"Alison Okuda's book is a strikingly rich and methodologically innovative examination of how Ghanaian and Caribbean people in Accra and London conceptualized liberation, crafted shared understandings of home, and used music to forge pan-African solidarities. It breaks new ground for understanding Ghana's postcolonial history and the everyday practices of African-diasporic reconnection." - Nate Plageman, author of Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana "A nuanced and important history of how Ghanaian and Caribbean people made pan-African music in London and Accra and how that music contributed to the legacy of pan-Africanism across the political changes of the post-WWII years. Pan-African Resonance is also a must-read for those interested in the historical context for the contemporary musical forms in which we can hear "pan-African music making."" - Monique A. Bedasse, author of Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization " Pan-African Resonance excavates the cultural solidarities, sonic impulses, and poetics that shaped the geo-social mobility, Black imaginaries, and identity consciousness of the pan-African social movement of the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on methods and developments in ethnomusicology, history, and diasporic African studies, it explores the reminiscences of practitioners and consumers of the plethora of Black musical genres of the period. With the cosmopolitan cities of Accra and London as its center, Pan-African Resonance shows how the itineraries of professionals, musicians, ideologues, and others pursuing global Black freedom and agency were shaped by the social and political exigencies of the Pan-African movement.

Its greatest achievement is that it not only details the soundtracks and rhythms of the independence movements in Africa and the Caribbean, but also broadens the study and praxis of pan-Africanism beyond normative studies in political, philosophical, or religious pan-Africanism into the social realm of the less-studied aesthetics of Pan-Africanism." - Harry N. K. Odamtten, author of Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church.