American Africans in Ghana: Black expatriates and the civil rights era

Introduction: Watching the world from Ghana

Mapping the routes to Ghana : black modernity, subjecthood, and demands for full citizenship

Richard Wright in Ghana : black intellectuals and the anticolonial critique of Western culture

Projecting the African personality : Nkrumah, the expatriates, and postindependence Ghana, 1957-1960

Pauli Murray in Ghana : Congo crisis and an African American woman's dilemma

Escape to Ghana : Julian Mayfield and the radical "Afros"

Malcolm X in Ghana

The coup

After Ghana : ways of seeing, ways of being

Epilogue: Memory and the transnational dimensions of African American citizenship.