture and Dalhousie French Studies. He is currently working on another article that explores the literary representation of the memory of Black France in David Diop’s Frères d’Ame (2019) and will be published with Yale French Studies. Dr Fall is also working, along with two other colleagues, on the edition of a Senghor Reader. It is a translation of major texts about Negritude which were originally published in French in Senghor’s volumes entitled Libertés.
Introduction The first theoreticians of Pan-Africanism, namely Edward W Blyden, Alexander Crummell, and Martin Delany, etc., conceptualized the movement as a culturalist expression of race[1]. These s…
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