… And Bid Him Sing is a novel by David Graham Du Bois, published in 1975, through which the author reflects on his experience as an African-American intellectual in self-imposed exile in 1960s Cairo, Egypt. …And Bid Him Sing presents a confluence of harmonious and dissonant modalities of Blackness articulated and (re)defined by shifting political currents beyond the Atlantic. While Egypt, post-Nasser, was undergoing a shift in its political and economic identity, the Black Power movement was also negotiating and rearticulating its political identity, as in the case of the Black Panther Party. From Oakland, California, David Du Bois chronicled different modalities of Blackness through a triadic literary expression using fiction, history, and autobiography to represent and dramatize the Black American lived experience within the confines of imperialism in both the center and the periphery. In this article, I show how David Du Bois sets up the novel as a Black diasporic internationalist discursive formation through which he draws the contours of Egyptian and African-American “diasporan consciousness” using different modes of (discursive) representation (Butler, 2001). The novel is a field where space and memory intersect through different modes of representation. While different modes of translation seem to dominate the novel’s literary discourse (Feldman, 2011), I argue that the novel primarily grapples with issues of representation, including questions of displacement, authenticity, roots and routes, language, class, and race. In this novel the Black lived experience and its future are defined through the memory of African-American story of transnational belonging, centering Cairo––a city aptly known as Al-Qahira or “The Conqueror.” David was the stepson of pioneer Black pan-African intellectual and activist-scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois. His sojourn in Cairo marks a metaphoric return to Africa, a place that “functions as the constituting basis of collective [Black] diasporan identity,” (Butler, 2001). Enabled by Nasser’s commitment to a “revolutionary” decolonial Egypt, David Du Bois came to Cairo in 1961, as an imagined diasporic homeland, followed by his mother Shirley Graham Du Bois in 1967. David Du Bois’s approach brings Nasser’s three circles in close proximity to the Black American gaze and dialectics of Blackness in the diaspora. Whether the motivation for David Du Bois’s love for Egypt was real, desired, or imagined, it centered 1964 Egypt in a way that made Cairo become a “metropole for Black internationalism.” (Alhassen, 2015).