“…While historians have demonstrated the importance of Black Power to people of African descent in the US, Britain, and the Anglophone Caribbean, attention to the concept's range among intellectuals and ordinary people in Africa is necessary (Joseph 2006(Joseph , 2009Ogbar 2019;Johnson 2019;Meeks 2009). Fanon Che Wilkins (2007), James Meriwether (2002), Brenda Plummer (2012), and Benjamin Talton (2019) bookend the era of Black Power and African American political engagement with Africans, while Manthia Diawara (2002) and Andrew Ivaska (2011) have illustrated how people in Bamako and Dar es Salaam, respectively, practiced Black Power through their engagement with and appropriation of music, fashion, and concepts of independence.…”