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Title:Afrabia: Africa and the Arabs in the New World Order
Author:Mazrui, Ali A.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Ufahamu
Volume:20
Issue:3
Pages:51-62
Language:English
Geographic terms:Arab countries
Africa
Subjects:culture
New World Order
political unification
international relations
Inter-African Relations
Abstract:This essay examines the possible emergence of AFRABIA - linking languages, religions (particularly Islam), and identities across both the Sahara Desert and the Red Sea in a historical fusion of Arabism and Africanity in the New World Order. A central thesis of the essay is that the Red Sea has no right to divide Africa from Arabia. The Islamization and Arabization of North Africa were cultural countervailing forces trying to outweigh the geological separatism perpetrated by the birth of the Red Sea millennia earlier. Attention is also paid to the need for reconciliation between Arabs and Africans as an answer to the emergence of 'global apartheid', with the white world closing ranks and pan-Europeanism reaching new levels of solidarity. Ref.
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