Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

This book has the important element that is missing in most of books and articles on Garvey—a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about. –Dr. John Henrik Clarke Revolutionary Pan-Africanist... Read more »

Modern Africa: A Social and Political History by Basil Davidson

Basil Davidson’s Modern Africa: A Social and Political History. First published in 1983, is a social and political review of Africa’s history from the early years of the twentieth century through to... Read more »

From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls

In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of “color” on the political relationship between the black majority and the mulatto elite during almost two hundred years of... Read more »

3/5 an MC: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper by Wise Intelligent

Where racist caricatures of African Americans once justified evils including slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining and eugenics – stereotypes reinforced by mainstream Hip Hop are used to justify apartheid schooling, segregation, unequal... Read more »

Natives: Race and Class in The Ruins of Empire by Akala

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class... Read more »

Asafo: A Warriors Guide to Manhood by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Asafo is an in-depth Afrikan centered discussion of the requirements of Afrikan manhood. In it, Mwalimu Baruti clearly lays out African sources of power and the tools that must be acquired, mastered... Read more »

RBG: The Ep (Red, Black, Green) by MCE

Experience the Red, Black, and the Green!!!  From Mce’s numinous RBG: The Ep (Red, Black, Green). Read more »

To Educate A People: Thoughts From the Center by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Self-control is a considerable indicator of maturity. In a state of war where close proximity exists between friend and foe, silence can be considered one of the most important of these values.... Read more »

Distorted Truths: The Bastardization of Afrikan Cosmology by S. K. Damani Agyekum

We found out about this book while watching an interview conducted by Brother ShakaRa out of the U.K. with the distinguished elder Sababu Plata. Sababu Plata was the late great Amos Wilson’s... Read more »

Africans in Brazil: A Pan-African Perspective by Abdias Do Nascimento and Elisa Larkin Nascimento

Abdias Do Nascimento and Elisa Larkin Nascimento’s Africans in Brazil: A Pan-African Perspective is a penetrating and dauntless work that correctly highlights the African experience in “Latin” American societies, as well as... Read more »