African homecoming: Pan-African ideology and contested heritage

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.