Tomi Onabanjo

The Sphinx’s Solutions: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Orientalism, and the Regeneration of Africa

Abstract In this article, I examine how the idea of “regeneration” appears in Edward Wilmot Blyden’s canonical work, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (1887). More specifically, I contextualize the saliency of this idea for an Afro-Victorian thinker like Blyden and how he in...