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Volume 3 • Number 10 • 2010

The proposed next issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies will possibly engage: (1) the placement of African person-hood theory and practice in social welfare programs to access quality cultural development, (2) ways visual representations of contemporary rap music fit into the historical pattern of minstrel performance in America, and it supports or contests the ideals of neo-liberalism, (3) a dialectical appraisal of Niger-Delta politics in Nigeria that interrogates the realist position of the hegemonic, and their departure from idealist diplomacy to a mechanism of ideological manipulation, (4) the notion that perhaps the most vexing problem about reparations for the enslavement of Black people in the Western Hemisphere is 'how to parcel out blame to those directly involved in the capture and sale of human beings for immense economic gain', and by extension there must have been a complex business relationship between African and Europeans elites to made the enslavement of African people in the 'New World' a reality, (5) and a discussion of the University of California Haiti Initiative headquartered at the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, consisting of a system-wide (University of California) collaboration of students, faculty, staff, researchers and alumni contributing their skills and experience toward Haiti's post-earthquake reconstruction (the Center for Black Studies Research has a long-term partnership with Haiti Soleil to establish a library and community center in Port-au-Prince).