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Ere Roosevelt Came : The Adventures of the Man in the Cloak - A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s, Paperback / softback Book

Ere Roosevelt Came : The Adventures of the Man in the Cloak - A Pan-African Novel of the Global 1930s Paperback / softback

Edited by Marina Bilbija, Alex Lubin

Part of the Black Critique series

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'A compelling addition to the canon of Pan-African creative writing from the 1930s' Stephanie Newell, Professor, Yale UniversityEre Roosevelt Came is a short novel by early Pan-Africanist Duse Mohamed Ali. Originally serialized in Ali's Nigerian magazine The Comet in 1934, it grapples with the rise of global fascism and white supremacy, and the growing geopolitical influence of the USA in the interwar period. This is a fantastical, intricately woven and speculative story about how Black American airmen, organizing in secret, fight an international assemblage of white supremacists and Russian foreign agents bent on instigating a new world war.

The narrative reveals how Black liberation struggles, Bolshevism, and the rise of so-called 'colored' Japanese empires were bound together in the Pan-African literary imaginary. Written by a Sudanese-Egyptian, serialized in a West African magazine, and set in the USA, Ere Roosevelt Came is a Pan-African novel par excellence, and a fascinating historical document that conveys the complexities of Black internationalism in the interwar years. The novel is presented with two original, contextualizing essays and appendices featuring selected other writings to provide further insight into Ali's vision of a Pan-African future.

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