Constructive Engagement II, or Catching the Fourth Wave

tal Africa: How can Africa remain a visible, important issue for citizens of the U.S.? This was in stark contrast to the 1980s, when a wide range of groups and organizations focused upon and fought over the country's relation with ranging from local church, labor, and student groups, to policymakers, lobbyists, and members of Congress in Washington. As the 1980s came to a close, however, a sense of unease appeared: Was Africa permanently falling off the landscape of public engagement and even the policymakers' map? The most dominant response to this worrisome trend has been a series of largely unknown but highly funded efforts to create a new for Africa, often led by African Americans. I argue below that these efforts from above are destined for failure, whether they be targeted at corporations or the broader public. What such efforts miss, or rather cannot engage, is the growing transnationalist political commitment to a trend linked to the rising tide of black nationalism. To seize this opportunity to create a more progressive community for Africa indeed even to perceive this possibility will require both academics and African activists to abandon neo-liberal, corporate and continentalist conceptions and thus most of the constituency building efforts to date. II. The Global and Historical Challenges

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