A critical study of Edward Wilmot Blyden, whose voluminous writings laid the groundwork for some of the most important African and black diasporic thinkers of the twentieth century.

Introduction
Africa: Service, Suffering, and Subjection
The Critique of Eurocentrism
Ishmael in Africa: Black Protestant Islamophilia
The African American "Civilizing Mission"
The "Mulatto" Nemesis
Appraising the Colonial Enterprise
Epilogue: Post-Blydenian Reflections