THE HISTORICAL FIGURES OF THE NEW AFRICAN NOVEMENT, volume one

369pp., paperback, Trenton, 2014

Discusses several prominent members of the New African Movement: Mazisi Kunene, Bernard Makhosozwe Magubane, Ernest Mancoba, Nontsizi Mgqwetho and Ezekiel Mphahlele. The New African Movement consisted of writers, political and religious leaders, artists, teachers, scientists who called themselves New Africans, to distinguish themselves from the Old Africans since they were engaged with creating a new African modernity rather than finding consolation in the old ways of traditional societies.

Ntongela Masilela is Professor Emeritus of English and World Literature and Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies at Pitzer College, California. From 1995 to 2008 he was Adjunct Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California in Irvine. He recently relocated from Los Angeles to Bangkok, Thailand.