Introduction: Writing Africa into Black Atlantic studies -- Blaise Diagne's cosmopolitanism and views on French colonialism -- W.E.B. Du Bois's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and relations with Blaise Diagne -- Marcus Garvey's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and responses to Blaise Diagne -- Kojo Touvalou-Houénou's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and relations with Marcus Garvey -- Lamine Senghor's cosmopolitanism, anticolonialism, and similarities with Marcus Garvey -- George Padmore's cosmopolitanism and views on French colonialism -- Léopold Sédar Senghor's cosmopolitanism and responses to French colonialism -- Conclusion: Roadblocks to Black cosmopolitanism.