Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Confronting the past
  • Introduction: African diasporic homecoming and the ambivalence of belonging
  • The layout of an ideology : claiming the African heritage in early Pan-Africanism
  • Early connections : Pan-Africanism and Ghana's Independence
  • History cast in stone : representing the slave trade at Ghana's forts and castles
  • Confronting the past : touring Cape Coast castle
  • Pilgrimage tourism : homecoming as a spiritual journey
  • Emancipation day : a route to understanding homecoming
  • "The re-emergence of African civilization : uniting the African family" : claiming a common heritage in PANAFEST
  • Pan-Africanism as a resource : contested relationships of belonging in the practice of homecoming.