Chinweizu

Chinweizu is an anti-Continentalism Pan-Africanist, as well as a historian. He is writing a seven-volume book titled A Maafa-centric History of Pan-Africanism, 1440-2015. His books include, The West and the Rest of Us (1975); Decolonising the African Mind (1987); Voices from 20th-Century Africa (1988); Anatomy of Female Power(1990); Caliphate Colonialism: The Taproot of the Trouble with Nigeria(2015).

He is a co-author of Towards the Decolonization of African Literature(1980) and a contributor to Volume 8 of the Unesco General History of Africa, (1993). His volume of poetry, Invocations and Admonitions, won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) poetry prize for 1985. He received a 2013 Silverbird Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to African Letters.